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Angelo Barabino | Pointillist / Symbolist painter

Angelo Barabino (Tortona, 1 January 1883 - Milan, 5 November 1950) was an Italian painter, friend and student of Giuseppe Pellizza Volpedo.
He was born in Tortona on 1 January 1883. Barabino attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and studying Volpedo who initiated him to painting in the Divisionism style.

Before World War participated in the National Brera with:
  • Robbery;
  • The son;
  • Wildflowers;
  • Alpine sunset.

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Pietro Gaudenzi | Genre painter

Pietro Gaudenzi (January 18, 1880 in Genoa - December 23, 1955 in Anticoli Corrado, near Rome) was an Italian painter.
His father, Enrico, was a musician from Bergamo.
He had received early training from the painter Francesco Del Santo in La Spezia, but then moved on to Genoa.
He there studied at the Accademia Ligustica of Genoa, under Cesare Viazzi.
He served in 1899 as an artist for the Genovese newspaper of Il Lavoro.


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James John Hill | Victorian painter

James John Hill RBA (1811 - 27 January 1882), known also by his alias J. J. Hill, was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts.

Early life and career

James John Hill was born sometime in 1811 in Broad Street, Birmingham to Daniel Hill, plater, and Elizabeth Rowlinson, the daughter of a brass founder.


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Emil Rau | Genre painter

Emil Rau (1858-1937) also known as E. Rau, Emil Karl Rau, was an German genre painter.
He was born in Dresden, Germany, 1858 - died Munich, Germany ca. 1937.
Emil Rau received his artistic training from Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels at the Academy in Dresden.
In 1879, he changed to the Munich Academy as a student of Alexander Wagner and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit.


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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer | Pittore simbolista

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (Algeri, 30 settembre 1865 - Le Vésinet, 24 settembre 1953) è stato un pittore, scultore e ceramista Francese.
Appartenne alla corrente pittorica dei simbolisti.


Biografia

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, era figlio di Salomon Lévy e di Pauline-Amélie Goldhurmer.
All'età di 14 anni, nell'ottobre del 1879, entrò alla "Scuola comunale superiore di disegno e scultura" dell'11° arrondissement di Parigi.
Seguì gli insegnamenti di Albert-Charles Wallet e di Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin, ambedue allievi di Alexandre Cabanel, come anche di Alexandre Vion, direttore della Scuola.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La plage du Lavandou, 1894

La plage du Lavandou (private collection), is an oil painting on canvas made in 1894 by the French🎨 painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a visitor to Le Lavandou in 1894.
Le Lavandou is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
It derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that is prevalent in the area, or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public place for washing clothes).


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Jean-Baptiste Guillaumin

Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (Parigi, 16 febbraio 1841 - Orly, 26 giugno 1927) è stato un pittore e litografo Francese, importante esponente del movimento impressionista.
Nato a Parigi, di umili origini, lavorò come commesso in una merceria prima di iscriversi nel 1861, grazie ad una vincita alla lotteria, all'Académie Suisse dove incontrò Paul Cézanne e Camille Pissarro.
Pur non raggiungendo mai la notorietà dei due amici, Guillaumin ebbe una profonda influenza sulla loro arte: Cézanne stesso tentò alcuni dei suoi lavori più innovativi dopo aver visto alcune prove dell'amico in riva alla Senna.


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Domenico Ghirlandaio | Renaissance painter

Domenico Ghirlandaio (2 June 1448 - 11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter🎨 born in Florence.
Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli🎨.
Ghirlandaio led a large and efficient workshop that included his brothers Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi from San Gimignano, and later his son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.