Lionello Balestrieri | Genre / Figurative / Impressionist painter
Lionello Balestrieri was born in Cetona in 1872 into a family of humble origins. When his family moved to Rome he enrolled at the Istituto di Belle Arti and then at the same institution at Naples where...
View ArticleLionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin / Il trittico di Chopin, 1904
Lionello Balestrieri | Chopin Triptych | Chopin and George Sand | Indianapolis Museum of Art, IndianaThe Balestrieri's Triptych of Chopin is a series of three panel painting:Chopin and George...
View ArticleZhang Jing Sheng 张京生, 1940 | Plein air /Palette knife painter
Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生 is a professor and tutor for graduate students at the Tianjin Fine Arts Academy. He received State Allowance.In 1967, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Fine...
View ArticleRomona Youngquist, 1960 | Plein air painter
"My lifestyle hasn’t changed much since early childhood. I live on a little farm with my family in the middle of Oregon wine country; I still hang out in the woods with the dogs and my own kids; and I...
View ArticlePierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter
Famed for his sensual charming scenes of pretty women, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.He was a founding member of the...
View ArticleIlham Mirzayev, 1965 | Abstract painter
Ilham Mirzayev Maharram was born in Nakhchivan, the Azerbaijan Republic. 1980 - 1984 Studied at the State Arts School named Azim Azimzadeh.1984 - 1986 Served in the Soviet Army.1986 - Began creative...
View ArticlePakayla Biehn, 1986 | Surrealist painter
Pakayla Rae Biehn is a young and talented artist born and raised in California. She uses oil and acrylic to create incredible paintings that look like pictures.Her talent is definitely polyhedric...
View ArticleThe Garmash | Romantic Impressionist / Plein Air painters | Part. 4
Mikhail (Michael) Garmash (1969 Lugansk, Ukraine) ed Inessa Garmash (1972 Lipetsk, Russia) are two award winning Russian painters, known for working in the Romantic /Impressionist /Figurative style.For...
View ArticleMichelangelo Buonarroti | High Renaissance /Mannerist painter and sculptor |...
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting...
View ArticlePeter Demetz, 1969 | Figurative wood sculptor
Peter Demetz was born in Bolzano-Italy and lives and works in Ortisei (BZ);1983-84 - Art school in Ortisei;1984-90 - Apprenticeship at Heinrich Demetz’s workshop;1993 - Achievement of the diploma...
View ArticleIgor Levashov [Игорь Левашов] 1964 | Flower painter
Born near Moscow in 1964, Russian painterИгорь Левашов entered the School for Young Painters in 1997 and the world-famed Sourykoff Institute in Moscow in 1984. He finished his formal training at the...
View ArticleIppolito Caffi | The ruins of the Colosseum in Rom
Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) was an Italian visionary landscape painter of the 19th century.Compared to Canaletto for his undoubted perspective skills, Ippolito Caffi actually 'exceeds' the great...
View ArticleRichard Savoie, 1959 | Cityscape painter
Richard Savoie is a Quebec painter born in Moncton New Brunswick. He comes from a family of artists, the works of his uncle Roméo Savoie is part of Canada’s National Gallery.Savoie spent part of his...
View ArticleEdward Robert Hughes | Pre-Raphaelite painter
Edward Robert Hughes RWS (5 November 1851 - 23 April 1914) was an British painter who worked prominently in watercolours. He was influenced by his uncle, and eminent Pre-Raphaelite, Arthur...
View ArticleThierry Duval, 1957 | Watercolor Paris painting
Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France. His watercolors are characterized by a strong light and precision in drawing, being almost or hyperrealist in the results mainly in his Paris watercolors. By...
View ArticleChien Chung-Wei 簡忠威, 1968 | Romantic Cityscape painter
Chien Chung-Wei 簡忠威aimed to be a painter at age 10. He earned the master degree in Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University and was selected as one of the 30 painters in One Hundred Years of...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky | Abstract /Expressionist painter
Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, 1911Wassily Kandinsky / Василий Кандинский (born December 4 [December 16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia-died December 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France),...
View ArticleSalvatore Alessi, 1974 | Figurative painter
Salvatore Alessi was born in Sicily. After the Art school, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, specializing in scenography. Then he started working as a scenographer: he made...
View ArticleAncient Egypt / La Civiltà Egizia
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. It is one of six civilizations to...
View ArticleNefertiti, la Dea dell'Egitto
Il pezzo più pregiato della collezione di reperti archeologici egizi è senza dubbio il busto della regina Nefertiti.C'è chi afferma che valga da solo un viaggio a Berlino. Nefertiti, che per gli...
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