Almeida Júnior (1850-1899) | Genre painter

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior was a major Brazilian painter🎨 whose works became a source of inspiration for subsequent modernists. As a painter, he defied the popular traditions of his contemporaries and carved a new niche for himself.

At a time when his fellow painters were achieving fame by painting mythological and historical subjects, he decided to focus on reality and portray the beauty of rural life. The subjects he chose to paint were an unchartered territory, but his skill ensured that the gamble paid off.

Jorge Marin, 1963 | Figurative sculptor

Jorge Marín is a Mexican sculptor and painter. He has been an active figure in the contemporary art world for the last 25 years. He began to sculpt ceramic in the early 1980s.

Bronze has been his preferred material for the last ten years.

His work often depicts horses, centaurs, garudas, children, madonna's, acrobats, along with elements such as spheres, masks, arrows, boats and scales.

These concepts are consistent with recurring themes such as reflection and balance.

Yuko Nagayama 永山裕子, 1963 | Watercolor painter

Japanese artist🎨 Nagayama Yuka 永山裕子 is a leading watercolorist and teacher known for her easy-to-understand instructional style.

Her paintings are exhibited and sold in galleries across Japan, the United States, and France, and she is featured regularly in Watercolor Magazine.

Nagayama Yuka was born in Tokyo.

David Cheifetz, 1981 | Still Life

David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz🎨 is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist who continues to push the limits of contemporary realist oil painting.

Cheifetz was born in the Pacific Northwest.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Cheifetz see:

• David Cheifetz, 1981 | Figurative / Still Life painter🎨

Christian Dior / René Gruau | Fashion Quotes

René Gruau (Italian Fashion illustrator, 1909-2004)

• "After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".
• "Dopo le donne i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha donato al mondo".
• "Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style".
• "Il profumo è un segno di identità femminile e il tocco finale del suo stile".

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, best known for his "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

He was also the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print.

Vasari enjoyed high repute during his lifetime and amassed a considerable fortune.

Russian Art History and Sitemap

Early Russian painting is represented in icons and vibrant frescos.

In the early 15th century, the master icon painter Andrei Rublev created some of Russia's most treasured religious art.

The Russian Academy of Arts, which was established in 1757, to train Russian artists, brought Western techniques of secular painting to Russia.

In the 18th century, academicians Ivan Argunov, Dmitry Levitzky, Vladimir Borovikovsky became influential.

Lesser Ury (1861-1931) | Impressionist painter

Lesser Ury was an German Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin.

In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.