Raphael | The Mond Crucifixion, 1502-3
"The Crucified Christ with the Virgin Mary, Saints and Angels" or "The Mond Crucifixion" is an oil painting on wood (279x166 cm) by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520), datable to 1502-1503...
View ArticleAndrew McNeile Jones, 1961
Andrew McNeile Jones graduated from Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Art, with a first in Fine Art, in the 1980’s.He then trained as a filmmaker, working in all areas of the film and television...
View ArticleAtanas Matsoureff, 1975 | Watercolor painter
Atanas Matsoureff was born in the town of Bansko, Bulgaria.He graduated from a technical school with a major in "Woodcarving".Although he does not have an Art degree, he is one of the greatest talents...
View ArticleMary Fedden | Modern painter
Mary Fedden, OBE RA PPRWA (1915-2012) was a British artist.After the war was over, Fedden developed her own style of flower paintings and still lifes, reminiscent of artists such as Matisse and...
View ArticleJohann Hamza | Genre painter
The Austrian painter Johann Hamza (1850-1927) is amongst the most gifted 19th Century genre artists who showed a profound fascination with pictures set in the later eighteenth century.As M. Poltimore...
View ArticleFrançois-Joseph Navez | The Massacre of the Innocents, 1824
"The massacre of the innocents' was created in 1824 by Belgian painter François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) in Neoclassicism style.The painting is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art."The Massacre...
View ArticleFrançois-Joseph Navez | Neoclassical painter
François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) was a Belgian Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits and genre scenes.As the son of an alderman, in a privileged family, he was able to devote himself entirely...
View ArticleBernardo Bellotto | Veduta painter
Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities - Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw.He was the...
View ArticleCharles Cushing, 1959 | Plein-air painter
Charles Cushing was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but has lived and worked in center city Philadelphia for over 40 years.He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, graduating in 1988.While at...
View ArticleAmalie Lindegren | Genre painter
Amalia Euphrosyne Lindegren (1814-1891) was a Swedish painter.She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1856).Lindegren is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.She painted...
View ArticleJohn Woodrow Kelley, 1952
A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, John Woodrow Kelley is a representational artist known for mythological scenes and portraiture.In his works, Kelley seeks to reinterpret Western art through a...
View ArticleCarla Accardi | Abstract painter
From 6 March to 9 June 2024, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome dedicates an important retrospective to Carla Accardi on the anniversary of her birth, 1924-2024.A figure of undisputed prominence on the...
View ArticleJohn Keats | Ode on a Grecian Urn / Ode su un'Urna Greca, 1819
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring'd legend haunts...
View ArticleMarco Ricci | Baroque painter
Marco Ricci (1676-1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Early yearsHe was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in...
View ArticleMarcel Rieder | Academic painter
Marcel Rieder (1862-1942) was a French painter.He was born in Thann. Rieder came from a distinguished family in Alsace; his grandfather Jean Jacques Rieder (1778-1852) was a minister of the Temple Neuf...
View ArticleJoan Llimona | Romantic painter
Joan Llimona i Bruguera (1860-1926) was a Spanish artist who rose to popularity at end of the Romantic movement in Europe.Llimona was a key contributor to the modernist movement.Despite his brief life,...
View Article150 years of the First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874-2024
150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called...
View ArticleReinaldo Arenas | My Lover The Sea
Io sono quel bambino con la faccia tonda e sporca,che in ogni angolo ti infastidiscecon il suo "mi dai una monetina"?Io sono quel bambino con la faccia tonda e sporca, certamente non voluto, che da...
View ArticleJane Graverol | Surrealist painter
Jane Graverol (1905-1984) was a Belgian surrealist painter of French extraction.LifeJane Graverol was born in Ixelles on 18 December 1905 to Alexandre Graverol and Anne-Marie Lagadec.After a...
View ArticleAlison Friend, 1973
Alison Friend is a British artist, born in Doncaster, South Yorks.Her paintings are inspired by nature and her cheeky sense of humour.Dreamy delicate brush strokes abound every canvas where she...
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