Robert Campin (1375-1444) | Pittore Fiammingo

L'opera di Robert Campin fu fondamentale per l'origine della pittura fiamminga, alla quale egli aprì l'orizzonte, parallelamente a Jan van Eyck, anche se con un percorso artistico diverso.

Alla sua formazione ebbero concorso da un lato i caratteri dell'arte mosano-renana, dall'altro le conquiste dello stile gotico internazionale affinate dai pittori della corte di Borgogna, allora particolarmente attiva in campo artistico, e portate alla massima altezza da Melchior Broederlam. Campin fece propri e sintetizzò gli stimoli che queste scuole avevano consolidato nel secolo precedente, ma nel contempo rinnovò in senso naturalistico la concezione della pittura: per questo può essere considerato il padre del realismo fiammingo.

Albrecht Altdorfer | Northern Renaissance painter

Albrecht Altdorfer, (born c. 1480 - died Feb. 12, 1538, Regensburg [Germany]), German painter, printmaker, and draftsman who was one of the founders of landscape painting.

Altdorfer spent most of his life in Regensburg, becoming a citizen in 1505 and in later years serving as official architect of the city and a member of its inner council. He was the guiding spirit of the Danube school of painting.

Marc Chagall | From life memories to fantasy

Chagall's early life left him with a "powerful visual memory and a pictorial intelligence", writes Goodman.

After living in France and experiencing the atmosphere of artistic freedom, his "vision soared and he created a new reality, one that drew on both his inner and outer worlds".

But it was the images and memories of his early years in Belarus that would sustain his art for more than 70 years.

Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter | Page 2

Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits.

After Peter Paul Rubens** and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day.

Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Jordaens see:

• Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter

Andrei Protsouk, 1961 | Cubist painter

Andrei Protsouk /Андрей Процюк is an Ukrainian-born figurative painter. Protsouk is a graduate of the Lugansk State School of Fine Art in 1981 as well as a "Red Diploma" graduate of the Russian Academy of Arts from St. Petersburg, Russia in 1989. Collectively, Protsouk has more than 20 years of education under his belt.