Eva Gonzalès | Impressionist painter

Eva Gonzalès (1849-1883) was a French Impressionist painter.

She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-95) and Marie Bracquemond (1840-1916).

Gonzalès began her professional training and took lessons in drawing in 1865, from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin, who was also Mary Cassatt's teacher.

Catlin Harrison | Abstract artist

"A Londoner by birth and inclination, the city provides for me a fresh daily helping of eclectic people to watch and wonder about.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the human form, especially meta-figures like ghosts or dolls or archetypes.

Sometimes I think my work stems from a collectors' sensibility - particularly those Victorian do-gooders who pinned butterflies or measured skulls.

Each piece of work is an independent specimen, a set of examples of a particular type.

Presence, oddity, beauty and humour are important elements in all my work, as is colour and aesthetics'.

Antonio Canova | Drawing

Antonio Canova (1757-1822) used graphic drawings as the essential foundation for his Neoclassical marble masterpieces.

His sketches acted as a direct window into his creative process, transitioning from rapid, emotional thoughts into highly calculated, geometric structures.

Unlike his highly polished marbles, his initial sketches features rapid, loose, and gestural ink strokes.

He heavily used charcoal wash and cross-hatching to map out how light would fall on the three-dimensional stone surface.

Tony Chow, 1974 | Figurative painter

Born in Taipei, Tawain, Chinese painter Tony Chow was obvious that he showed an appreciation for the masters.

At the age of 11, Tony’s interest sprang a dedication to express his talents on canvas as well as an understanding to the motives behind such masterpieces.

Tony came to the United Stated in 1995.

He received a B.A. in Fine Art from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 2000.

From here, his interest and talents developed into a unique style all his own.

Brent Heighton, 1954 | Romantic painter

Canadian painter Brent Heighton has been a professional artist for over 40 years.

His career in fine arts has allowed him to travel throughout the world in search of adventure and subjects to paint.

He is an explorer by nature, constantly trying out innovative techniques.

He paints with intensity and economy, rarely wasting a motion or brush stroke, and is often called upon to give instruction in the art of painting.

Brent Heighton’s watercolors, oils and acrylics have won many awards and are found in corporate and private collections in more than 25 countries.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Flamenco Dancers

Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists.

His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.

Bruno Catalano, 1960 | Lo scultore dei viaggiatori

Bruno Catalano è uno scultore Franco-Italiano di fama internazionale, celebre per la serie di sculture in bronzo intitolata "Les Voyageurs" (I Viaggiatori).

Catalano è nato a Khouribga, Marocco.

La sua vita è stata segnata da un profondo senso di sradicamento: all'età di 15 anni fu costretto all'esilio dal Marocco insieme alla sua famiglia, sbarcando a Marsiglia con la speranza di una nuova vita.

Prima di dedicarsi interamente all'arte a 30 anni, ha lavorato come marinaio ed elettricista.

Influenzato da maestri come Rodin, Giacometti e César, ha sviluppato una tecnica unica che gli permette di creare figure umane con ampie porzioni del corpo mancanti, sfidando apparentemente le leggi della fisica.

Michelangelo | Cappella Paolina, Vaticano

The Cappella Paolina (the Pauline Chapel) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

It is separated from the Sistine Chapel by the Sala Regia.

It is not on any of the regular tourist itineraries.

Michelangelo's two frescoes in the Cappella Paolina, The Conversion of Saul and The Crucifixion of St Peter were painted from 1542 to 1549, the height of his fame, but were widely viewed as disappointments and even failures by their contemporary audience.

Michelangelo's Crucifixion of Saint Peter

Claude Monet | The Rue Montorgueil, 1878

The Rue Montorgueil, Paris was painted by Claude Monet (1840-1926) on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating "peace and work".

This was one of the events organised for the third Universal Exhibition in Paris a few weeks after it opened, and intended to be a symbol of France’s recovery after the defeat of 1870.