Ricardo Sanz, 1957 | Figurative painter

Ricardo Sanz is a San Sebastián painter. His work is contemporary figurative style.

His artistic vocation was forged through his grandfather, owner of the Art Gallery La Perfecta in which he met the great artists of the painting: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vázquez Diaz, etc.

At fourteen he began his training as a painter with José Camps, while he continued his studies until graduating in History from the University of Deusto and Art History in Madrid.

In Paris and Italy continues his apprenticeship with prominent painters of the time. Finally, he settled in Madrid, where he lives and has his studio since 1980; always linked to San Sebastian, his hometown, where he spends long periods.

Greek Art History and Sitemap

Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period).

It absorbed influences of Eastern civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons, and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the Byzantine era and absorbed Italian and European ideas during the period of Romanticism (with the invigoration of the Greek Revolution), until the Modernist and Postmodernist.

Greek art is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry making.

Zorba's Dance / La Danza di Zorba, 1964

Claudio Bonanni, 1960 | Impressionist Seascape painter

Claudio Bonanni was born in Tivoli, Rome on 29th September 1960. From 1980-1986, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, then he moved to Paris to study painting under the guidance of Pio Santini, of Tivoli, moved to the French capital fifty year before.

Here he deepened the knowledge of the Impressionists, first of all Pissarro.

Paul Chabas | Academic painter

Paul Émile Chabas (1869-1937) was a French painter🎨 and illustrator and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

He was born in Nantes, and had his artistic training under William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 and Tony Robert-Fleury. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1890.

He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and in 1912 received the Médaille d’honneur🎨. His preferred subject was a young girl in a natural setting.

Ludivine Corominas, 1976 | Still life painter

French painter Ludivine Corominas is a self-taught artist, acquired her first notion of art by her father. With many elegance, fines and exquisite delicacy, Ludivine declines colors of rainbow by creating tones and nuances which light up the sun of her brushes.

The redcurrants, the luscious grapes, crystalline transparency, fine porcelains are the principal subjects of this artist: The still life.

Correggio | Jupiter and Io, 1530

Jupiter and Io is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio.

It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.

History

The series of Jupiter's Loves was conceived after the success of Venus and Cupid with a Satyr. Correggio painted four canvasses in total, although others had been programmed perhaps.

Van Gogh series | View of Saintes-Maries

Saintes-Maries is the subject of a series of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1888. When Van Gogh lived in Arles, he took a trip to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the Mediterranean sea, where he made several paintings of the seascape and town.

• Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

In June 1888 Van Gogh took a 30-mile stagecoach trip from Arles to the sea-side fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. Van Gogh's week-long trip was taken to recover from his health problems and make some seaside paintings and drawings. At that time Saintes-Maries was a small fishing village with under a hundred homes.

Giorgio Conta, 1978 | Figurative sculptor

Giorgio Conta grew up in an artistic environment where, being his father a well known artist, he came into contact with various personalities from the art and culture world, including the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michel-angeli, close friend of the family, who expressed the wish to be his Godfather. After having earned his high-school diploma he attended a sculpture school devoting himself to painting and drawing as well.