Vitaly Tikhov | Social realist painter

Тихов Виталий Гаврилович (1876-1939) was an Ukrainian painter, one of the best and most talented students in Vladimir Makovsky's studio.

In the early 1910s his magnificent, large-format "bath-house" paintings were especially successful and much admired, and for these he was twice awarded the graduation Gold Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, having studied there on two separate occasions.

Michelangelo | Bacchus, 1496-1497

Bacchus (1496-1497) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat over life-size and depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, in a reeling pose suggestive of drunkenness. Commissioned by Raffaele Riario, a high-ranking Cardinal and collector of antique sculpture, it was rejected by him and was bought instead by Jacopo Galli, Riario’s banker and a friend to Michelangelo. Along with the Pietà the Bacchus is one of only two surviving sculptures from the artist's first period in Rome.

Michelangelo | David, 1501-1504

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501-1504 by Michelangelo.

It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft)[a] marble statue of a standing male. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.

Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was placed instead in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

Cesare Augusto Detti | Genre painter

A painter from Spoleto who moved to Paris during the Belle Epoque, Cesare Augusto Detti (1847-1914) was an Italian artist, best known for his historical genre paintings in the nineteenth century.

Some of his works are included in the collections of the Uffizi and Galleria Borghese of Rome.

His father, Davide Detti, was an engineer and an amateur painter. As a result, his early interest in art was encouraged.

In 1861, he made the acquaintance of Francesco Coghetti, a painter from Rome who was creating murals at the Teatro Nuovo (now known as the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti).

Janet Hill | Fashion painter

Janet Hill, Canadian painter, discovered her passion for painting as a teenager. Janet’s work is both elegant, yet whimsical, often with an underlying narrative that instantly captures the imagination. Her painting style evokes a sense of nostalgia, timeless beauty, mystery, humour and comfort.

Tomek Sętowski, 1961 | Magical Realism painter

Once upon a time, a long time ago in the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic Highland Chain (Polish: Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) Tomek Sętowski was born.

Extraordinary sensitivity that characterized him as a little boy could be seen as soon as he was only three years old when his first painting was created.

A young dreamer had been developing his painting techniques for years, taking giant steps from local galleries to the top-rank exhibitions salons, and, at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Częstochowa Pedagogical University he gained knowledge of the history of art.

David FeBland, 1949 | Cityscape painter

David FeBland is an internationally recognized British artist known for contemporary figurative oil paintings and expressionist urban landscapes.

He has presented 52 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in the US, Europe and Asia.

James R. Eads, 1989 | Surrealist Illustrator | After Van Gogh

Los Angeles-based illustrator James R. Eads primarily works in acrylic and on a Wacom tablet to create high quality screenprints and giclee prints that imitate traditional painting and printmaking.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Eads see James R. Eads, 1989 | Surrealist Illustrator | The New-Age Van Gogh.