Nicola Simbari (1927-2012)

Italian painter Nicola Simbari was born in San Lucido, Calabria and this beautiful area greatly impacted his Mediterranean paintings: the blues of the ocean and sky and the bright hues of the flowers.

His family moved to Rome when he was young and his father worked there as a Vatican architect.

Rome's art masterpieces so impressed Simbari that, by age 13, he decided to study art and enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti. He opened his first studio in Rome at 22 years of age. Simbari's early works featured scenes from his childhood - gypsies, cafes, fishing villages and the Italian countryside.

Bernardino Licinio | High Renaissance painter

Bernardino Licinio (1489-1565) was a painter during the Italian High Renaissance, creating portraits and religious works.

He was born in Bergamo in the town of Lombardy.

It is said that he may have trained in the studio of Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), a prominent Venetian painter of the Bellini family.

Licinio stayed close to the artistic developments of the Venetian school of painting.

Brazilian Art History and Sitemap

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior | Realist Genre painter

The creation of art in the geographic area now known as Brazil begins with the earliest records of its human habitation.

The original inhabitants of the land, pre-Columbian Indian peoples, produced various forms of art; specific cultures like the Marajoara left sophisticated painted pottery.

19th-20th century Artists | Sitemap

Camille Claudel | L’Abandon, 1988-1905

List of 19th-20th century Artists and artistic movements definition

19th-20th century Art

• 19th-20th century Artists | Sitemap
• Abbott Fuller Graves | Impressionist painter - Nuovo!!
• Adolphe Valette | Urban landscapes of Manchester
• Alexandre-Louis Jacob | Landscape painter
• Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Belgian Art History and Sitemap

René Magritte | Surrealist painter

Despite its size, Belgium has a long and distinguished artistic tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, considerably pre-dating the foundation of the current state in 1830.

Art from the areas making up modern Belgium is called in English Netherlandish up to the separation with the Netherlands from 1570 on, and Flemish until the 18th century.

Important monasteries in Belgium were centres of production in Carolingian art and Ottonian art, and later the area producing Romanesque Mosan art is now largely in Belgium.

Veduta | Il Vedutismo

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1632-1675) | View of Delft, 1660-1661 | Mauritshuis, The-Hague

A veduta (Italian for "view"; plural vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of vedute are referred to as vedutisti.

This genre of landscape originated in Flanders, where artists such as Paul Bril painted vedute as early as the 16th century.

In the 17th century, Dutch painters made a specialty of detailed and accurate recognizable city and landscapes that appealed to the sense of local pride of the wealthy Dutch middle class.

An archetypal example is Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft.

Herbert Schmalz | Pre-Raphaelite | Orientalist painter

Herbert Gustave Schmalz who named himself Herbert Gustave Carmichael in 1918, was an English painter. He is counted among the Pre-Raphaelites.

Schmalz was born in England as the son of a German father and an English mother. He received conventional education in painting, first at the South Kensington Art School and later at the Royal Academy of Arts, where he studied with Frank Dicksee, Stanhope Forbes and Arthur Hacker. He perfected his studies in Antwerp at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

After his return to London he made a name for himself as a history painter, with a style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and orientalism. In 1884 he successfully exhibited his painting Too Late at the Royal Academy.

Herbert Schmalz - Return from Calvary, 1891

Giovanni Paolo Bedini (1844-1924) | Genre painter

Giovanni Bedini, also known as Paolo Bedini was an Italian painter who was born in Bologna, Italy.

The artist was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, initially started up in painting with a historical theme, and soon abandoned it to devote himself to the representation of everyday life more carefree.

That of Bedini was a cheerful and lively art, much appreciated by critics and far from any romantic rhetoric, which matured its peculiarities in the vein of neo-rococo and middle-bourgeois style.

A tireless worker, Bedini created many works including oil paintings and watercolors that found a wide market both in Italy and abroad.

Giovanni Bedini (Bologna, 26 dicembre 1844 - 14 marzo 1924) è stato un pittore Italiano.

Giovanni Bedini, detto anche Paolo Bedini, formatosi all'Accademia di belle arti di Bologna si aggiudicò giovanissimo molti premi tra cui quello in Architettura (1863), in Decorazione e Figura (1864), in Prospettiva (1865), in Pittura (1866) e nella Figura delle statue ed Anatomia (1867).

La sua prima mostra avvenne nel 1867 quando portò un'opera ispirata alla storia rinascimentale nell'Esposizione Triennale di Reggio Emilia.

In seguito espose a Torino (1872), Genova (1876), Firenze (1877) e a Milano (1876, 1893, 1895, 1906).

Nel 1894 fu chiamato ad insegnare elementi di figura presso l'Accademia bolognese e, tra il 1907-1922, fu docente e Capo di Istituto presso la Scuola Professionale per le Arti Decorative di Bologna (in seguito denominata Istituto d'Arte e oggi accorpata in un unico istituto col nome di: Liceo Artistico "Francesco Arcangeli").