Leonardo da Vinci ~ Differenza tra la pittura e la scultura
Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /32Tra la pittura e la scultura non trovo altra differenza, senonché lo scultore conduce le sue opere con maggior fatica di corpo che il pittore, ed il pittore...
View ArticleLionel Percy Smythe | Victorian landscape watercolors painter
Lionel Percy Smythe (1839-1918) was Wyllie's older half-brother and the eldest of three illegitimate children that their mother, Katherine Benham, a singer, had with Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount...
View ArticleTanvi Pathare | Figurative painter
Tanvi Pathare, born in Mumbai, India, showed a growing interest in the fine arts since a very early age. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where she...
View ArticleFilippo Palizzi | Figure / Genre / Barbizon landscape painter
Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter. Filippo Palizzi was born in Vasto (Chieti). He moved to Naples in 1837 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but withdrew after a few...
View ArticleFilippo Palizzi | Sleeping Shepherd and His Dog, 1850-1855
Filippo Palizzi (Vasto 1818 - Naples 1899), Abruzzo painter of the Neapolitan school but little academic, impressed heightened realism to his painting. Thanks to exchanges of view with his brother...
View ArticleMaria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Figurative painter
South African artist Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen paints figurative portraits emanating innocence and hope that pay tribute both to her devotion to God and her belief in the intrinsic goodness of the...
View ArticleCoco Chanel | Quotes / Aforismi
Coco Chanel and Romy SchneiderElegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future! Where should one use perfume? a...
View ArticleGeorge Underwood, 1947 ~ Surrealist /Visionary painter | Part 2
Richard George Underwood is a British artist and musician. He is best known for designing album covers for numerous bands in the 1970s.For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by...
View ArticleDerek Boshier, 1937 | Pop painter
Dereck Boshier | David Bowie portrait British painter, sculptor, photographer and printmaker. Derek Boshier studied painting and lithography at Yeovil School of Art in Somerset (1953-7), Guildford...
View ArticleLuigi Bartolini | Colors /Colori
Black, you are Black Hell, its dark portals,the arch of Styx, the shadow of evening, the breath of night,the dismal quilt that lastly shrouds our bodies;black, color and bestower of Death.Red, you of...
View ArticleNils Kreuger | Paris painting
Nils Edvard Kreuger (11 October 1858 - 11 May 1930) was a Swedish painter.After studying at the Perséus school of painting, Nils Kreuger came to Paris in 1881. Under the influence of the French plein...
View ArticleVirgil Elliott, 1944 | Classical Realism painter
Virgil Elliott was fortunate enough to have been the first son of Dollye McAlister Elliott, a schoolteacher and amateur artist, who began his art education in the second year of his life. The first...
View ArticleMax Nonnenbruch | Junge Schönheit, 1892
Max Nonnenbruch (25.01.1857 in Viersen; † 13.03.1922 in München, Munich) was a famous German painter in the Art Nouveau Jugendstil Early 1900s Period.Nonnenbruch was one of the most widely exhibited...
View ArticleMahnoor Shah, 1991 | Figurative Abstract painter
Mahnoor Shah was born in Islamabad, Federal - Pakistan.'I am a collaborative and driven Freelance Graphic Designer over three years of experience delivering digital and print materials for a variety of...
View ArticleRauf Janibekov, 1956 | Figurative Abstract painter
Raouf Salim Janibekov - a modern Azerbaijani artist, born in Baku. He graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical Institute.Being a surgeon by profession Dr. Rauf Janibekov is a self-taught artist. He had...
View ArticleLuxo N. P. 1972 | Abstract Figurative painter
Luxo N. P. was born, lives and works in Salt Lake City. He is best known for Impassioned Freedomism Art movement. If you search in a dictionary reference for the word impassioned you will find...
View ArticleAndrée Bienfait, 1956 | Figurative pastel painter
Andrée Bienfait was born in 1956 in Belgium where she spent her youth and there began to paint under the guidance of painters of her native region, the Ardennes. She started art classes in high school...
View ArticleTrisha Adams | Impressionist landscape painter
Trisha Adams was born and raised in California. She went to college at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri with a year's honor study in Oxford, England. She graduated magna cum laude with a...
View ArticleRon Di Scenza, 1954 | Ballet dancer
Ron Di Scenza is an ltalian American painter, known for working in the Figurative style. For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Di Scenza see Ron Di Scenza, 1954 |...
View ArticleTricia Cherrington Ratliff | Still Life /Portrait painter
Tricia Cherrington-Ratliff is an artist who paints with a specific goal of leaving behind works of art that will be meaningful to future generations.Having grown up in the shadows of the Music Hall of...
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