Piero della Francesca | The History of the True Cross, 1466

The History of the True Cross or The Legend of the True Cross is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo.

It is his largest work, and generally considered one of his finest, and an early Renaissance masterpiece.

Its theme, derived from the popular 13th century book on the lives of saints by Jacopo da Varagine, the Golden Legend, is the triumph of the True Cross - the legend of the wood from the Garden of Eden becoming the Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

Melozzo da Forlì | Musician angels / Gli Angeli musicanti, 1480

The 14 fragments with the Apostles and Angel musicians (these too exhibited in room IV) together with the figure of Christ, (now in the Quirinal Palace) were part of the old decoration of the apse of the Church of the SS. Apostoli in Rome illustrating the Ascension of Christ.

The fresco, which was destroyed in 1711, was painted by Melozzo da Forlì ⏭ around 1480, shortly after the works of restoration on the church for cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (pontiff from 1503-1513).

Alfred Sisley | Impressionist / Plein Air painter

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship.
He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en Plein Air. He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing.

Jagannath Paul, 1976 | Abstract Figurative painter

Born in West Bengal, Jagannath Paul is a Mumbai based artist.The varied nuances of male and female relationship are manifested into his paintings through the medium of charcoals and colors on paper and canvas.

He uses colours to depict relationships in different moods and emotions.

Jagannath Paul has graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata 2000 with 1st class 1st. He has won many prestigious awards🎨.

Annibale Carracci | Contrast with Caravaggio

The tradition of Italian Renaissance painting and the mature Renaissance artists like Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Titian and Veronese are all painters who had a considerable influence on the work of the Carracci, in his use of colours.

Carracci laid the foundations for the birth of Baroque painting.

Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter

Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style ⎆. Together with his cousin Ludovico (1555-1619) and his older brother Agostino (1557-1602) -each an outstanding artist- Annibale set out to transform Italian painting ⎆.

The Carracci rejected the artificiality of Mannerist painting ⎆, championing a return to nature coupled with the study of the great northern Italian painters of the Renaissance ⎆, especially Correggio ⎆, Titian ⎆ and Veronese ⎆.

Nikolaos Gyzis / Νικόλαος Γύζης | Genre painter

Nikolaos Gyzis /Νικόλαος Γύζης (1 March 1842 - 4 January 1901) was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting.

It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928.

He was the major representative of the so-called "Munich School", the major 19th-century Greek art movement.

Venus de Milo

This graceful statue of a goddess has intrigued and fascinated since its discovery on the island of Melos in 1820.

Is it Aphrodite, who was often portrayed half-naked, or the sea goddess Amphitrite, who was venerated on Melos?

The statue reflects sculptural research during the late Hellenistic Period: classical in essence, with innovatory features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips.