Alberto Pisa | Genre painter

Alberto Pisa (1864-1936) was an Italian painter, often painting ruins, landscapes, and garden views in bright watercolor.

He initially studied in Ferrara with Gaetano Domenichini. He later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.

His first work was a Church Interior, displayed at the Promotrice. In 1887, he sent to the Exposition of Venice, the canvases depicting the Church of Santa Maria Novella, and the genre painting Donne e Madonne.

Parmigianino | Mannerist | Paintings

Parmigianino, byname of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Mazzola also spelled Mazzuoli (born Jan. 11, 1503, Parma, duchy of Milan [Italy] - died Aug. 24, 1540, Casalmaggiore, Cremona), Italian painter* who was one of the first artists to develop the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style* that became a formative influence on the post-High Renaissance* generation.

There is no doubt that Correggio was the strongest single influence on Parmigianino’s early development, but Parmigianino probably was never his pupil. The influence is apparent in Parmigianino’s first important work, the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (c. 1521).

William Merritt Chase | The Impressionist Still Lifes

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), American painter, was born in Williamsburg, Indiana, to the family of a local merchant.

Chase's father moved the family to Indianapolis in 1861 and employed his son as a salesman in the family business.

Chase showed an early interest in art, and studied under local, self-taught artists Barton S. Hays and Jacob Cox.

After a brief stint in the Navy, Chase's teachers urged him to travel to New York to further his artistic training.

He arrived in New York in 1869, met and studied with Joseph Oriel Eaton for a short time, then enrolled in the National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth, a student of the famous French artist Jean-Leon Gerome.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Quotes

• A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Peder Mork Mønsted | Poetic views of Nature

The landscape painter Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) was famous for the clarity of light general to the painters of the 'golden age' of Danish painting, his pictures of beautiful naturalistic scenery made him the leading Danish landscapist of his age.

Born at the end of the "Golden Age" of Danish painting (from around 1800 to 1860), Peder Mønsted established his reputation primarily as a naturalist landscape artist—especially admired for his poetic point of view.

His first artistic training was at the Prince Ferdinand School of Art in Aarhus, Denmark where he studied with the landscape painter Andreas Fritz, who influenced the young artist’s development.