James Jebusa Shannon | Portrait / Genre painter
Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862-1923) was an Anglo-American artist.Shannon was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.When he was sixteen, he went to...
View ArticleAdrien Moreau | Genre painter
Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) was a French genre and historical painter, sculptor and illustrator.Moreau was born in Troyes in Aube department.He began his artistic training as an apprentice glassmaker,...
View ArticleLudovico Marchetti | Genre painter
Ludovico Marchetti (Rome, 1853-1909, Paris) was an Italian-born painter of genre scenes, who spent most of his life in France.His artistic education began in the studios of Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish...
View ArticleKonstantinos Kavafis | Candele / Candles / Κεριά
Stanno i giorni futuri innanzi a noicome una fila di candele accesedorate, calde e vivide.Restano indietro i giorni del passato,penosa riga di candele spente:le più vicine danno fumo ancora,fredde,...
View ArticleCarl Schlesinger | Genre / Landscape painter
Carl Schlesinger (1825-1893) was a Swiss-German genre and landscape painter.Schlesinger began his painting apprenticeship in Hamburg, with Gerdt Hardorff and Hermann Kauffmann and continued it in 1844...
View ArticleDésiré Thomassin | Naturalist painter
Désiré Thomassin was an Austrian painter and composer.His father was the charge d’affaires of the Duchy of Parma in Vienna, his mother was from Regensburg.After the death of the father in 1867 the...
View ArticleDanny Day, 1964 | Romantic Realism painter
Danny Day has established a reputation worldwide for the high quality of his original works of art.Danny has made it a lifelong quest to master and refine his version of realism, perfecting the...
View ArticleFelix Schlesinger | Genre painter
Felix Schlesinger (1833-1910) was a German genre painter of the Düsseldorf School.Felix Schlesinger was born in a family of painters.In 1848, he received his first artistic training from Friedrich...
View ArticleRosario de Velasco | Magic Realism painter
Rosario de Velasco Belausteguigoitia (Madrid, 1904 - Barcelona, 1991) Spanish painter.Born in Madrid, in her early years she started an active painting career.Pupil of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y...
View ArticleRomà Ribera | Painter of the Belle Époque
Romà Ribera i Cirera (Barcelona, 1848-1935) was a Catalan genre painter.He specialized in contemporary scenes from upper-class social events, rendered in meticulous detail, but also did numerous scenes...
View ArticleJaroslav Seifert | Se al cuore si potesse dire / If one could tell one’s heart…
Se al cuore si potesse dire:non correre!Se potessi ordinargli: brucia!Già si spegne.Marc Chagall... Read more .. »
View ArticlePierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895
"I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch", Renoir wrote to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888, full of enthusiasm for his latest efforts."This is to give you some...
View ArticleJaroslav Seifert | Di pomeriggio uno scroscio di pioggia..
Di pomeriggio uno scroscio di pioggiafece profumare anche l’erba pestae la sera, piena di primaverile malinconia,lenta s’univa alla notte.Jeff Rowland... Read more .. »
View ArticleOreste Cortazzo | Painter of the Belle Époque
Oreste Cortazzo (1836, Rome - 1910, Paris) was an Italian-born French painter, graphic artist and illustrator.His family originally came from Ceraso, in the Province of Salerno.Around 1848, he began an...
View ArticleAlexis Le Borgne, 1995 | Watercolor painter
Alexis Le Borgne is an award-winning French-Vietnamese professional artist based in France.He describes his art as evolving with time and being marked by continuous questioning and desire to learn in...
View ArticleMario Puccini | The Italian van Gogh
Mario Puccini (1869, Livorno - 1920, Florence) was an Italian Post-Macchiaioli painter, who specialized in landscapes and village scenes.He was sometimes referred to as "The Italian Van Gogh".His...
View ArticleMark Stock | The Butlers in Love
Mark Stock (1951-2014) was an American painter.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1951.The son of an Army officer, Stock lived in many states across America before settling in St. Petersburg,...
View ArticleStephen Gjertson, 1949 | Classical realism painter
Stephen Gjertson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Trained by Richard Lack (1928-2009) at Atelier Lack during the early 70's, Gjertson has spent twenty years creating works that reflect his love of...
View ArticleJaroslav Seifert | Rondò di primavera
Tu devi credermi, io sarei felicese sorrisi mandassero i tuoi occhiquando stasera dovrai ricucireciò che le mie mani ti hanno strappato.Pierre-Auguste Renoir... Read more .. »
View ArticleFlorine Stettheimer | Rococo-inspired modernist painter
Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist painter, feminist, theatrical designer, poet and salonnière.Stettheimer developed a feminine, theatrical painting style depicting her friends,...
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