Charles Spencelayh | Genre painter
Charles Spencelayh (October 27, 1865 - June 25, 1958) was an English genre painter and portraitist in the Academic style.Spencelayh was born in Rochester in Kent, and first studied at the National Art...
View ArticleLa Grotta di Altamira | Patrimonio della Umanità
"Dopo Altamira, tutto è decadenza", esclamò Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, incantato dinanzi allo spettacolo delle pitture rupestri nella grotta spagnola di Altamira.Molti pittori sono stati influenzati...
View ArticleChristine Løvmand | Flower painter
Christine Marie Løvmand (19 March 1803 - 10 April 1872) was a Danish artist who specialized in paintings of flowers and still lifes. She was one of the few women at the time who gained recognition as a...
View ArticleChristoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg | Neoclassical painter
Having won the Great Grand Prize for painting awarded by the Royal Danish Academy in 1809, the Danish painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) set out from Copenhagen the following year with...
View ArticleAdolphe Henri Laissement | Genre painter
Henri Laissement was was a French portrait and genre painter.In 1872, at the age of 18 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts studying under Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) who greatly influenced his...
View ArticleMarie Lucas Robiquet | Orientalist painter
Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (17 October 1858 – 21 December 1959) was a French Orientalist artist who worked within the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.Lucas-Robiquet was recognized...
View ArticleAnna Bilińska (1854-1893)
Anna Bilińska, also known as Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, (8 December 1854 - 18 April 1893) was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. A representative of realism, she spent much of her artistic life...
View ArticleGerda Roosval-Kallstenius (Swedish, 1864-1939)
Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius (10 February 1864, Kalmar - 21 August 1939, Västervik) was a Swedish painter who specialized in landscapes and scenes with figures.She was the daughter of businessman John...
View ArticleGustaf Theodor Wallén | Genre painter
A painter of landscape, coastal scenes, portraits and sculpture, Gustaf Theodor Wallén was an artist of considerable renown achieving significant success in Paris and in Sweden.He was born in Stockholm...
View ArticlePaul Éluard / Pablo Picasso | Il volto della Pace / Le Visage de la Paix, 1951
"Il volto della Pace" - La poesia di Paul Éluard illustrata da Pablo PicassoConosco tutti i luoghi dove abita la colombae il più naturale è la testa dell’uomo.L’amore della giustizia e della libertàha...
View ArticleMuseum Masterpieces
Annie Feray Mutrie (British, 1826-1893) - Cactus | BonhamsExhibited:(possibly) Royal Academy, 1866, no. 370;Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867.Annie Feray Mutrie was the younger sister of Martha Darley...
View ArticleAuguste-Émile Pinchart | Genre painter
Auguste-Émile Pinchart, or Émile-Auguste Pinchart (10 August 1842, Cambrai - November 1920, Tunis) was a French painter and designer who is best remembered for his Orientalist scenes.He began as a...
View ArticleAlexander Mark Rossi | Genre painter
Alexander Mark Rossi (1840-1916) was a successful British artist, specializing in genre works who flourished in the late 19th century.He was born on the Greek Island of Corfu, the son of Dr Mark Rossi,...
View ArticleClaude Monet at the Museum Barberini
The Hasso Plattner Collection - Museum Barberini - contains more than 100 works by Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters, including 34 paintings by Claude Monet.With over one hundred paintings,...
View ArticleVincent van Gogh | Houses at Auvers, 1890
"Houses at Auvers" is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, located at the Toledo Museum of Art.It was created towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to...
View ArticleRaphaël Collin | Symbolist painter
Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin (17 June 1850 - 21 October 1916) was a French painter born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and a teacher.He is principally known for the...
View ArticleIsaac Snowman | Genre painter
Isaac Snowman (1873-1947) was an Anglo-Jewish artist who made Jewish cultural themes his subject.Early lifeHe was educated at the City of London School. In 1890 he entered the Royal Academy School,...
View ArticleSergio Cerchi, 1957 | Figures and Geometries
Italian artist Sergio Cerchi was born in Florence, where he still lives and works.He was educated at the Art Institute d'Arte di Porta Romana and studied at the Cherubim Conservatory courses.From...
View ArticleGustave Caillebotte at the Museum Barberini
Gustave Caillebotte | Couple on a Walk, 1881 | Museum BarberiniIn the 1860s the seaside resorts in Normandy became the most popular summer retreats of the Parisian bourgeoisie. Here a young couple...
View ArticlePierre-Auguste Renoir | The Wave / L'Onda, 1882
Each summer between 1879 and 1882 Pierre-Auguste Renoir traveled to Wargemont near Dieppe on the Normandy coast to visit his friend and patron Paul Bérard.Renoir and Bérard, a banker and French...
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