Louis Valtat | Still life of flowers

Louis Valtat was a French painter and printmaker, associated with the Fauves, who exhibited at the first Salon des Indépendants of 1884.

He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.

Louis Valtat was born in Normandy in 1869, he is the son of the famous painter François Victor Valtat.

Two years later, Louis Valtat entered the School of Fine Arts and attended courses at the Julian Academy, where he met the Nabis group, including Edouard Vuillard.

Emilio Gola (1851-1923) | Genre painter

Emilio Gola was an Italian painter.

Born in Milan into a noble family, Emilio (Conte) Gola was encouraged to develop his interest in art in his adolescence by his father, a dilettante painter.

He graduated in industrial engineering from the Milan Polytechnic in 1873 and devoted himself to painting under the guidance of Sebastiano De Albertis. His training also involved frequent trips to Paris and the Netherlands.

Max Ernst | Dada / Surrealist painter

Max Ernst, in full Maximilian Maria Ernst (born April 2, 1891, Brühl, Germany - died April 1, 1976, Paris, France), German painter and sculptor who was one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism.

He became a naturalized citizen of both the United States, 1948 and France, 1958.

Ernst’s early interests were psychiatry and philosophy, but he abandoned his studies at the University of Bonn for painting.

Cesare-Auguste Detti (1847-1914)

Cesare Agostino Detti, o Cesare-Auguste Detti è stato un pittore Italiano, noto soprattutto per le sue scene di genere storico, in gran parte del XVII e XVIII secolo, ispirate allo stile del Trovatore.

Nato a Spoleto nel 1847, Cesare Augusto Detti si trasferisce a Roma nel 1862 e segue all’Accademia di San Luca le lezioni di Francesco Podesti e Francesco Coghetti (che Detti poteva avere conosciuto anche a Spoleto in occasione della realizzazione del sipario del teatro).

Finita l’Accademia nel 1865, Detti apre uno studio in via Margotta e, frequentando gli ambienti romani, incontra alcuni artisti che contribuiranno a determinare il suo stile maturo: Mariano Fortuny e la colonia degli artisti spagnoli con il loro virtuosismo pittorico e il brillante colorismo. Presente alle esposizioni nazionali del 1873 a Roma e del 1872 e 1877 a Napoli, Detti incontra nella città partenopea il famoso mercante d’arte Adolphe Goupil che lo invita a Parigi.

Edmond Rostand | A kiss, when all is said, what is it? / Un bacio, dopo tutto cos’è?

"Cyrano de Bergerac" is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life.

The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

Olga and Sergey Kamennoy

Sergey ed Olga sono la coppia di artisti che lavorano insieme sotto lo pseudonimo di "KAMU Sergey and Olga" per più di 15 anni.

- Sergey Kamennoy / Сергей Каменной è nato nel 1959 a Kharkov, Ucraina.

Ha studiato alla scuola d'arte, frequentando l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Kharkov dal 1978-1983.

E' membro dell'Unione degli Artisti di Ucraina dal 1988.

Durante gli studi si rese conto che era daltonico, anche se lui eccelso in disegno e incisione.

Ha costruito una carriera di successo nella stesura.

Dora Meeson (1869-1955)

Dora Meeson was an Australian artist and an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London, England.

She was a member of the British Artists' Suffrage League.

Although born in Melbourne, Dora Meeson moved with her family to London as a child, and commenced her art studies at the Slade School.

In 1895 she returned to the antipodes and spent two years at Melbourne's National Gallery School, where she met her future husband, George Coates, before returning again to Europe just as Coates won the Travelling Scholarship.

Raoul Dufy | Still Life

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy.

He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings.

He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.

He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces.