Pellizza da Volpedo | Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate, 1901

The monumental painting Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) portrays a group of workers on strike.

It symbolises the social protest at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the emergence of a new social class - the proletariat - which becomes aware of its rights within the new industrial society.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo | Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate, 1901 (detail) | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano, Milano

Achille Funi (1890-1972) | Futurist painter

Achille Funi was an Italian painter🎨 who painted in a neoclassical style.

Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906-1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movement as a painter of Cubo-Futurist works in 1914.

Having enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion and served in World War I, he became a champion of the "return to order".

Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo | Neo-Impressionist painter

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (July 28, 1868 - June 14, 1907) was an Italian Neo-Impressionist painter.

He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.

Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a Divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

Yury Darashkevich, 1962

Belarusian painter Yury Darashkevich was born in Asipovichi.

"Following my passion, I attended and graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of the Arts in 1985. Upon graduation I began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in my spare time.

After several successful solo shows in the early 90's, I started to devote my attention to my art. Shortly after making this career change, my family and I moved to Toronto Canada.

Cesare Ciani | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Cesare Ciani (1854-1925) was an Italian painter associated with the Post-Macchiaioli group.

A student of Giuseppe Ciaranfi at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1878, where he won a prize for painting, Cesare Ciani was also strongly influenced by the work of the Macchiaioli painter Giovanni Fattori, with whom he also studied.

Fattori’s guidance is readily evident in Ciani’s landscapes, city scenes and portraits, confidently painted with broad, sketchy brushstrokes.