Michal Lukasiewicz, 1974 | Pop portrait painter

Michal Lukasiewicz was born in Pulawy, Poland and since 1995 lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium.

"My paintings are of the human form, the soft tenderness that it can transfer to the viewer; never the anger of the world but the peace and harmony that humans are capable of.

I have been influenced by living in Belgium and painters of the Benelux countries and I try to show the placid side of the subject using light, the reflection of light and the shadows to emphasise the subjects form and curves".

Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Rococo painter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes and history painting.

Greuze studied first at Lyon and afterward at the Royal Academy in Paris.

He first exhibited at the Salon of 1755 and won an immediate success with his moralizing genre painting of Father Reading the Bible to His Children (1755).

Il mondo magico di Amy Brown, 1972

L'artista del Pacifico nord-occidentale Amy Brown è nata a Bellingham, Washington nel 1972.

Amy Brown crea arte fantasy ad acquerello da oltre 30 anni.

Amy Brown ha iniziato a dipingere fate nel 1992. Le fate le avevano sempre interessate, ma non le aveva mai considerate come un'opzione di carriera.

Da bambina, il suo interesse per le fate è sorto quando è stata introdotta alle opere di Arthur Rackham, Brian Froud ed Alan Lee.

Film come The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth e Legend hanno avuto un ruolo importante nello sviluppo dell'amore della Brown per i racconti fantastici e le creature mistiche.

Pietro Perugino | The Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece, 1496-1500

Pietro Perugino (Italian Early Renaissance painter, ca.1445-1523) painted this altarpiece for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza.

It stood in the side chapel dedicated to the Archangel Michael in the Carthusian monastery (also known as a charterhouse or certosa) in Pavia, a town outside Milan.

The Duke was captured by invading French forces in 1499, and the altarpiece was completed in the early sixteenth century by two other painters: Fra Bartolommeo and Mariotto Albertinelli.

Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont | Allegories of the Four Seasons

Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont | Autumn from Allegories of the Four Seasons

Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont (19 January 1693, Versailles - 16 February 1761, Paris) was a French painter🎨.

He was born into a prosperous family: his father was a teacher and engineer, and his brother François Collin de Blamont (1690-1760) was Surintendant de la Musique de la Chambre.

Collin de Vermont was a pupil of Jean Jouvenet and Hyacinthe Rigaud.

In 1715 Collin came second in the Prix de Rome competition with the Gratitude of the People towards Judith (untraced).

Edwin Austin Abbey | Pre-Raphaelite painter / Illustrator

Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter🎨 and one of the foremost illustrators of his day.

While working as an illustrator for the publishing house of Harper and Brothers, New York City, Abbey began to create illustrations for the poems of Robert Herrick in 1874.

He went on to create illustrations for some of the works of Oliver Goldsmith and William Shakespeare🎨.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter.

In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.

During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work.

As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes.

In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work.

Throughout the course of his life, Bouguereau executed 822 known finished paintings, although the whereabouts of many are still unknown.

Edgar Degas: "People call me the painter of dancing girls.."

• "Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".

• "Bisogna rifare dieci volte, cento volte lo stesso soggetto. Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso".