Lorenzo Pasinelli | Baroque painter

Lorenzo Pasinelli (September 4, 1629 - March 4, 1700) was an Italian painter🎨 active mainly in Bologna during the late Baroque period.

He was born in Bologna, and initially trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini. He then pursued studies in Rome. Despite that training, his works have an air of Mannerism🎨.

In an overview of two major Bolognese painters circa 1700, one author describes that Pasinelli:

• "Lorenzo liked the design of Raphael🎨 joined with the charm of Paolo Veronese🎨; while Carlo (Cignani) liked the grace of Correggio🎨 united to the erudition of Annibale (Carracci)🎨 ... while Pisanelli did not attain a fullness of correct design, which (Veronese) had advanced ... no one will fail to recognize in Pisanelli large picturesque fire and great new ideas, but sometimes is a tad forced in his movements, and using new and bizarre clothes".

El Greco | Mannerist painter

Doménikos Theotokópoulos / Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (1541-1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

"El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), often adding the word Κρής (Krēs, "Cretan").

Donato Creti | Baroque painter

Donato Creti (24 February 1671 - 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter🎨 of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.

Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli.

He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style.

It is an academicized grand style, that crystallizes into a manneristic🎨 neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures.

Georges Seurat ed il colore

Georges Seurat (Parigi, 2 dicembre 1859 – Gravelines, 29 marzo 1891) è stato un pittore Francese, pioniere del movimento puntinista.

Seurat, intendendo portare a risoluzione gli studi sui rapporti cromatici, predispose un disco cromatico, ossia un cerchio la cui corona esterna riporta tutti i colori prismatici ed intermedi, come già aveva fatto il chimico Michel-Eugène Chevreul a partire dal 1839. La sequenza di ventidue colori, inizia con il colore blu, proseguendo con: blu oltremare, oltremare artificiale, viola, porpora, rosso porpora, carminio, rosso spurio, vermiglione, minio, arancio, giallo arancio, giallo, giallo verde, verde, verde smeraldo, blu molto verde, blu verde cianico, blu verde, blu cianico I e blu cianico II, che si riunisce al blu di partenza.

Carl Holsøe | Copenhagen Interior School

Danish painter Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (1863-1935), a leading member of the Danish school of painting in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, was highly regarded by colleagues and collectors alike.

Holsoe trained at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen with Vilhelm Hammershoi, a very close friend and mentor, from 1882-1884.

Holsoe continued his instruction at the Peder Severin Kroyer's Artists' Study School.