Hieronymus Bosch | Northern Renaissance painter

Hiëronymus Bosch, also spelled Jheronimus Bos, pseudonym of Jeroen van Aeken, Aeken also spelled Aquen or Aken, also called Jeroen Anthoniszoon (born c. 1450, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Brabant [now in the Netherlands] - buried August 9, 1516, ’s-Hertogenbosch), brilliant and original northern European painter whose work reveals an unusual iconography of a complex and individual style.

He was recognized as a highly imaginative “creator of devils” and a powerful inventor of seeming nonsense full of satirical and moralizing meaning.

Alexi Zaitsev, 1959 | Impressionist painter

Алексей Зайцев was born in Ryazan, Russia. He graduated in 1983 from the Ulianov Art School and worked as a book and magazine illustrator at the Union of Journalists of the USSR. In 1990, Alexi Zaitsev began to show his work at various fine art exhibitions and soon became one of the most talked about young Russian artists.

Alexi Zaitsev`s works are in the permanent collections of the Institute of the Russian Economy and Culture, the Russian Embassy in Ireland, the Russian Embassy in Hungary and The Art Centre of Belfast, Ireland.

John Frederick Lewis | Victorian painter

John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804 - 15 August 1876) is considered one of the most important Victorian artists to visit the Middle East.

The son of Frederick Christian Lewis, a successful engraver, he gained early success as a painter of animals and sporting subjects. In 1840-1 Lewis travelled, via Italy, Greece and Turkey, to Cairo, where he remained for the next ten years.

Lewis made nearly six hundred watercolours and drawings throughout the decade.

Hollis Dunlap, 1977 | Figurative painter

Born in northeastern Vermont, Hollis Dunlap is a painter living on the east coast of Connecticut in the USA. He paints modern paintings with a strong influence of old masters from Caravaggio to Vermeer. The color choices, brushwork, and compositions reflect the influences of various painters, from representational to more abstract in terms of composition and varying applications of paint.

From a young age he has been interested in painting and drawing, inventing imaginary figures, landscapes, and other compositions in whatever media was available.

Arunas Rutkus, 1961 | Figurative painter

Arunas Rutkus (born in Vilnius, Lithuania) is one of those rare artists who, sensing the rhythm of globalization, joined the global art stage with great confidence.

The artist has exposed his works in more than 50 personal and group exhibitions across the globe, and his artworks can be found in museums, galleries and in private collections in the USA, Qatar, Monaco, France, United Arab Emirates, China, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Hungary, Spain, Israel, New Zealand, Lithuania.

Arunas Rutkus is famous for his unique painting style, characteristic for so called Eastern school - figurative poetic symbolism, and impeccable implementation technique.

Gentile da Fabriano | Gothic Era painter

Gentile da Fabriano, original name Niccolò di Giovanni di Massio (born c. 1370, Fabriano, Papal States [Italy]-died 1427, Rome), foremost painter of central Italy at the beginning of the 15th century, whose few surviving works are among the finest examples of the International Gothic style.

Hiroshi Yoshida | Landscape painter / printmaker

Hiroshi Yoshida / 吉田 博 (September 19, 1876 - April 5, 1950) was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker.

He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints.

Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States.

Sleeping Hermaphroditos / L'Ermafrodito dormiente

The ambivalence and voluptuous curves of this figure of Hermaphroditos, who lies asleep on a mattress sculpted by Bernini, are still a source of fascination today.

His body merged with that of the nymph Salmacis, whose advances he had rejected, Hermaphroditos, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, is represented as a bisexed figure.

The original that inspired this figure would have dated from the 2nd century BC, reflecting the late Hellenistic taste for the theatrical.

Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities: Hellenistic Art (3rd-1st centuries BC) Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities - Musée du Louvre.