Gustav Pope (1831-1910) | Victorian era painter

Gustav Pope was a British painter🎨 of Austrian origin. Active in the Victorian era, he incorporated several styles on his work, but in his mature style he showed influences of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Jeanne Saint Chéron, 1973 | Ballet dancers

French painter🎨 Jeanne Saint Chéron is self-taught. His inspirations are mainly drawn from the horse world, fascinated by both the explosive power and the refined elegance of the animal.

Rich in symbols, touching fantasy and allegory his work can be summarized in the equestrian art where animal. This is the art of transporting us beyond appearances.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Via Crucis

Roberto Ferri is an Italian artist🎨 and painter from Taranto, Italy, who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters🎨 -Caravaggio in particular- and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy and Symbolism.

In 1996, he graduated from the Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto, a local art school in his hometown.

Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Ballet dancers

Pierre Grisot was born in Paris. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited frequently in Paris, in particular at the Salon des Independants and with the group of The Paris School, showing together with the contemporary artists Vlaminck🎨, Raoul Dufy🎨 and Villon.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Paris painting

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian painter🎨 whom moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century.

He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920's, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the "Boulevard de l'Opéra" and "Les Champs Elysées" for example.

Swiss Art History and Sitemap

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist/Existentialist/Figure sculptor

Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority.

Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity.

Edgar Degas | Art Quotes

• "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see".
• "L'arte non è ciò che vedi, ma ciò che fai vedere agli altri".
• "Bisogna rifare dieci volte, cento volte lo stesso soggetto. Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso".
• "Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".

Paul Jones (1921-1997) | Flowers of May

Paul Jones is an Australian painter who has painted these beautiful botanical illustrations in a manner very reminiscent of Thornton’s Temple of Flora.

His watercolor paintings are widely held in museum collections and included in several interesting exhibits linked below, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Smithsonian in Washington DC and he is considered one of the finest botanical artists of the last 150 years.