Emma Ciardi (1879-1933) | Impressionist painter

Emma Ciardi (1879-1933), Italian painter🎨 born in Venice🎨, daughter of the painter Guglielmo Ciardi and the sister of Beppe Ciardi.

Studied with her father, who taught her to paint directly from nature. Partly through her admiration for Guardi, began to paint Venetian views and the gardens of the great Italian villas with their fountains, statues, cypresses etc., animating these scenes with imaginary figures in elegant eighteenth-century costumes.

Louis Béroud | Mona Lisa al Louvre, 1911

Louis Béroud (Lione, 17 gennaio 1852 - Parigi, 9 ottobre 1930) è stato un pittore Francese.

Louis Béroud nacque a Lione, ma quando aveva nove anni la famiglia si trasferì a Parigi, dove egli avrebbe trascorso tutta la vita.

Giovanissimo, entrò nell'atelier di Léon Bonnat per studiare pittura e, già a partire dal 1873, iniziò ad esporre al Salon.

Alcuni dei suoi dipinti sono visibili al Musée Carnavalet ed al Louvre di Parigi.

Il 22 agosto 1911, Béroud entrò nel Louvre ed andò al Salon Carré dove la "Monna Lisa" era stata in mostra per cinque anni.

Ma sul muro dove il "Monna Lisa" era solito appendere, tra i Correggio "Matrimonio mistico" e di Tiziano "Allegoria di Alfonso d'Avalos", sedeva solo quattro pioli di ferro.

Louis Béroud | Mona Lisa au Louvre, 1911

James Pradier | Neoclassical sculptor

Jean-Jacques Pradier (1792-1852) was born in Geneva to a family of horologists, like his celebrated namesake Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).

He apprenticed as a watchcase engraver and then trained at Geneva's Ecole de Dessin before joining his elder brother, engraver Charles-Simon Pradier, in Paris around 1807-1808.

He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and worked with painter Baron Gérard, who remained a vital influence and ally, and studied sculpture with François-Frédéric Lemot, won the Prix de Rome in 1813, and stayed at the Villa Medici as a pensionnaire until late 1818.

Albert Desmangles, 1957 | Fantasy painter

Self-taught renowned artist Albert Desmangles was born in Port-au-Prince.

His interest in art began at a very early age.

By the age of six he was sketching faces in the dust of the school's tiles. In high school, his brother, noted artist Henry Bastien, taught him drawing, perspective and the use of color.

Bastien also gave him several lessons in gouáçhe - a technique using paints mixed with water and gum to create opaque colors.

Since 1980, he has participated in many exhibits in Haiti, Europe, United States, and Japan.

His work is highly valued by art collectors worldwide.

Valentine Cameron Prinsep | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904), often known as Val Princep was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.

For the first few years of his artistic career, Prinsep was very closely involved with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

He later gained academic honours for large decorative and historical subjects.

His family were connected with the East India Company.

Henri Lebasque | Figure et paysages

The following collection include the Landscape paintings by French post-impressionist painter Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque (1865-1937).
Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné, France.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

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Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

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Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter | Figures🎨

Giovanni Maranghi, 1955 | Mixed media painter

Giovanni Maranghi, Italian painter, was born in Lastra a Signa, near Florence. Maranghi studied at the Liceo Artistico Art High School the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence, and the Accademia di Belle Art in Florence.

He began showing his work in the mid-1970s and has had exhibitions in Italy, Holland, Belgium, United States, Turkey and France.

Just turned twenty he found space for a personal exposition at the San Frediano Gallery in Bari.

From this moment, several personal and collective expositions followed both in Italy and abroad. Among the most important dates of these first years, should be remembered the one at the Spinetti Art Gallery of Florence (1982), the one at the Dalders Gallery in Amsterdam (1985), and at the Diva Gallery of Bruxelles (1887).

Joan Brull i Vinyoles | Symbolist painter

Joan Brull i Vinyoles (1863-1912) was a Catalan symbolist painter, along with other artists including Adrià Gual, Josep Maria Tamburini, and Alexandre de Riquer.

Brull was born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Escola de la Llotja and in Paris. He later worked as an art critic for the magazine Joventut.