Paolo Veronese | Renaissance painter

Paolo Veronese, byname of Paolo Caliari (born 1528, Verona, Republic of Venice [Italy]-died April 9, 1588, Venice), one of the major painters of the 16th-century Venetian school.

His works usually are huge, vastly peopled canvases depicting allegorical, biblical, or historical subjects in splendid colour and set in a framework of classicizing Renaissance architecture.

A master of the use of colour, he also excelled at illusionary compositions that extend the eye beyond the actual confines of the room.

Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田-郎, 1954 | Bijin-ga Art

Ichiro Tsuruta was born in Hondo-shi (current Amakusa-shi), Kumamoto. He grew up surrounded by rich nature of Amakusa area.

He has liked to paint since his childhood. After graduating from high school, he entered Tama Art University, majored in graphic design and tried to become an illustrator.

In early days when he started professional painting, as he painted realistic pictures influenced by Western culture, he began to be conscious that "he is Japanese" and gradually devoted himself to Japanese unique sense of beauty such as the Rimpa or Maitreya of Buddhism art and "Bijine (beautiful woman portraits)" or "Onnae (romantic painting)" of Ukiyoe prints.

Lee Bogle, 1946 | Native American Love

Lee Bogle's🎨 technical skills as a draftsman are especially evident in his renderings of the human figure.

He combines vivid, realistic detail with expressive qualities of abstraction🎨 in the Oriental tradition.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Bogle, see:

• Lee Bogle, 1946 | Native American Art*.

Fred Wessel, 1946 | Egg Tempera painter

Fred Wessel is a Professor of Printmaking at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, where he teaches drawing, tempera painting and lithography. He also leads workshops in Italy to paint and study the Italian Renaissance.

He particularly looks to the early Renaissance for inspiration, saying "The ever-changing inner light that radiates from gold leaf used judiciously on the surface of a painting, and the use of pockets of rich, intense colors that illuminate the picture's surface impressed me deeply".

Lori Earley | Pop surrealism painter

Lori Earley is a contemporary surrealist* figurative artist who began exhibiting her works in 2004. Born and raised in New York, Earley was an accomplished and gifted artist from a young age.
As a maturing adolescent, she discovered her distinct style and fondness for painting deeply personal subject matter.
She then began her journey towards becoming a professional oil painter through fine art training at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Eric Barjot | Vintage style painter

The following collection include Still-life paintings in vintage style by French painter* Eric Barjot.

Kevin Beilfuss, 1963

Kevin Beilfuss è un pittore Americano che vive a Chicago.

Ha frequentato l'Illinois State University, conseguendo il Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in pittura nel 1985.

Dopo aver lavorato in un'agenzia pubblicitaria per un anno, Beilfuss ha frequentato l'American Academy of Art, dove si è concentrato sulla pittura e l'illustrazione.

Rodrigo Zaniboni | Figurative / Plein air painter

Rodrigo Zaniboni is a Brazilian painter from the São Paulo countryside. His brushstrokes have a contemporaneous, realistic style reminiscent of the Impressionists*. Zaniboni uses a very particular palette to emphasize the correct use of the color scale, and the technique of painting by layers is one of his strongest skills; he uses the technique in his routine work and considers it one of the most important activities for artist.