Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) | Romantic painter
Léon Cogniet was a French🎨 history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.He was born in Paris. His father was a painter and...
View ArticleCharles Chaplin (1825-1891) | Academic painter
Charles Joshua Chaplin was a French painter🎨 and engraver. His father was British and his mother french, and he only became a naturalized Frenchman in 1886, although he worked in France all his life.He...
View ArticleJohn Poppleton | Bodyscapes painter
John Poppleton was born and raised in the suburbs of Sacramento, CA. He was introduced to photography during his junior year of high school in 1988.He pursued all areas of photography very passionately...
View ArticlePascal Dagnan-Bouveret | The petit Savoyard eating in front of an entrance to...
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 - July 3, 1929), was one of the leading French artists🎨 of the Naturalist school.He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his...
View ArticleLouise Abbéma (1853-1927) | Belle Époque painter
Louise Abbéma was a French painter🎨, sculptor and designer of the Belle Époque.Abbéma was born in Étampes, Essonne. She was born into a wealthy Parisian family, who were well connected in the local...
View ArticleGrand Prix de Rome (1663-1968) | Art history
Dea Roma, Viale Trinità dei Monti, Villa Medici, Roma Prix de Rome, in full Grand Prix de Rome, any of a group of scholarships awarded🎨 by the French government between 1663-1968 to enable young French...
View ArticleEdgar Degas | Sculpture
Degas’ sculpture stands outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century French sculpture. He was never interested in creating public monuments, and, with one exception, neither did he display his...
View ArticleJeff Rowland, 1964 | Romantic painter of Rain | VideoArt
Jeff Rowland🎨's ideas and inspirations: 'I have always been fascinated in two areas of art; the implicit meaning and the inspiration. I was inspired to paint a rain soaked street through films I saw at...
View ArticleAlexander Millar, 1960 | Fly With Me
Scottish painter Alexander Millar is one of the UK's most popular contemporary artists. Born and raised in the small mining community of Springside, just outside the town of Kilmarnock on the west...
View ArticleLudwig van Beethoven: Plaudite amici, comedia finita est..
Beethoven - Andy Warhol 1928-1987L'Arte! Chi la può comprendere? A chi si può rivolgere una persona per attirare l'attenzione di questa grande Dea...Beethoven- Ludwig van Beethoven🎨(1770-1827) è stato...
View ArticleMiriam Briks, 1957 | Figurative painter
Polish-born American painter Miriam Briks was born in Wroclaw, Poland. Raised in New York, she graduated from the School of Art and Design and studied figurative painting and drawing extensively at the...
View ArticleBrian Scott [Briscott] | Portrait painter
Brian Scott [Briscott] British painter, a self-taught, uses colored pencils, unique perspective and captivating subjects to create stunning work.Brian Scott is a self-taught artist and feels that it...
View ArticleCesare Lapini (1848-1893) | Figurative /Allegorical sculptor
Cesare Lapini (1848-1893) was born in Florence. He became one of the leading sculptors of his generation producing works in marble including allegorical works, copies after the Antique, genre subjects...
View ArticleJonathan Wolstenholme, 1950 | The Surreal books
Jonathan Wolstenholme is an British painter and illustrator best known for his amazingly detailed works deriving from a love of old books. Books on Books is a series of illustrations in which the book...
View ArticleVassilis Solidakis, 1948 | Figurative Expressionist painter
Βασίλης Σολιδάκης was born in Sitia of the Island of Crete, Greece. He boasts to be an 'Eteocris', who is considered to be the indigenous people of Crete with roots in the Minoan period.Solidakis...
View ArticleLynn Sanguedolce, 1959 | Figurative painter
American painter🎨 Lynn R. Sanguedolce is an award-winning🎨 artist who has been represented by prestigious galleries across the country. A professional artist for over thirty years, her work may be...
View ArticleHenri Chapu (1833-1891) | Allegorical sculptor
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu was a French sculptor🎨 in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his work.Born in Le Mée-sur-Seine into modest circumstances, Chapu moved...
View ArticleGustave Flaubert | Quotes / Aforismi
James Tissot (1836-1902)🎨 | Young Lady in a Boat"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe"."L'arte di scrivere è l'arte di scoprire ciò in cui credi"."Fate attenzione alla...
View ArticleMark Olich, 1974 | Ballet dancers photographer
"For me, ballet is movement and music, and if there is movement in the frame, if music is heard, it's a good shoot, it rarely happens"- Mark Olich.Mark Olich is a Russian photographer🎨 whose works are...
View ArticleKitty Meijering, 1974 | Ballet dancers
Kitty Meijering studied at the Amsterdam University. At this University she followed a visual arts education, which she completed in 1998.At this moment dance and specifically ballet is the main theme...
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