Agnolo Bronzino | Mannerist painter

Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1563) of Florence, Italy, known as Il Bronzino, was a Mannerist painter.

Mixing styles of the late High Renaissance into the early Baroque period, Mannerists often depicted their subjects in unnatural forms.

Bronzino’s works have been described as “icy” portraits that put an abyss between the subject and the viewer.

Pompei sotto l'ira del Vesuvio

L'eruzione del 79 d.C del Vesuvio è probabilmente la più nota eruzione vulcanica della storia.

Essa fu descritta da Plinio il Giovane in due lettere in cui raccontava le tragiche circostanze della morte dello zio, Plinio il Vecchio, partito con una nave dal porto militare di Miseno (Campi Flegrei) per portare soccorso agli abitanti di Pompei a seguito dell'eruzione.

Da qui il termine eruzione pliniana per questo tipo di fenomeno particolarmente violento e distruttivo.

Alexander Vereinov, 1956 | Portrait painter

Pushkin

Never underestimate the power, the brilliance, and the kindness of Alexander Vereinov. Cerebral Palsy can "only" make one appear not capable. No matter the limitations of one's body, there are those like Alexander whom are born with multiple gifts and Talents that any person would be proud to have.

Jean-François Millet | The Barbizon school of painters

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), French painter, who came of a peasant family, was born on the 4th of October 1814 in the hamlet of Gruchy, near Greville (La Manche), in the wild and picturesque district called La Hague.

His boyhood was passed working in his father's fields, but the sight of the engravings in an old illustrated Bible set him drawing, and thenceforth, whilst the others slept, the daily hour of rest was spent by Millet in trying to render the familiar scenes around him.

Odile de Schwilgué, 1952 | Surrealist figurative painter

Born in Alsace, she spent the first sixteen years of her life in a small town near Strasbourg. "She did not become a painter by chance".

She owes her talent to her maternal great-grandmother. At a time when a woman did not fulfil herself in a professional capacity, the latter - despite a premature death - left a varied collection of her work behind, including some superb frescoes in the family home.

Odile has certainly inherited her passion. Everything was a pretext to draw and paint, to the detriment of classes at college which bored her.