Raffaello Sanzio | Holy Family below the Oak, 1518

Leaning on a classical ruin, Saint Joseph looks at the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in her lap. Jesus, in turn, is receiving a roll with the words Ecce Agnus Dei from Saint John.

This Latin inscription meaning Lamb of God refers to the Passion of Christ, who sacrifices himself, just as lambs were sacrified by the Jews, in order to save humanity from sin.

The oak tree standing behind the main group gives its name to the work and separates the figures from the background landscape and the ruins of the Caracalla Baths on the left.

Alan Craig, 1971 | Pop Surrealist painter

Craig Alan was born in San Bernardino, California. Though he was always drawn to the artistic side of life, Craig's creative luminance did not wholly shine until his family transferred to New Orleans in his youth.

It was here that Craig's capacity for detailed visual interpretation took root. In this city by the sea, rich in its culture and outlets for creative expression, Craig began exploring his own ingenious impulses.

Franz von Lenbach | Ritrattista

Franz von Lenbach nasce a Schrobenhausen, in Baviera, il 13 dicembre 1836. Figlio di un costruttore, studia presso la scuola tecnica di Landshut per seguire la professione del padre.

Nel 1851 comincia a lavorare a Monaco nello studio di scultura di Anselm Sickinger. Grazie al fratello maggiore, Karl August Lenbach, incontra Johann Baptist Hofner, un artista formatosi alla Akademie der Bildenden Künsten di Monaco, il quale lo introduce al disegno ed alla pittura.

Dopo aver frequentato per due semestri il Politecnico di Augsburg (1852-53) e per alcuni mesi lo studio del pittore di ritratti Albert Gräfle, nel 1854 entra all’Akademie di Monaco.

Myrtille Henrion Picco, 1952 | Neo-Surrealist painter

French painter🎨 Myrtille Henrion Picco was born in Nancy, France. Child, she doodles everywhere and all the time.

But this is the photography in first that attracts her, as enought to do it her job.

She waives this passion when she understands how her look has become analytical, "rectangular" and cold as the metal of her camera. The camera lens separates her to the world.

Olga Darchuk /Ольга Дарчук, 1976 | Impressionist painter

Ukrainian artist Olga Darchuk was born in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region.

Graduated from art school and Krivoy Rog pedagogical University, faculty of artistic graphics.

Still wrote his first five years in the garden of the Krivoy Rog artist, from which it got its first recognition, and her mother, in turn, received a recommendation to send her daughter to art school.

With six years visited the studio of Fine Arts, and in 1986 he enrolled in art school, which successfully disaccustomed 4 years the artist Chumatchenko AN.