Marc Chagall: "Un quadro deve fiorire come qualcosa di vivo"

• "I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working".

• "I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more".

Marc Chagall: "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand"

• "I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors".

• "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand".

Egisto Lancerotto | Genre painter

Egisto Lancerotto (August 21, 1847 - May 31, 1916) was an Italian painter**, mainly of genre scenes of Venice.

He was born in Noale. His father, a bureaucrat in that town, was transferred to Venice when Egisto was young. Lancerotto attended the Venetian Accademia di Belle Arti, where his professors were Napoleone Nani, Michelangelo Grigoletti, Federico Moja and Pompeo Marino Molmenti. The latter was likely his strongest influence.

Carmen Giraldez, 1976 | Conceptual painter

Carmen Giraldez was born in Barcelona, Spain.

Carmen acquired her interest in art, and especially painting, from her father who is an avid collector and also a painter.

Her early childhood training was “at his knees” as she likes to say.

Irish Art History and Sitemap

The history of Irish art starts around 3200 BC with Neolithic stone carvings at the Newgrange megalithic tomb, part of the Brú na Bóinne complex which still stands today, County Meath.

In early-Bronze Age Ireland there is evidence of Beaker culture and a widespread metalworking.

Trade-links with Britain and Northern Europe introduced La Tène culture and Celtic art to Ireland by about 300 BC, but while these styles later changed or disappeared under the Roman subjugation, Ireland was left alone to develop Celtic designs: notably Celtic crosses, spiral designs, and the intricate interlaced patterns of Celtic knotwork.

Phoebe Anna Traquair | Arts and Crafts Movement painter

Toshio Ebine 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter

Japanese painter Toshio Ebine** creates vast, windswept scenes full of balloons, lone animals, and a sense of odd foreboding in what should, by rights, be sweet illustrations for children's books.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Ebine see:

• Toshio Ebine / 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter ⏭

Paris Bordone | High Renaissance painter

Paris Bordóne, in full Paris Paschalinus Bordone, Bordone also spelled Bordon, (born c. 1500, Treviso, Republic of Venice [Italy] - died Jan. 19, 1571, Venice), Renaissance Venetian painter of religious, mythological, and anecdotal subjects. He is perhaps best known for his striking sexualized paintings of women.

After his father’s death, Bordone moved with his mother to Venice. He probably became a pupil of Titian about 1516 but remained in his workshop for under two years.

José de Ribera | Baroque Era painter

José de Ribera** (1591-1652) was born in Spain, at Játiva near Valencia, and probably received his training there under Francisco Ribalta.

He moved soon afterwards to Italy and following a period in Rome settled in Naples in 1616.

Ribera became well known for the realism of his treatment of violent subjects such as 'The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew' and 'The Flaying of Marsyas' (Pitti, Florence, and Museo di San Martino, Naples, respectively), but he also painted genre scenes and religious subjects in a refined classical mode characterised by a rich palette.| © The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

Luca Giordano | Court painter in Spain, 1692-1702

Luca Giordano** (1634-1705) was the leading Neapolitan painter of the later 17th century.

He was born in Naples and was trained by Ribera.

He was known as Fa Presto ('does it quickly') because of his speed of painting. His work influenced developments in 18th century art in Naples and elsewhere in Italy.

His style was formed by his experience of Neapolitan art (dominated by the work of Caravaggio), and by his knowledge of the leading Roman painters of the early 17th century notably Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, and the great Venetian artists of the 16th century.