Lorenzo Lotto | High Renaissance painter

Lorenzo Lotto, (born c. 1480, Venice [Italy]-died 1556, Loreto, Papal States), late Renaissance Italian painter* known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects. He represents one of the best examples of the fruitful relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian (Marche) schools.

Master of the Female Half-Lengths | Renaissance painter

The Master of the Female Half-Lengths*, active ca.1530-1540, was a Dutch* Northern Renaissance painter* or likely a group of painters of a workshop.

The name was given in the 19th century to identify the maker or makers of a body of work consisting of 67 paintings to which since 40 more have been added.

The works were apparently the product of a large workshop that specialized in small-scale panels depicting aristocratic young ladies at half-length.

Guy Denning, 1965 | Abstract painter

Guy Denning, born in North Somerset, has been obsessed with visual art since childhood and started painting in oils at the age of eleven after receiving a set of old paints from a relative that had grown bored with them.

Through the 1980s he was repeatedly unsuccessful in his applications to study painting at degree level but continued painting whilst studying art history with the Open University and learning painting technique from older painters he knew in the west of England.

Cayetano De Arquer Buigas | Impressionist painter

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas (1932-2012) was a Catalan contemporary figurative painter, especially known for capturing the beauty, sensitivity and delicacy of women of his era through pastel, oil and charcoal techniques.

With an equal mastery, he explored portraiture, figure studies, equestrian subjects, landscapes, scenes of daily life, maternity, taverns and more.

Arquer Buigas stands as perhaps one of the most emblematic inheritors of 19th-century Catalan and French Impressionist style (seen in artists such as Ramón Casas and Eduard Degás).

With his elegant, restrained color palette and compelling balance between composition and subject choices, Buigas’s output has afforded him the status of a beloved, enduring master.

Master of the Female Half-Lengths / Maestro delle mezze figure | Santa Caterina, 1530

Title: Saint Catherine

Author: Master of the Female Half-Lengths (1525-1550)

Date: 1530

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: cm 45 x 36

Current location: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan