Andrea del Verrocchio | Sculpture works

Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was 15th-century Florentine sculptor and painter and the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci. His equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, erected in Venice in 1496, is particularly important.

The sculptural works either recorded to be by Verrocchio or actually extant are few in number.

According to his brother Tommaso, Verrocchio was responsible for an inlaid slab (1467) in the Florentine church of San Lorenzo recording the burial place of Cosimo de’ Medici, who died in 1464.

Francesco Galante (1884-1972) | Figurative painter

Francesco Galante (1884-1972) è nato a Margherita di Savoia, in provincia di Foggia, il 4 nov. 1884 da Michele e Carmela Raffaella Lopez, si trasferì ben presto a Napoli dove, dal 1896, frequentò l'Istituto di Belle Arti. Fu allievo di M. Cammarano e V. Volpe e concluse gli studi nel 1904 ricevendo il primo premio🎨 sia per la figura dipinta sia per il paesaggio. Studente, collaborò a vari giornali napoletani come illustratore: nel 1904 fu, con Alberto Martini, tra i primi collaboratori della rivista milanese Varietas e nel 1911 illustrò articoli di F. Russo per un'altra nota rivista di Milano, La Lettura.

Édouard Sain | Excavations at Pompeii, 1865

Édouard Alexandre Sain (13 May 1830 - 26 June 1910) was a French painter whose works included historical and genre subjects as well as portraits.

Sain was strongly interested in antiquity.

He first settled at Écouen, where he painted various rustic scenes in the plein air style, but experimented with other styles.

His paintings from this period include Vénus et l'Amour, a group of chimney sweeps and a historical painting of the period of Louis XV.

Andrea del Verròcchio | The Teacher of Leonardo da Vinci

Andrea del Verrocchio (born 1435, Florence - died 1488, Venice), 15th-century Florentine sculptor and painter and the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci.

His equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, erected in Venice in 1496, is particularly important.

The only surviving painting that according to documentary proof should be by Verrocchio, an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saints in the Donato de’ Medici Chapel of the cathedral at Pistoia, was not completed by the master himself.

Paul Fischer | Cityscapes painter | Page 2

The son of the artist Phillip Fischer, Paul Gustave Fischer was born in Copenhagen. One of a rich vein of Danish painters🎨 working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Fischer was a contemporary of amongst others, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935), Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) and Peter Wilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933).

Emerico Tóth, 1970 | Abstract painter

Imre Tóth is an Hungarian painter. "My name Imre Tóth, artist name Emerico. My art is abstract, realistic, modern, sometime surreal, created in my own style and vision that most closely leans towards the expressionist and impressionist generic descriptions of styles.

There is no commitment towards theme and style. There is no defined path, only the love of painting. It is an ever-learning and experimenting spirit".

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.