Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935)

Gustave Loiseau nasce a Parigi il 3 ottobre 1865; sarebbe diventato uno dei più importanti pittori post-impressionisti.

Dopo il servizio militare e dopo aver lavorato per l'azienda di famiglia, Loiseau visitò Pont Aven nel 1890, dove lavorò sotto la guida di Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), dopo il ritorno di quest'ultimo dalla sua prima visita a Tahiti.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Sonnet X | The Portrait

O Lord of all compassionate control,

O Love! let this my lady's picture glow

⁠Under my hand to praise her name, and show

Even of her inner self the perfect whole:

That he who seeks her beauty's furthest goal,

⁠Beyond the light that the sweet glances throw

Giovanni Bellini | High Renaissance painter

Italian painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) was the founder of the Venetian school of painting and raised Venice to a center of Renaissance art that rivaled Florence and Rome. He brought to painting a new degree of realism, a new wealth of subject matter, and a new sensuousness in form and color.

Perhaps more than any other, Giovanni Bellini [Giambellino] was an artist who passed through different periods and cultural revolutions.

He, before Leonardo, was the great inventor of the representation of sentiment and nature, painting works of extraordinary poetry, landscapes that brought together everything that had been seen until then in Italy and Europe, with the human figure totally immersed in the surrounding space.

Botticelli | Venus and the Three Graces..

Artist: Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510).

Title: Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus.

Year: 1483-1486.

Type: Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas.

Dimensions: 211 cm × 283 cm (83 in × 111 in).

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Le Pho | Pittore romantico

Lê Phổ / 黎谱 (1907-2001) è stato un pittore impressionista e romantico Vietnamita.

Dipinse scenari del Vietnam, nature morte con fiori, ambientazioni familiari e ritratti.

Le donne vietnamite, spesso ritratte come figure allungate che evocano l'influenza del surrealismo, sono state un tema ricorrente nel suo lavoro.

Dal 1925-1930, Lê Phổ studiò all'Ecole des Beaux-Arts di Hanoi.

Tina Spratt, 1976 | Figurative painter

British painter🎨 Tina Spratt is best known for her paintings of the female figure, either in oils or pastel, her subjects are often lost in introspection, or surrounded by the fascinating textures of a myriad of fabrics.

"I have always been drawn to the female figure in my work", she has said, "and I hope to recreate the beauty and integrity of a simple, everyday intimacy".

With an emphasis on beautiful fabrics or domestic scenes , she is influenced by artists such as Andrew Wyeth🎨, Rembrandt🎨 and Vermeer🎨.

Kieta Nuij, 1960 | Abstract sculptor

Dutch artist🎨 Kieta Nuij was born in Heerlen in the south of the Netherlands. She is a graduate of the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts. She started working as an artist - she became a sculptor🎨 in 1984, just after graduating. Initially, she worked in clay, and now she has been creating bronze sculptures for over 25 years.

Characteristic for her art is the use of materials marked by the destructive effects of time - pieces of material, ropes, wood.

Sandro Botticelli | The Map of Hell, 1480-1490

The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli is a manuscript of the Divine Comedy by Dante, illustrated by 92 full-page pictures by Sandro Botticelli that are considered masterpieces and amongst the best works of the Renaissance painter.

The images are mostly not taken beyond silverpoint drawings, many worked over in ink, but four pages are fully coloured.

The manuscript eventually disappeared and most of it was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century, having been detected in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, with a few other pages being found in the Vatican Library.

Sandro Botticelli | The Map of Hell, 1480-1490 | Vatican Museums