Domenico Fetti | Baroque painter

Biography from: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Domenico Fetti (1589-1623) was born in 1589, almost certainly in Rome, and is known to have been educated at the Collegio Romano.

He probably received his initial artistic training from his father, Pietro Fetti, a painter, perhaps from Ferrara, about whom very little is known.

Contemporary sources refer to Domenico Fetti as a student of Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli (1559-1613).

Domenico could have entered Cigoli's shop as early as 1604, the year in which the Florentine painter came to Rome.

Walter Firle | Genre painter

Walter Firle or Walther Firle (1859-1929) was a portrait and genre painter.

Walter Firle received lessons in painting from an early age.

In 1879 he attended the Munich Academy of Art, where he was a student of Alois Gabl, Ludwig von Löfftz and Gabriel von Hackl.

During a stay in Italy the artist created numerous landscapes as well as beach and town views.

Anthony de Mello: "La vita è quella cosa che ci accade mentre siamo occupati a fare altri progetti"

• "La vita è quella cosa che ci accade mentre siamo occupati a fare altri progetti. Siamo intenti a far colpo sugli altri. Siamo indaffarati per vincere le olimpiadi, per avere successo. E la vita ci scivola via dalle mani".

• "Nel momento in cui trasformi un bambino nella fotocopia di un altro individuo, tu calpesti e spegni la scintilla di originalità con cui è venuto al mondo".

• "La solitudine non si cura con la compagnia umana. La solitudine si cura attraverso il contatto con la realtà".

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Ginevra Cantofoli

Italian painter, 1618-1672

Ginevra Cantofoli trained under Giovanni Andrea Sirani, the father of Elisabetta Sirani, in Bologna.

Although a generation older than Elisabetta Sirani, Cantofoli was described by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Cesare Masini and Marcello Oretti as Elisabetta's student.

Ginevra Cantofoli | Woman in a Turban, 1650 | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, Roma.

Orsola Caccia (1596-1676) | Mannerist painter

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, born Theodora Caccia (1596-1676) was an Italian Mannerist painter and Catholic nun.

She painted religious images, altarpieces, and still lifes.

The daughter of painter Guglielmo Caccia and Laura Olivia, she was baptized Theodora Orsola on December 4, 1596.

In 1620, she entered the Ursulines convent at Bianzè, where she changed her name to Orsola Maddalena after she took her vows.