Filippo Palizzi | Pastore addormentato con il suo cane, 1850-1855

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) con il fratello Giuseppe, rappresenta il primo tentativo di un indirizzo verista nella pittura italiana dell'Ottocento.

Sulla scia della Scuola di Posillipo e di una spontanea inclinazione orientò il suo lavoro verso una dettagliata osservazione del vero.

Fu tra i primi pittori a interessarsi di fotografia ed a praticarla, sulla base di conoscenze tecniche molto approfondite.

Filippo Palizzi | Verist painter

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter. Filippo Palizzi was born in Vasto (Chieti).

He moved to Naples in 1837 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but withdrew after a few months to attend the private school of the painter Giuseppe Bonolis.

Contact with his brother Giuseppe, who moved to France in 1844, introduced him to the painting of the Barbizon School.

Tanvi Pathare | Figurative painter

Tanvi Pathare, born in Mumbai, India, showed a growing interest in the fine arts since a very early age. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting. Following the allure of the realistic tradition of painting from nature, Tanvi attended The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy, graduating from the Painting Program in 2012.

Lionel Percy Smythe | Victorian landscape watercolors painter

Lionel Percy Smythe (1839-1918) was Wyllie's older half-brother and the eldest of three illegitimate children that their mother, Katherine Benham, a singer, had with Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (though the family always claimed a marriage).

He was born in London on 4 September 1839 and spent his early years in France, where his younger sister and brother were born, though the family returned to London in 1843 and lived in Gloucester Crescent, Camden.

Leonardo da Vinci | Differenza tra la Pittura e la Scultura

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 32

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Tra la pittura e la scultura non trovo altra differenza, senonché lo scultore conduce le sue opere con maggior fatica di corpo che il pittore, ed il pittore conduce le opere sue con maggior fatica di mente.

Provasi cosí esser vero, conciossiaché lo scultore nel fare la sua opera fa per forza di braccia e di percussione a consumare il marmo, od altra pietra soverchia, ch'eccede la figura che dentro a quella si rinchiude, con esercizio meccanicissimo, accompagnato spesse volte da gran sudore composto di polvere e convertito in fango, con la faccia impastata, e tutto infarinato di polvere di marmo che pare un fornaio, e coperto di minute scaglie, che pare gli sia fioccato addosso; e l'abitazione imbrattata e piena di scaglie, e di polvere di pietre.

Guy Rose (1867-1925) | Impressionist painter

Guy Rose was an American painter who is recognized as one of California's top Impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Guy Orlando Rose was born March 3, 1867 in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose.

His father was a prominent California senator. He and his wife raised their large family on an expansive Southern California ranch and vineyard - the San Gabriel Valley town of Rosemead bears the family name. In 1876 young Guy Rose was accidentally shot in the face during a hunting trip with his brothers. While recuperating he began to sketch and use watercolors and oil paints.

Albrecht Dürer | Woodcuts and Engravings

Undisputed master of the woodcut, German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is one of the most celebrated Northern Renaissance painters and printmakers. His original etchings, engravings and woodcuts contain exquisite detail and elaborate imagery drawing on religious and philosophical ideas.

For biographical notes notes -in english and italian- on Dürer see Albrecht Dürer ~ Renaissance painter.

Albrecht Dürer | Hands study

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.

He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.