Maxwell Whitmore | Fashion painter / Illustrator

Maxwell Coburn Whitmore, Jr. (1913-1988) was an American painter, magazine illustrator and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other national brands.

He additionally became known as a race-car designer.

Whitmore was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978.

Jean-François Millet | Pittore Realista

Jean-François Millet (Gréville-Hague, 4 ottobre 1814 – Barbizon, 20 gennaio 1875) è stato un pittore Francese, considerato uno dei maggiori esponenti del Realismo.

Biografia

Jean-François Millet nacque il 4 ottobre 1814 a Gréville-Hague, in Normandia, primogenito di Jean-Louis-Nicolas ed Aimée-Henriette-Adélaïde Henry Millet, entrambi poveri contadini. Millet iniziò la sua precoce ma irregolare formazione su iniziativa dei genitori, che lo affidarono ad alcuni precettori privati, per poi proseguire gli studi a Cherbourg, dove giunse nel 1833 a studiare pittura sotto la guida del ritrattista Paul Dumouchel, senza per questo trascurare di aiutare la famiglia nel duro lavoro dei campi.

Robert Papp | Romantic Illustrator

Because Robert Papp's childhood drawings of his favorite superheros were such a pleasure, it was only natural that he would wind up an illustrator. Nowadays, his award-winning artwork appears on book covers and in magazines instead of on the refrigerator. He has produced hundreds of cover illustrations for major publishers across the United States. Robert lives in historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Arnold Böcklin | Modern Visionary / Symbolist painter

From: Musée d'Orsay

A major artist of the late 19th century, the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) remains little-known in France, where his art was often reduced to the fascinating icon of only one of his many masterpieces, The Isle of the Dead.

Rediscovered in the 1910s by surrealist painters - Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst in particular - who found a powerful inspiration in his fantastic and iconoclastic vision of mythology.

Pietro Paolini | Baroque painter

Pietro Paolini, called il Lucchese (3 June 1603 - 12 April 1681) was an Italian painter** of the Baroque period**. Working in Rome, Venice and finally his native Lucca, he was a follower of Caravaggio** to whose work he responded in a very personal manner. He founded an Academy in his hometown, which formed the next generation of painters of Lucca.

• Life

Pietro Paolini was born in Lucca, as the youngest son of Tommaso Paolini and Ginevra Raffaelli. His family was well-off as his mother was a descendant of a prominent Lucchese family.

Paolini‘s father sent his son to Rome to the workshop of Angelo Caroselli when he was 16 years old.