Giovanni Boldini | La Belle Epoque

From: The British Museum

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Born in Ferrara, the son of the painter Antonio Boldini (1792-1872), from whom he received his first artistic training, Giovanni Boldini studied at the Civico Ateneo di Palazzo dei Diamanti in his native city, where he had established a reputation as an accomplished portrait painter by the time he was 18.

In 1862 he went to Florence, where he met artists in the Macchiaioli circle at the Caffé Michelangiolo, while attending the Scuola del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Michele Gordigiani (1830-1909), the leading portrait painter in Tuscany, passed on some of his commissions to Boldini.

Boldini saw and admired the paintings of Courbet and Manet at the Exposition Universelle in 1867 on a visit to Paris, where he met Degas, who became a lifelong friend.

Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938)

Marianne von Werefkin /Мариа́нна Влади́мировна Верёвкина (10 September [O.S. 29 August] 1860, Tula, Russia - 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina), was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Ancient Asian art

The history of Asian art or Eastern art, includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions.

Developments in Asian art historically parallel those in Western art, in general a few centuries earlier.

Chinese art🎨, Indian art, Korean art, Japanese art🎨, each had significant influence on Western art, and, vice versa.

Near Eastern art also had a significant influence on Western art. Excluding prehistoric art, the art of Mesopotamia represents the oldest forms of Asian art.

Joachim Beuckelaer | Genre painter

From an Antwerp family of painters, Joachim Beuckelaer (1533-1575) trained in the studio of Pieter Aertsen.

In 1560 he became an independent master, and continued to develop themes in painting pioneered by Aertsen, arguably surpassing him in skill.

Edouard Toudouze | Genre painter

Édouard Toudouze (1848-1907) was a French painter, illustrator and decorative artist.

He was born to an artistically accomplished family.

His father, Auguste Gabriel Toudouze (1811-1854) was an architect and engraver.

His mother, Adèle Anaïs Colin (1822-1899), a well known illustrator, was the daughter of Alexandre-Marie Colin and a descendant of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638) | Genre painter

Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde, c. 1605 - Antwerp, January 1638) was a Flemish painter🎨 active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.

Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other 'lower class' individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings.

Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression.

In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters.

Alessandro Pomi (1890-1976) | Impressionist painter

Italian painter🎨 Alessandro Pomi was a pupil of Ettore Tito🎨 at the Academy of Belle Arti in Venice and then he completed his studies in Munich and Rome.

It was 1910, his first exposure to Ca Pesaro and two years later at the Venice Biennale where returns in 14 years, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1942, 1948.

He participated in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad Pittsburgh, London, Buenos Aires, Monaco Munich, Milan, Venice, Treviso, etc.

Among the many works the great altarpiece made in Sydney and paintings of the Way of the Cross for the Cathedral of Treviso.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Ballet dancers

Antonio Sgarbossa is one of the most appreciated and well known painters in Italy and abroad.

In art Antonio looks for something that is beyond our normal vision. It is the rather mysterious side that appears, with all the emotions and the thrills of the soul.

He harmoniously transfers it under a pictorial light, into a world that becomes fabulous, as our eyes discover it; loaded with suggestions; extremely sweet in its chromatic harmony; capricious in its images and in continuous movement, ready to capture us deeply and allow us to dream. He has shown the authentic quality of a painter. It is worth observing his paintings deeply, to taste its suggestive magic.