Annette Schmucker, 1957 ~ Abstract painter

Annette Schmucker, German painter, was born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria and is a self-taught artist. Schmucker's paintings are bursts of vibrant colours like bright red, blue, yellow and violet mixing together to create dynamic compositions. The earth and space communicate with each other in her extraordinary paintings and invite the viewer to feel the balance. Fire and ice. She creates works of particular brilliance in terms of colour. Annette's colour intensive works are real bundles of energy reflecting the presence of the things in the past or coming in the future.

Gregory Colbert, 1960 ~ Canadian photographer

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Gregory Colbert, Canadian photographer, is a film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.

Henri Martin | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860-1943), French painter, was born in Toulouse.
His early works were devoted to poetic and allegorical themes reflecting his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. After winning the Grand Prix he moved to Paris in 1879 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Paul Laurens.
Martin exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris from 1880, winning a medal at the 1883 Salon.

Paolo and Francesca | Inferno, Canto V | The Divine Comedy

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255 - ca. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna.

She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.

Paolo Malatesta (c. 1246-1285) was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini.

He is best known for the story of his affair with Francesca da Polenta, portrayed by Dante in a famous episode of his Inferno (Canto V). He was the brother of Giovanni (Gianciotto) and Malatestino Malatesta.

Auguste Rodin - Paolo e Francesca

Monumento a Dante in Piazza Santa Croce a Firenze, 1865

Giotto 1267-1337 ~ Gli affreschi

Giotto di Bondone, better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the Comune of Florence in virtue of his talent and excellence".