Tarsila do Amaral | Modern painter
Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral (1886-1973) was a Brazilian painter, draftswoman and translator.She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who...
View ArticleHeinrich Hermanns | Cityscapes painter
Heinrich Hermanns (1862-1942) was a German lithographer and landscape painter.He was also known for architectural paintings and vedute and was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.Born in...
View ArticleAngelica Kauffmann | Neoclassical painter
Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) was a painter in the early Neoclassical style who is best known for her decorative wall paintings for residences designed by Robert Adam.The daughter of Johann Joseph...
View ArticleBetsy Westendorp-Osieck | The Amsterdamse Joffers group
Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968) was a Dutch painter, watercolorist, etcher, pastelist and draftsman who was part of the Amsterdamse Joffers painting group.Johanna Elisabeth ("Betsy" or "Betsie")...
View ArticleSilvio Allason | Romantic painter
Silvio Allason (1845-1912) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, seascapes and moonlit nocturnes.He was a resident in Turin.He first trained with his elder cousin, Ernesto Allason.He captures...
View ArticleEugène Laermans | Genre painter
Eugène Jules Joseph Baron Laermans (1864-1940) was a Belgian painter.He was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. At the age of eleven, he contracted meningitis, which left him deaf and nearly mute (although...
View ArticleJean-François Portaels | A Sicilian bride, 1861
Jean-François Portaels | A Sicilian bride, 1861 | Royal Collection of the United KingdomThree-quarter length, facing half left, her head turned to the viewer; seated on a stone bench; she wears a white...
View ArticleSergiy Lyacevitch, 1981
Sergiy Lyacevitch è un pittore figurativo impressionista che vive e lavora in Ucraina.Lyacevitch per i suoi quadri usa dei soggetti classici - le ballerine, la bellezza della donna e Parigi come...
View ArticleKing Charles III, 1948 | Watercolorist and Patron of the Arts
King Charles III of the United Kingdom (born Charles Philip Arthur George; 14 November 1948) is an artist, a master watercolour artist of landscapes.King Charles III's interest began during the 1970s...
View ArticleHarald Friedrich | Genre painter
Harald Otto Julius Friedrich (1858-1933) was a German painter, university professor and the grandson and last direct male descendant of Caspar David Friedrich.Harald Otto Julius Friedrich was born on...
View ArticlePhilip Hermogenes Calderon | The Orphans, 1870
Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898) was a British painter of Spanish and French descent.His father, at one time a Roman Catholic priest, was Professor of Spanish Literature at King's College,...
View ArticleUlpiano Checa y Sanz | Orientalist painter
Ulpiano Checa y Sanz (1860-1916) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poster designer and illustrator, known in the art world as Ulpiano Fernández-Checa y Saiz.He used both impressionistic and academic...
View ArticleSeverin Nilsson | Genre painter
Johan Severin Nilsson (1846-1918) was a Swedish painter and photographer.Nilsson was born in Asige Parish, Halland. His father was a blacksmith.In 1865, at the age of eighteen, he enrolled as a student...
View ArticleCarl Schweninger | Genre painter
Carl Schweninger the Younger (1854-1912) was an Austrian painter.Carl Schweninger was born in Vienna, Austria and came from a Viennese artist family.He was the son of the painter Carl Schweninger the...
View ArticleMozart: "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between"
•"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place".•"Un uomo di talento ordinario...
View ArticleAtsushi Koyama, 1978 | Humans and Machines
Born in Tokyo, Atsushi Koyama / 小山 篤 is a visual artist from Japan. He holds both a BFA in art from Tama Art University and a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Tokyo University of Science in...
View ArticleGiorgos Seferis | A word for Summer / Una parola sull'Estate, 1936
We’ve returned to autumn again; summer,like an exercise book we’re tired of writing in, remainsfull of deletions, abstract designs,question marks in the margin; we’ve returnedto the season of eyes...
View ArticleEmanuel Phillips Fox (1865-1915)
Emanuel Phillips Fox was an Australian impressionist painter.After studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne, Fox travelled to Paris to study in 1886 and enrolled at the...
View ArticleLéon Pilet | Un Coup de vent, 1888
Léon Pilet (1836-1916) was a French sculptor and medalist, known for his classical subjects in bronze.Pilet also produced male and female figurines from clay, marble and ivory. Many of his works depict...
View ArticleJohann Sebastian Bach: "La musica aiuta a non sentire dentro il silenzio che...
•"Tre cose sono necessarie per un buon pianista: la testa, il cuore e le dita".•"La perfezione si raggiunge per gradi".•"Ai miei occhi ed alle mie orecchie l’organo è il re di tutti gli strumenti".•"La...
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