Hans Zatzka | Academic painter

Austrian painter Hans Zatzka (1859-1949) -also known as P. Ronsard, Zabateri, Pierre de Ronsard, Joseph Bernard and Bernárd Zatzka- was born in Vienna, to a builder and his viennese actress wife, Hilde Sochor.

Zatzka showed an early interest in painting.

From 1877-1882 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studying under Christian Griepenkerl, Karl Wurzinger and Carl of Blaas.

In 1880, at the age of 20, he was awarded the Golden Füger medal; the golden decoration for services to the city Vienna.

Ivan Aivazovsky | Romantic painter

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky / Ива́н Константи́нович Айвазо́вский (1817-1900) became the most prolific Russian painter of his time.

Early in his career, he was elected a member of five Academies of Fine Arts, including those of St. Petersburg (his Alma Mater). Rome, Florence, Stuttgart and Amsterdam.

He was an Academician at 27, and Professor of Marine Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, at the age of 30.

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, 1540 | Testo Integrale

Leonardo da Vinci rimane l'unico artista pensatore che ha accentrato il suo pensiero scientifico e filosofico sulla pittura in genere, sulla pittura che egli stesso faceva e su quella che si preparava per l'avvenire.

"Il Trattato della Pittura" va considerato come il programma fondamentale dell'arte, ed è qui presentato come una serie di apparati che consentono al lettore di coglierne la straordinaria ricchezza delle esperienze, riflessioni e scoperte, geniali anche quando sembrano contraddire l'armonia da esse medesime intuita nel caos del mondo.

Richard E. Miller (1875-1943) | Page 2

Richard E. Miller, also known as: Richard Emil Miller, Richard Edward Miller, Richard Emile Miller, Richard E. Miller, was an American painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists.

Miller was primarily a Figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings.

Miller grew up in St. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled in Giverny. Upon his return to America, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California and then in the art colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Fernand Pelez | Genre / Academic painter

Fernand Pelez (January 18, 1843 - August 7, 1913) was a French painter** of Spanish origin who worked in Paris. Pelez portrayed social issues in a realistic style.

Pelez was born in Paris. His father, Fernand Pelez de Cordova (1820-1899), was a Parisian painter** as well, and was one of his teachers.

Pelez was a commercial failure in the 1880s, and after the failure of his L'Humanité at the Salon of 1896, Pelez became something of a recluse, refusing to exhibit or sell his work.

Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884) | Genre painter

Marie Bashkirtseff, original name Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, (born November 12 [November 24, New Style], 1858, Gavrontsy, Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire - died October 19 [October 31], 1884, Paris, France), Russian émigré best known for her sensitive and girlishly candid autobiography in French, Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff, avec un portrait, 2 vol. (1887). Though her diary is justly responsible for her reputation, she was also a highly talented visual artist and a high-spirited feminist.

Bashkirtseff was the daughter of Russian minor nobility, and she spent a peripatetic childhood with her mother - her parents had separated after two years of marriage - in Germany and on the Riviera until they settled in Paris.

Titian | The Music Lesson / La lezione di musica, 1535

Artist: Possibly by Titian (Italian High Renaissance painter, 1488/90 -1576)

Full title: The Music Lesson

Date made about: 1535

Medium and support: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 99 x 120 cm

Current location: The National Gallery, London.

This work used to be dated to the early 17th century, but recent cleaning and technical examination have shown that it has much in common with paintings produced by Titian and his workshop in the 1530s.

Alfredo Roldan, 1965 | Figurative Cubism painter

Alfredo Roldàn was born in Madrid. At the age of 22, having had no formal artistic training, he started drawing professionally, selling his work in street markets, at the same time presenting his work at major competitions, of which he won several.

It was on winning the award granted by the City Council of Madrid in 1994 that he was discovered by a major gallery.

His winning painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, Madrid.

In 1996 he was named a Member of the Senate "Honoris Causa" of the Academy of Modern Art of Rome.