Elihu Vedder | Symbolist painter

Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 - January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet, born in New York City.

He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).

Elihu Vedder was born February 26, 1836 in New York City, the son of Dr. Elihu Vedder Sr. and Elizabeth Vedder. His parents were cousins. His father, a dentist, decided to try his luck in Cuba, and this had a profound impact on Elihu Jr.'s childhood.

Denis Nolet, 1964 | Romantic painter

Canadian painter* Denis Nolet preferring moonlight to sunlight. He paints scenes saturated with the romance of the night. Denis Nolet was born in Quebec.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Nolet see Denis Nolet, 1964 | Night Tango in Paris*.

Paris painting

"Paris is an ocean.

Explore it, and you still won’t know its depths".

Honoré de Balzac

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter, 1853-1890)

Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi - Io ti cielo, 1947

Today, Wednesday 22 of January 1947

You rain on me - I sky you

You’re the fineness, childhood,

life - my love - little boy - old man

mother and center - blue - tender-

ness - I hand you my

universe and you live me

It is you whom I love today.

= I love you with all my loves

Gerard ter Borch | Baroque Era painter

Gerard Terborch, Terborch also spelled Ter Borch or Terburg (born 1617, Zwolle, Netherlands - died December 8, 1681, Deventer), Dutch Baroque painter who developed his own distinctive type of interior genre in which he depicted with grace and fidelity the atmosphere of well-to-do, middle-class life in 17th-century Holland.

Terborch’s father had been an artist and had visited Rome but from 1621 was employed as a tax collector. Surviving drawings made by the young Terborch in 1625 and 1626 are proudly inscribed and dated by his father. In 1632 Gerard was in Amsterdam, and in 1634 he was a pupil of Pieter de Molijn in Haarlem.

Anne-Louis Girodet | Neoclassical painter

Anne-Louis Girodet [Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson 1767-1824] is a French painter whose works exemplify the first phase of Romanticism in French art.

Girodet began to study drawing in 1773. He later became a student of the Neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée, with whose encouragement he joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David in late 1783 or early 1784.

Girodet won the Prix de Rome 1789 for his Joseph Recognized by His Brothers, which shows the influence of David’s Neoclassicism.

Camille Pissarro | Paris painting

- "When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart".

- "It is absurd to look for perfection".

- "Quando fai una cosa con tutta la tua anima e con tutto ciò che è nobile dentro di te, trovi sempre la tua controparte".

Camille Pissarro*

Johan Barthold Jongkind | Landscape painter

Johan Barthold Jongkind (born June 3, 1819, Lattrop, Neth.- died Feb. 9, 1891, Côte-Saint-André, France) painter and printmaker whose small, informal landscapes continued the tradition of the Dutch* landscapists while also stimulating the development of Impressionism*.

Jongkind first studied under local landscape painters at The Hague. In 1846 he moved to Paris and worked under the genre painter* Eugène Isabey and François Picot.