Paul Verlaine | Poichè l'alba si accende.. / Puisque l'aube grandit..

Poiché l'alba si accende, ed ecco l'aurora,

poiché, dopo avermi a lungo fuggito, la speranza consente

a ritornare a me che la chiamo e l'imploro,

poiché questa felicità consente ad esser mia,

facciamola finita coi pensieri funesti,

basta con i cattivi sogni, ah! Soprattutto

basta con l'ironia e le labbra strette

e parole in cui uno spirito senz'anima trionfava.

Lionel Noel Royer (French painter, 1852-1926) | Jeune Femme en Bord de Mer, 1928

Salvatore Quasimodo | Anno Domini MCMXLVII

Avete finito di battere i tamburi

a cadenza di morte su tutti gli orizzonti

dietro le bare strette alle bandiere,

di rendere piaghe e lacrime a pietà

nelle città distrutte, rovina su rovina.

Mikhail Y. Kugach / Михаил Юрьевич Кугач (Russian painter, 1939) | The Return

Sir George Clausen RA (1852-1944)

Landscape and mural painter in oil and watercolour, etcher, mezzotinter and occasional lithographer.

Born April 1852 in London, son of a Danish interior decorator.

1867-73 apprenticed in the drawing office of Messrs Trollope - a London firm of decorators - attending evening classes at the National Art Training Schools, South Kensington, London.

Worked in the studio of Edwin Long, classical painter (1829-91), visited Holland and Belgium in 1878.

Bruno Cerboni, 1948

Bruno Cerboni is an Italian artist who uses third millennium techniques and Artificial Intelligence to create his works.

Cerboni was born in Castel del Piano (GR) Italy.

Graduated in Engineering at "La Sapienza" - University of Rome, he has a 30-year career as manager of large companies and entrepreneur.

He has always been committed to the themes of innovation and information technology, and has been awarded the Italian National Innovation Award and the Red Herring 100 Europe.

Csaba Markus, 1953

Csaba Markus is a Hungarian-American artist, painter, sculptor and publisher. As an artist, he primarily works in the field of printmaking, with a particular focus on etching and serigraphy.

His work also includes oil painting, drawing, glass art, photography and sculpture. Markus's painting titled "Pure Love" has been selected as one of the World's 10 most sensual paintings by Toronto Sun newspaper.

Life and work

Markus was born in Budapest, Hungary.

His mother is Szőllős Erzsébet and father Károly Márkus. His childhood in Hungary, where he frequented museums, is an influence on his work.

He is also influenced by avant-garde art and abstraction.

Markus began his career as a sculptor. At the age of fourteen, he and his work were featured on international public television. He became increasingly frustrated with teachers and the confines of communism, realizing his Renaissance-inspired emphasis on the individual conflicted with Hungarian communist beliefs.

Gustave Jacquet | Portrait / Genre painter

During the 19th century, particularly in France, people developed a vivid fascination with the past and paintings of the bygone eras were in demand.

Jacquet specialised in painting figures, portraits and genre subjects in which he evoked the elegance of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. These works were exquisitely painted with every attention paid to detail; his use of colour is rich and vibrant and his rendition of luxurious cloth is outstanding.

Alfred Eberling (1872-1951)

Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling, was a successful painter and photographer in the early 20th century.

A pupil of Ilya Repin, he never deviated from realism (in the broad sense of the word) and left a number of striking works executed in the painterly two-dimensional manner typical of that time.

Eberling’s portraits, entirely in the spirit of salon art in terms of imagery and not devoid of a chocolate-box prettiness, were always marked by refined, often unexpected combinations of colors.

Alfred Eberling | Portrait of Ballerina Tamara Karsavina, 1911

Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923)

Charles William Wyllie was a British painter of landscape and marinescape.

Born in London he was the son of William Morison Wyllie and brother of William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931).

While his brother William established a strong reputation as a marine painter and etcher, Charles moved away from straightforward representations of the British coastline and developed an interest in painting allegorical and mythological subjects beside the sea.