Antonio Basoli's Architectural Alphabet

Antonio Basoli (1774-1848) was an Italian painter, interior designer, scenic designer, and engraver, active mostly in Bologna.

His first teacher was his father, Lelio Andrea Basoli.

His education was motivated by an insatiable and constant interest in classic art, classic and contemporary literature, and the works, decorations and inscriptions of Piranesi.

Chien Chung-Wei 簡忠威, 1968 | Impressionist Watercolor painter

Chien Chung-Wei 簡忠威 is the first artist in Taiwan to become a signature member and Dolphin Fellowship of the American Watercolor Society.

Chien Chung-Wei aimed to be a painter at age 10.

He earned the master degree in Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University and was selected as one of the 30 painters in One Hundred Years of Watercolor in Taiwan in 2009.

In 2010, he set up the world’s first live demonstration teaching system in Chung-Wei Chien’s Art Studio for teaching watercolor.

Robert Finale | Romantic scenery painter

Cuban painter Robert Finale is no stranger to struggles and adversity.

At the tender age of two, he along with his family fled the communist ruled country of Cuba for a life of freedom and opportunity in the United States.

Here Robert learned the value of hard work and discipline and realized his potential to pursue his passion for art.

This passion, Finale explains, began very early in life.

Shawn Mackey, 1984 | Abstract expressionist painter

Shawn Mackey was born in Edmonton, Canada.

Growing up in the long cold winters of Canada, he had ample time to draw and let his creativity flourish.

Mackey’s parents, who were both teachers, would bring home boxes of scrap photocopy paper for him to draw on.

He would cover hundreds of sheets with pictures of everything from Italian sports cars, to the elaborate floor plans of luxury mansions, to a variety of superheroes and cartoon characters pulled from his own imagination.

Pietro Magni | The Reading Girl / La Lettrice, 1856

Pietro Magni's marble statue The Reading Girl brought the Milanese sculptor international fame and recognition.

It was exhibited numerous times at international exhibitions throughout Europe and America, each time to great public and critical acclaim.

Stylistically it owes much to the artistic tradition of verismo or "realism" that characterized Italian art during the middle years of the nineteenth century, but it also recalls earlier aspects of Italian romanticism.

Amedeo Modigliani: "Happiness is an angel with a serious face"

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

Quando conoscerò la tua anima, dipingerò i tuoi occhi.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Il tuo unico dovere è salvare i tuoi sogni.

Luca Postiglione | Genre painter

Luca Postiglione (Naples, 1876-1936) was an Italian painter, mainly of portraits, historic and genre subjects, in a Realist style.

Luca Postiglione was born in a family of painters. He was the son of the painter Luigi Postiglione.

His uncle, Salvatore Postiglione (1861-1906) was also a painter and his teacher.

Giovanni Panza | Impressionist /Genre painter

Giovanni Panza (1894-1989) was an Italian painter.

Born into a family of poets and painters, he was the nephew of Salvatore Postiglione and Luca Postiglione, sons of the painter Raphael Postiglione, who introduced him to painting.