Leonardo da Vinci | Quotes / Paintings

• "Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest".

• "La pittura riguarda tutti i 10 attributi della vista; che sono: oscurità, luce, solidità e colore, forma e posizione, distanza e propinquità, movimento e riposo".

• "Learning never exhausts the mind".

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Crouching Boy, 1530

Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian High Renaissance / Mannerist Painter / Sculptor, 1475-1564)

Title: Crouching Boy

Place: Italy. Florence

Date: circa 1530-1534

Material: marble

Dimensions: height: 54 cm

Acquisition date: Entered the Hermitage in 1851; transferred from the Academy of Fine Arts

Claude Monet at the Hermitage Museum

Claude Monet (1840-1926), a leading Impressionist painter is exhibited at the The State Hermitage Museum in Room 403.

The State Hermitage Museum / Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.

Paul de Longpré | Summer fragrance

A famous French and American flower painter, Paul de Longpre (1855-1911) was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter.

It is likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national reputation.

He was born in Lyons, France, where he was a member of the aristocratic, although not wealthy, Maucherat de Longpre family.

Moise Kisling (1891-1953)

Moïse Kisling was a Polish-born French painter.

He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I.

He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946.

Moïse Kisling died in Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on April 29, 1953.

A residential street in the town is named after him.

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.