Frank Duveneck | Realist painter

Frank Duveneck, (born October 9, 1848, Covington, Kentucky, U.S. - died January 3, 1919, Cincinnati, Ohio), American painter, sculptor, and art teacher who helped awaken American interest in European naturalism.

At age 21 Duveneck studied in Germany with Wilhelm Dietz at the Munich Academy and was greatly influenced by the works of Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens.

Federico Zandomeneghi | A Venetian between Impressionists

Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917) was an Italian painter, known for working in the Impressionist style. His father Pietro and grandfather Luigi tried to interest him in the plastic arts, but from a very early age he showed a stronger inclination for painting. Zandomeneghi soon rebelled against their teachings, and by 1856 he was attending the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice, studying under the painters Michelangelo Grigoletti (1801-1870) and Pompeo Molmenti (1819-1894).

As a Venetian he was born an Austrian subject, and, to escape conscription, he fled his city in 1859 and went to Pavia, where he enrolled at the university.

In the following year he followed Garibaldi in the Expedition of the Thousand; afterwards, having been convicted of desertion and therefore unable to return to Venice, he went to Florence, where he remained from 1862-1866. This period was essential for his artistic development.

Larissa Morais, 1966 | Figurative / Still Life painter

L'artista Russa Larissa Morais / Лариса Морейс è nata e cresciuta a Mosca.

Dipinge da quando era al liceo, ma il suo primo amore non era il pennello, ma i tasti di un pianoforte.

Mentre aiutava la sorella un pomeriggio a fare i compiti dell'arte qualcosa ha scatenato la sua passione per la pittura e forse inciampato sul suo destino.

La Morais si è laureata al Moscow Theatrical Arts Institute e ha frequentato la Scuola di specializzazione in Restauro e conservazione.

La sua materia preferita è la figura umana con l'attenzione al dettaglio.

Tutta la sua opera è concepita da uno schizzo che poi dipinge su una grande tela nera con strati molto sottili di pittura ad olio.

Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | Abstract Figurative painter

Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская"🎨 was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In 1983, she graduated from Leningrad Serov Art college, Interior Design Department.

In 1998 she finished the studio school specializing in Old Masters painting techniques. Podgaevskaya🎨 is an author of more than 500 works, with her paintings being part of numerous art shows in Russia, Europe and Asia.

Many of her paintings are in private Russian, American and Western European collections, as well as in Pulkovo Observatory collection, Saint-Petersburg State University and the Slovak Embassy in Moscow.

Honoré Daumier | The Michelangelo of caricature

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Marseilles; He showed in his earliest youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, and subsequently with a bookseller.