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Giotto ~ The allegories of Vices / Le allegorie dei Vizi, 1303-1305

L'ira - La Cappella degli Scrovegni

In the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, between 1303-1305, Italian painter and architect from Florence Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 - 1337), painted 14 allegories, in monochrome - seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see: Giotto ~ The allegories of Virtues / Le allegorie delle Virtù, 1303-1305 ➦

La Temperanza e l'Ira

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Joanna Sierko-Filipowska, 1960

Polish artist Joanna Sierko-Filipowska was born in 1960 in Bialystok. In 1985 she graduated Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with an honors degree. Artworks of Joanna Sierko invite the viewer into an illusory magic world, full of internal harmony, as well as memories of great holidays from a distant childhood. Looking at her paintings, we can go back there even for a moment.
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Georgios Iakovidis | Genre/Portrait painter


Greek painter Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης [1853-1932] founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens. Georgios Jakobides was one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He was one of the thirty “immortal” members of Athen’s Academy when firstly created, in 1926. His paintings, over 200, are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Patricia-Lysiane Beck

With Patricia-Lysiane Beck, creation comes to life in the magical universe of places of encounters: old bistrots, restaurants, hotel halls. In her paintings, enthusiasm and joy reach out in pure spontaneity. The emotions surrounding nostalgic places of tradition fire our imagination and in the halo of the atmosphere, transport us into light and movement. Patricia-Lysiane Beck stirs her performances with intense passion, at the tireless rhythm of life in the beauty of the moment.
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Jean-Claude Desplanques, 1936

Ancien élève à l’école des Beaux Arts, Jean-Claude Desplanques se consacre à la peinture depuis 1960. Né en Normandie en 1936, il se passionne pour le dessin dès l’âge de huit ans. Ses créatures mythiques, ses personnages mystérieux et sublimes, nous emmènent vers son univers pictural riche et fantastique, parfois théâtral, où la beauté règne.