Venus de Milo

This graceful statue of a goddess has intrigued and fascinated since its discovery on the island of Melos in 1820.

Is it Aphrodite, who was often portrayed half-naked, or the sea goddess Amphitrite, who was venerated on Melos?

The statue reflects sculptural research during the late Hellenistic Period: classical in essence, with innovatory features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips.

Terry Miura, 1964 | Abstract Figurative painter

Terry Miura was born in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Art Center College of Design in 1990, Terry Miura headed out to New York City to pay his dues.

He began his career as a freelance illustrator, creating imagery for such clients as Time, Newsweek, Rollingstone, and Sports Illustrated, to name a few.

In between illustration assignments he painted and exhibited cityscapes, and continued his transition to becoming a full time painter after returning to the West Coast in 1996.

Eugène Delacroix | Romantic / Orientalist painter

Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene (1798-1863) was born in 1798, the son of Charles Delacroix who had served briefly as minister of foreign affairs under the Directory and who was on a mission to Holland, as the ambassador of the French Republic, at the time of his son's birth.

His mother, Victoire Oeben, was descended from a family of artisans and craftsmen.

Eanger Irving Couse | Tao Society artist

Eanger Irving Couse (September 3, 1866 - April 26, 1936) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists.

He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest.

His house and studio in Taos have been preserved as the Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio - Joseph Henry Sharp Studios, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties.

Pablo Neruda / Jeremy Mann | Sonnet XXVII

Nuda sei semplice come una delle tue mani,

liscia, terrestre, minima, rotonda, trasparente,

hai linee di luna, strade di mela,

nuda sei sottile come il grano nudo.

Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,

Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round:

You have moonlines, applepathways:

Naked, you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938)

Vincenzo Migliaro (Napoli, 8 ottobre 1858 - Napoli, 16 marzo 1938) è stato un pittore, scultore ed incisore Italiano, di scuola napoletana.

Dopo aver appreso l'arte dell'intaglio ai corsi della Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana ed aver frequentato lo studio di Stanislao Lista, si iscrive nel 1875 all'Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli e si forma sotto la guida di Domenico Morelli.

Nel 1877 compie un breve viaggio a Parigi, dove si sofferma a studiare le opere esposte al Museo del Louvre.

Vincenzo Migliaro | Genre painter

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938) was an Neapolitan painter.

He was born in Salerno. He first studied under Gaetano D'Agostino, but later enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples, where he studied under Filippo Palizzi, Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista.

In these studies, he was funded by a stipend from the government of Salerno.

Giulio Romano | Mannerist painter

Giulio Romano🎨, original name Giulio Pippi, in full Giulio di Pietro di Filippo de’ Giannuzzi, (born 1492/99, Rome [Italy] - died Nov. 1, 1546, Mantua, Duchy of Mantua), late Renaissance painter🎨 and architect, the principal heir of Raphael🎨, and one of the initiators of the Mannerist style🎨.

Giulio was apprenticed to Raphael🎨 as a child and had become so important in the workshop that by Raphael’s death, in 1520, he was named with G. Penni as one of the master’s chief heirs; he also became his principal artistic executor.

After Raphael’s death, Giulio completed a number of his master’s unfinished works, including the Transfiguration. In his original work from these years, such as the Madonna and Saints (c. 1523) and the Stoning of St. Stephen (1523), Giulio developed a highly personal, anticlassical style of painting.