Anton Einsle | Portrait painter

Anton Einsle (1801-1871), an Austrian ⎆ portrait painter, was born at Vienna in 1801.
He studied at the Academy of that city, and was largely patronized by the court and nobility. He died in 1871.

Anton Einsle (1801-1871) è sato un ritrattista Austriaco ⎆, nacque a Vienna nel 1801.

Studiò all'Accademia della stessa città, e fu in gran parte patrocinato dalla corte e dalla nobiltà. Morì nel 1871.

Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter

Claude Lorrain, byname of Claude Gellée, (born 1600, Chamagne, France - died Nov. 23, 1682, Rome [Italy]), French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of, ideal landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself.

Piero della Francesca | The History of the True Cross, 1466

The History of the True Cross or The Legend of the True Cross is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo.

It is his largest work, and generally considered one of his finest, and an early Renaissance masterpiece.

Its theme, derived from the popular 13th century book on the lives of saints by Jacopo da Varagine, the Golden Legend, is the triumph of the True Cross - the legend of the wood from the Garden of Eden becoming the Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

Melozzo da Forlì | Musician angels / Gli Angeli musicanti, 1480

The 14 fragments with the Apostles and Angel musicians (these too exhibited in room IV) together with the figure of Christ, (now in the Quirinal Palace) were part of the old decoration of the apse of the Church of the SS. Apostoli in Rome illustrating the Ascension of Christ.

The fresco, which was destroyed in 1711, was painted by Melozzo da Forlì ⏭ around 1480, shortly after the works of restoration on the church for cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (pontiff from 1503-1513).

Alfred Sisley | Impressionist / Plein Air painter

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship.
He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en Plein Air. He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing.

Jagannath Paul, 1976 | Abstract Figurative painter

Born in West Bengal, Jagannath Paul is a Mumbai based artist.The varied nuances of male and female relationship are manifested into his paintings through the medium of charcoals and colors on paper and canvas.

He uses colours to depict relationships in different moods and emotions.

Jagannath Paul has graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata 2000 with 1st class 1st. He has won many prestigious awards🎨.

Annibale Carracci | Contrast with Caravaggio

The tradition of Italian Renaissance painting and the mature Renaissance artists like Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Titian and Veronese are all painters who had a considerable influence on the work of the Carracci, in his use of colours.

Carracci laid the foundations for the birth of Baroque painting.

Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter

Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style ⎆. Together with his cousin Ludovico (1555-1619) and his older brother Agostino (1557-1602) -each an outstanding artist- Annibale set out to transform Italian painting ⎆.

The Carracci rejected the artificiality of Mannerist painting ⎆, championing a return to nature coupled with the study of the great northern Italian painters of the Renaissance ⎆, especially Correggio ⎆, Titian ⎆ and Veronese ⎆.

Nikolaos Gyzis / Νικόλαος Γύζης | Genre painter

Nikolaos Gyzis /Νικόλαος Γύζης (1 March 1842 - 4 January 1901) was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting.

It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928.

He was the major representative of the so-called "Munich School", the major 19th-century Greek art movement.

Venus de Milo

This graceful statue of a goddess has intrigued and fascinated since its discovery on the island of Melos in 1820.

Is it Aphrodite, who was often portrayed half-naked, or the sea goddess Amphitrite, who was venerated on Melos?

The statue reflects sculptural research during the late Hellenistic Period: classical in essence, with innovatory features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips.

Terry Miura, 1964 | Abstract Figurative painter

Terry Miura was born in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Art Center College of Design in 1990, Terry Miura headed out to New York City to pay his dues.

He began his career as a freelance illustrator, creating imagery for such clients as Time, Newsweek, Rollingstone, and Sports Illustrated, to name a few.

In between illustration assignments he painted and exhibited cityscapes, and continued his transition to becoming a full time painter after returning to the West Coast in 1996.

Eugène Delacroix | Romantic / Orientalist painter

Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene (1798-1863) was born in 1798, the son of Charles Delacroix who had served briefly as minister of foreign affairs under the Directory and who was on a mission to Holland, as the ambassador of the French Republic, at the time of his son's birth.

His mother, Victoire Oeben, was descended from a family of artisans and craftsmen.

Eanger Irving Couse | Tao Society artist

Eanger Irving Couse (September 3, 1866 - April 26, 1936) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists.

He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest.

His house and studio in Taos have been preserved as the Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio - Joseph Henry Sharp Studios, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties.

Pablo Neruda / Jeremy Mann | Sonnet XXVII

Nuda sei semplice come una delle tue mani,

liscia, terrestre, minima, rotonda, trasparente,

hai linee di luna, strade di mela,

nuda sei sottile come il grano nudo.

Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,

Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round:

You have moonlines, applepathways:

Naked, you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938)

Vincenzo Migliaro (Napoli, 8 ottobre 1858 - Napoli, 16 marzo 1938) è stato un pittore, scultore ed incisore Italiano, di scuola napoletana.

Dopo aver appreso l'arte dell'intaglio ai corsi della Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana ed aver frequentato lo studio di Stanislao Lista, si iscrive nel 1875 all'Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli e si forma sotto la guida di Domenico Morelli.

Nel 1877 compie un breve viaggio a Parigi, dove si sofferma a studiare le opere esposte al Museo del Louvre.

Vincenzo Migliaro | Genre painter

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938) was an Neapolitan painter.

He was born in Salerno. He first studied under Gaetano D'Agostino, but later enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples, where he studied under Filippo Palizzi, Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista.

In these studies, he was funded by a stipend from the government of Salerno.

Giulio Romano | Mannerist painter

Giulio Romano🎨, original name Giulio Pippi, in full Giulio di Pietro di Filippo de’ Giannuzzi, (born 1492/99, Rome [Italy] - died Nov. 1, 1546, Mantua, Duchy of Mantua), late Renaissance painter🎨 and architect, the principal heir of Raphael🎨, and one of the initiators of the Mannerist style🎨.

Giulio was apprenticed to Raphael🎨 as a child and had become so important in the workshop that by Raphael’s death, in 1520, he was named with G. Penni as one of the master’s chief heirs; he also became his principal artistic executor.

After Raphael’s death, Giulio completed a number of his master’s unfinished works, including the Transfiguration. In his original work from these years, such as the Madonna and Saints (c. 1523) and the Stoning of St. Stephen (1523), Giulio developed a highly personal, anticlassical style of painting.

Rusudan Petviashvili, 1968

Rusudan Petviashvili started to paint when she was one year and ten months old. The first personal exhibition was held when she became 6.

Up to the hundred of her graphic and colour pictures were exhibited: the large-formatted, highly complicated one-touch drawings, mostly.

Scholars, as well as the wide society, were bewildered to see an amazing skill of the child. In the age of 8, Petviashvili held two personal exhibitions in Moscow.

Eugène Delacroix | La Liberté guidant le peuple, 1830

The Paris uprising of July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, known as the Trois Glorieuses ("Three Glorious Days"), was initiated by the liberal republicans for violation of the Constitution by the Second Restoration government.
Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France, was overthrown and replaced by Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Delacroix, who witnessed the uprising, perceived it as a modern subject for a painting; the resulting work reflects the same romantic fervor he had applied to Massacre at Chios, a painting inspired by the Greek war of independence.

Bec Winnel, 1978 | VideoArt

Bec Winnel is an Australian Portrait illustrator who has become widely known for her soft and ethereal illustrations. She is a member of famous Illustrator list.

"I enjoy creating beautiful and detailed portraits of imaginary women in imaginary worlds that celebrate the feminine spirit.

My 'girls' are often accompanied by elements of nature, fantasy and items from bygone eras.

My colour palette is mostly soft, subdued pastels, and my mediums include pencil, pastel, watercolour and acrylic.

To further enhance the mystery, my girls are often fading into or out of the background, as if they are nearly there, speaking to you from a distant place.

Whilst I love creating my girls, I also enjoying experimenting in all creative forms including abstract painting, exploring colour, texture, pattern and various subject matters".

Claude Monet | Springtime, 1872 | Art in Detail

Title: Springtime.

Author: Claude Monet (French painter, 1840-1926) ⎆

Date: 1872.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 50 cm × 65.5 cm.

Current location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Max Weber (1881-1961) | Cubist painter

Painter, sculptor, poet. Weber was an adventurous modernist who assimilated the influences of Cubism, Futurism, Orphism and Postimpressionism. Weber later memorialized his Jewish heritage in such works as Students of the Torah (1940) and Adoration of the Moon (1944).

At age ten Weber immigrated with his parents to Brooklyn. He studied at Pratt Institute and with Arthur Wesley Dow and subsequently taught in public schools in Virginia and Minnesota.

In 1905 he left for Paris, where he met Matisse🎨, Pablo Picasso🎨, and other vanguard painters of the day and organized the art class taught by Matisse.

Rembrandt | Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630

Downcast, the biblical prophet Jeremiah leans his tired head on his hand. He mourns the burning city of Jerusalem (left background), the destruction of which he had predicted.

The most important part of the depiction - the figure of Jeremiah - is painted with great precision, while his surroundings are barely worked out.

Rembrandt used powerful contrasts of light and shadow to heighten the drama of the scene. | © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Monet and his Muse, Camille

Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 - 5 September 1879) was model, lover and wife of French ⎆ painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) ⎆, whose early paintings of her gave him his first taste of commercial and critical success.

But when Camille died young, at 32 years, after a long illness following the birth of their second child, the woman who replaced her in Monet's life was determined to obliterate her memory.

Alice, Monet's second wife, was consumed by jealousy of her departed rival and destroyed all photographic records of Camille.

Eugène Delacroix | Legacy

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a leader of the French Romantic school.

At the sale of his work in 1864, 9140 works were attributed to Delacroix, including 853 paintings, 1525 pastels and water colours, 6629 drawings, 109 lithographs, and over 60 sketch books.

The number and quality of the drawings, whether done for constructive purposes or to capture a spontaneous movement, underscored his explanation, "Colour always occupies me, but drawing preoccupies me".

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Eugène Delacroix ⎆ was a French ⎆ romantic painter regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the french Romantic school.

Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement ⎆.

A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish writer Walter Scott and the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres ⎆, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form.
Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of greek and roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic.
Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

However, Delacroix was given neither to sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire:

"Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible".