Tomás Moragas | Orientalist painter

Tomàs Moragas i Torras (1837-1906) was a Spanish painter, known for his Orientalist and genre scenes.

Due to political turmoil, his family moved to Barcelona when he was still a baby.

He showed some talent for art at an early age and was apprenticed to a silversmith.

Later, in 1850, he attended the Escola de la Llotja, where his primary instructors were Claudi Lorenzale and Pau Milà i Fontanals.

Teodoro Duclère | Veduta painter

Carlo Teodoro Duclère (Naples, 1812-1869) was an Italian landscape painter, associated with the School of Posillipo.

His father, Jacques-François Théodore Duclère, born around 1788, was from Seine-et-Marne, France, and came to Italy during the Napoleonic Wars.

He met and married Teodoro's future mother, Costanza Lepori, in Rome and they settled in Naples, where he took a job as a customs officer.

Pasolini, la Callas e l'Amore impossibile | Le Lettere

Quando Pier Paolo Pasolini (Scrittore, poeta, autore e regista cinematografico e teatrale italiano, 1922-1975) incontra Maria Callas (Soprano americana di origine greca, uno dei cantanti lirici più famosi ed influenti del 20° secolo, 1923-1977) per la prima volta era il 1969 e stava lavorando al suo nuovo film "Medea".

Lui ricorda così la prima volta che la vide: "Una straordinaria apparizione fisica, con quei grandi occhi in un volto dagli zigomi alti, dai lineamenti e dalle espressioni che rientrano perfettamente nella mia mitologia fisionomica".

Pier Paolo Pasolini e Maria Callas sul set del film "Medea"

Attilio Simonetti | Neo-Pompeian painter

Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925) was an Italian painter and Antiquarian.

He was born and resided mainly in Rome: a son of Francesco, a Roman jeweler and engraver, and Carolina née Raffaeli, from a family of mosaicists.

He showed a talent for art at an early age, which brought him to the attention of a family friend, the painter Marià Fortuny.

At the age of sixteen, he began his formal studies.

Vincenzo Capobianchi | Neo-Pompeian painter

Vincenzo Capobianchi or Capobianchi (1836-1928) was an Italian painter born in Rome, who is best known for painting realistic Neo-Pompeian genre scenes.

He was also a prominent numismatist, and author of papers on Italian coinage.

Among his works are: The Yellow Dress (1875), Roman children practice indoor archery (1881) and The Merchant of Fine Antiquities.