Hendrick van Steenwyck II | Baroque painter of architectural interiors

Hendrick van Steenwijk the Younger's (1580-1649) early style resembled that of his father, an architecture painter.

He likely spent several years in Antwerp, though he apparently was not enrolled in its painters' guild.

Van Steenwijk's architectural interiors of this period are frequently populated with figures by Jan Brueghel the Elder and other Flemish painters who worked in Antwerp.

Édouard Manet | Artworks and Quotes

Édouard Manet, (born January 23, 1832, Paris, France - died April 30, 1883, Paris), French painter who broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time.

His Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés, aroused the hostility of critics and the enthusiasm of the young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionist group.

His other notable works include Olympia (1863) and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882).

Agnolo Bronzino | Hands

Agnolo di Cosimo (1503-1572), usually known as Bronzino or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence.

His sobriquet, Bronzino, may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair.

He lived all his life in Florence, and from his late 30s was kept busy as the court painter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

He was mainly a portraitist but also painted many religious subjects, and a few allegorical subjects, which include what is probably his best known work, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, c. 1544-45, now in London.

Diego Rivera | Social Realist painter / muralist

Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) had a profound effect on the international art world.

Among his many contributions, Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture.

His radical political views and tempestuous romance with the painter Frida Kahlo were then, and remain today, a source of public intrigue.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Vita ed opere

Tièpolo, Giambattista - Pittore (Venezia 1696 - Madrid 1770), tra i massimi esponenti del rococò e ultimo grande protagonista della decorazione monumentale in Europa.

Tièpolo lavorò in Italia e all'estero, lasciando numerose opere, nelle quali, sempre aggiornato sulle ultime tendenze artistiche, mostra una stupefacente capacità di assorbire con naturalezza le intonazioni stilistiche dai più differenti pittori, rielaborandole poi con la propria sensibilità e una tecnica rapida.

Grazie a lui la tradizione decorativa veneziana tornò a imporsi sulla scena artistica del suo tempo.

Tra le opere più significative dell'evoluzione della sua arte vi sono gli affreschi del palazzo arcivescovile di Udine (1726-30), le tele per la Scuola del Carmine a Venezia (1743), uno dei suoi capolavori, e gli affreschi per la residenza di Carlo Filippo di Greiffenklau a Würzburg (1751-53).