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Lorenzo Lotto | High Renaissance painter

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Lorenzo Lotto, (born c. 1480, Venice [Italy]-died 1556, Loreto, Papal States), late Renaissance Italian painter* known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects. He represents one of the best examples of the fruitful relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian (Marche) schools.

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Lord Frederic Leighton, P. R. A. | Cymon and Iphigenia, 1884

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Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA *. The painting does not bear a date but was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1884. The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, purchased it at a Christie's auction in London in 1976.
  • Background
According to a story published in 1897, Leighton spent six months searching throughout Europe for a model to match his imagined ideal of Iphigenia for his intended portrayal of Cymon and Iphigenia. He saw a young actress, Dorothy Dene, in a theatre in London and his search was over.

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Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Figurative Palette knife painter

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Cristina Fornarelli was born in Bari, Italy. After art school, she attended the Institute of Industrial Design in Rome where she still lives and works.
She has taken part in many national and international art fairs.
The subjects of her paintings are always women in equilibrium, hanging on swings, dangling in the air, dancing in an indefinite space emphasizing this delicate atmosphere. Her dreamlike subjects are relaxed and nostalgic, where the image seems crystallized and frozen.

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Sir John Lavery R.A. | Plein Air / Portrait painter

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Dreams / Sogni, 1896 | Art in Detail

The Master of the Story of Griselda | Il Maestro di Griselda | Artemisia, 1498

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"Artemisia" - Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano (Lombardia, Italy) - attributed to an anonymous Sienese master, known conventionally as the Master of the story of Griselda.
The Master of the Griselda Story is named from set of paintings which relate the story of Patient Griselda. Other paintings have been ascribed to him.
The style is typical of Sienese art in the late fifteenth century and reflects the manner of Luca Signorelli. His figures are notable for their elongated limbs, almost dancing motion and great elegance.
"Artemisia" symbolizes a widow's devotion to her husband's memory.






In Renaissance painting* she is depicted holding a cup or goblet.
The work depicts a heroine of antiquity, Artemisia, who lived in Anatolia in the fourth century B.C. Artemisia had married her brother Mausolus; when she was left a widow she devoted her life to honouring the memory of her husband, as shown in the episodes represented in the background.
On the right, Artemisia prepares to drink her husband’s ashes mixed with her tears; on the left she supervises the construction of his tomb, known as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the world.
The painting is therefore a celebration of conjugal love and was part of a cycle of heroic figures of antiquity.


























Il Maestro di Griselda, noto anche come Maestro della Leggenda di Santa Griselda, è stato un pittore Italiano* attivo a Siena nel XV secolo.
Egli trae il nome da tre dossali con storie dell'omonima eroina dell'antichità conservati alla National Gallery a Londra (nn. inv. 912, 913, 914: Davies, 1961, pp. 365-367).
Deve la sua fama alla realizzazione di una serie di dipinti raffiguranti uomini e donne virtuose dell'antichità di cui il più celebre è la raffigurazione di "Artemisia" - 1498 ca., 87,8 x 46,3 cm, tempera su tavola, Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
Artemisia, sorella e moglie di Mausolo, sovrano della Caria in Asia Minore, rimasta vedova, eresse in onore del marito il mausoleo di Alicarnasso e ne bevve le ceneri mischiate alle sue lacrime diventandone un sepolcro vivente.
Nel dipinto è raffigurata la figura di Artemisia con in mano il calice e, sullo sfondo, a sinistra l’erezione del mausoleo e, a destra, l’eroina in procinto di bere le ceneri del marito.
Sul retro della tavola chiodi molto lunghi, di cui è stata riscontrata la presenza anche in altre tavole del ciclo, servivano con tutta probabilità ad ancorare i dipinti a traverse che permettevano di inserire le tavole del ciclo all’interno di una struttura lignea.


Van Gogh | Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums, 1886 | Art in Detail

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Title: Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums;
Date: Paris, june - july 1886;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: cm 34.5x27;
Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation.


Vincent van Gogh* began experimenting with color in his still life flower series. By the summer of 1885, the artist created some 40 paintings with a traditional approach, meaning that the flowers were in a vase and placed in the center of the canvas.

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Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская, 1963 | Abstract Figurative painter

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Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская" was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In 1983, she graduated from Leningrad Serov Art college, Interior Design Department.
In 1998 she finished the studio school specializing in Old Masters painting techniques. Podgaevskaya* is an author of more than 500 works, with her paintings being part of numerous art shows in Russia, Europe and Asia. Many of her paintings are in private Russian, American and Western European collections, as well as in Pulkovo Observatory collection, Saint-Petersburg State University and the Slovak Embassy in Moscow.

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Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Plein Air painter

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Vyacheslav (Slava) Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков was born in the small city of Tula, not far from Moscow. Before entering Art School he studied drawing with a sculptor, and as a result was accepted to the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts on his first attempt. While still a student one of his paintings represented the Stroganov Academy at an exhibition in Prague.

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Misawa Hiroshi 三澤 寛志, 1961 | Figurative painter

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Japanese painter Misawa Hiroshi was born in Tokyo in 1961.
He is interested in educating younger generations, so now he works in two art schools.
He has a fund of knowledge about human body anatomy, so he describes his works in profound perspective. He has the great art of sketching.
  • 1984 - Graduated from Musashino Art University;
  • 1984 - MAU Best Graduation Award* Shin-Seisaku Exhibition (from this time on annually);
  • 1984 - Japan and France Art Exhibition;
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Miomir Badzic | Ballet dancers

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Badžić Miomir is an Serbian artist, known for working in classical and realistic style. Do not give preference to any one genre, among his works can be found portraits, landscapes, still lifes... Some time ago, he wrote to order several paintings replica on a historical theme for one of the Serbian museums. Currently the artist lives and works in the United States.

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Edward J. (Ted) Reed | Classical Realism painter

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Edward J. (Ted) Reed lives in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife and two daughters. He paints in his home studio and teaches portrait, figure and still-life painting at The Art League School located in The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria -Virginia.

Ted grew up in an artistic family and studied the basics of art in college, but did not complete his art education or begin painting in earnest until his late 30's. In the eight years since then, he has won numerous international and national awards*.

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Carlo Wostry | Genre / La Belle Époque painter

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A painter of historical and genre subjects*, Carlo Wostry (1865-1943) was also a sculptor and engraver. He studied in Vienna and also at the Baviere School in Munich, so gaining a varied and comprehensive training as a young man.
His first exhibition was in his hometown of Trieste, Italy and he painted a number of fine portraits there and soon produced a good living from his vocation as an artist.
Greatly influenced by Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931)* the great portrait and genre painter* from Ferare, Italy.

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Lindsey Kustusch | Cityscape painter

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Lindsey Kustusch - "I am an oil painter based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. My ambition is to try and capture the fleeting moments in life using this medium as an opportunity to see the world with a more interesting and colorful perspective. To stay present and aware by seeing the extraordinary in the mundane, challenging the insignificant versus the significant, and at the end of the day creating a deeper connection with the world around me".

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History of Valentine's Day, 14th February

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St. Valentine - Stained glass window at Basilica in Terni, Italy

Saint Valentine, officially known as Saint Valentine of Rome, is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with "courtly love".
At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city.

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Claude Monet | The Houses of Parliament, 1900-1905 | Painting series

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Claude Monet* painted a series of oil paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, in the fall of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London. All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames and the approximate canvas size of 81 cm x 92 cm (32 in x 36 3/8 in). They are however painted during different times of the day and weather circumstances.

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Rabindranath Tagore | Stay in front of my eyes / Rimani davanti ai miei occhi

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Laurie Blank

Stay in front of my eyes, and let
that your eyes inflame my songs.
Remains one of your stars, and their light
let me turn on my worship.
The land remains on hold
the roadside of the world;
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881 | Art in Detail

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Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year: 1880-1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 129.9 cm × 172.7 cm (51 in × 68 in)
Location: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1923
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir* remains the best known and most popular work of art at The Phillips Collection, just as Duncan Phillips imagined it would be when he bought it in 1923.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La Balançoire / L'altalena, 1876 | Art in Detail

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Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)*
Title: La balançoire [The Swing]
Date: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: H. 92; W. 73 cm
Current location: © Musée d'Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
A young man seen from the back is talking to a young woman standing on a swing, watched by a little girl and another man, leaning against the trunk of a tree.

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Ed Sandoval | Romantic Impressionist /Expressionist painter

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Ed Sandoval was born in Nambe, New Mexico, to a prominent Spanish family. Hespent the childhood with a foot in two worlds; on his family’s ranch in Nambe and in Los Alamos, where his father worked as an engineer. Benefiting from a great education both Academically and in the Arts, Ed graduated from Los Alamos High School, before earning his B.A in Fine Arts from Eastern New Mexico University.

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