Francisco Goya | Drawing

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era.

Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

Panayiotis Beldekos, 1962 | Abstract Figurative painter

Panayiotis Beldekos / Παναγιώτης Μπελντέκος was born in Athens. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1987‑1992) under Demosthenis Kokkinidis, Tassos Christakis and Michalis Manousakis.

In 1995 he was awarded a two‑year scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, and continued his studies in painting with Panayiotis Tetsis.

Since 1992 he has been active in art education.

From 1995-1998 he taught painting at the Athens College educational programs.

William Merritt Chase | Pittore Impressionista

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) è stato un pittore statunitense, noto per il suo impegno a favore dell'Impressionismo e per le sue doti di insegnante.

Formatosi in America, conclude l’istruzione a Monaco di Baviera, ma schiarisce poi i colori a Venezia.

Rimpatria ed inizia ad insegnare istituendo una scuola a New York e la Summer School a Shinnecock, Long Island, fondata sulla pittura En plein air (1891-1902).

In Europa organizza corsi estivi d’istruzione: tre a Firenze, dove acquista Villa Silli.

Alberto Pisa | Genre painter

Alberto Pisa (1864-1936) was an Italian painter, often painting ruins, landscapes, and garden views in bright watercolor.

He initially studied in Ferrara with Gaetano Domenichini. He later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.

His first work was a Church Interior, displayed at the Promotrice. In 1887, he sent to the Exposition of Venice, the canvases depicting the Church of Santa Maria Novella, and the genre painting Donne e Madonne.

Parmigianino | Mannerist | Paintings

Parmigianino, byname of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Mazzola also spelled Mazzuoli (born Jan. 11, 1503, Parma, duchy of Milan [Italy] - died Aug. 24, 1540, Casalmaggiore, Cremona), Italian painter* who was one of the first artists to develop the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style* that became a formative influence on the post-High Renaissance* generation.

There is no doubt that Correggio was the strongest single influence on Parmigianino’s early development, but Parmigianino probably was never his pupil. The influence is apparent in Parmigianino’s first important work, the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (c. 1521).

William Merritt Chase | The Impressionist Still Lifes

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), American painter, was born in Williamsburg, Indiana, to the family of a local merchant.

Chase's father moved the family to Indianapolis in 1861 and employed his son as a salesman in the family business.

Chase showed an early interest in art, and studied under local, self-taught artists Barton S. Hays and Jacob Cox.

After a brief stint in the Navy, Chase's teachers urged him to travel to New York to further his artistic training.

He arrived in New York in 1869, met and studied with Joseph Oriel Eaton for a short time, then enrolled in the National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth, a student of the famous French artist Jean-Leon Gerome.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Quotes

• A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Paul Cadmus | Life and artworks

The American artist Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) was a Thirty year old unknown, outside of his own New York bohemian circles, painter in 1934, but then he became famous, or should we say, infamous almost overnight when a major artistic scandal erupted over his risqué, and much publicized painting, The Fleet’s In!

The painting depicts US sailors on rowdy and lecherous shore leave and it aroused the anger and ire of US Navy top brass, not only for its depiction of the Navy but also its obvious sexual connotations that fed into the myth of naval life.