The Ladies of the Baroque | Part 2

Ginevra Cantofoli

Italian painter, 1618-1672

Ginevra Cantofoli trained under Giovanni Andrea Sirani, the father of Elisabetta Sirani, in Bologna.

Although a generation older than Elisabetta Sirani, Cantofoli was described by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Cesare Masini and Marcello Oretti as Elisabetta's student.

Ginevra Cantofoli | Woman in a Turban, 1650 | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, Roma.

Orsola Caccia (1596-1676) | Mannerist painter

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, born Theodora Caccia (1596-1676) was an Italian Mannerist painter and Catholic nun.

She painted religious images, altarpieces, and still lifes.

The daughter of painter Guglielmo Caccia and Laura Olivia, she was baptized Theodora Orsola on December 4, 1596.

In 1620, she entered the Ursulines convent at Bianzè, where she changed her name to Orsola Maddalena after she took her vows.

Park Im Gyu 박임규 | Watercolor painter

Park Im Gyu (Korean: 박임규) is an South Korean Artist who is renowned for his delicate brushstrokes and precise character descriptions through pencil and watercolor.

Park Im Gyu was born in Hamyang County, a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Currently lives and works in Ulsan Metropolitan City.

Jack Butler Yeats RHA | Expressionist painter

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 - 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother.

Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906.

His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland - especially of his boyhood home of Sligo.

Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism.

He later would adopt the style of Expressionism.

Ewa Czarniecka, 1975 | Impressionist painter

Ewa Czarniecka is a Polish born Artist from the small South-Eastern village of Krasiczyn.

Naturally one of her early influences was the work of Bronislow Linke which she first discovered aged 13, when she would try and mimic his artwork to recreate the overwhelming feeling she felt to see it for the first time.

For years Ewa used pen and paper to express her thoughts, spending hours everyday writing in a journal.

Margaret Keane | Big eyes

Andy Warhol said:

"I think what Keane has done is terrific! If it were bad, so many people wouldn’t like it".

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Margaret Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 - June 26, 2022) always loved to paint and draw since an early age.

She first made her paintings famous in San Francisco’s North Beach in the 1950s.

Margaret’s work drew little accolades from art critics but was loved and admired by the world.

Margaret went on to become one of the most successful living artists in the early 60s to present day.

Jean-Paul Sartre: "Ogni parola ha conseguenze. Il silenzio anche!"

• "Il desiderio si esprime attraverso la carezza, come il pensiero attraverso il linguaggio".

• "Desire is expressed by caress, thought by language".

• "All'inizio, l'uomo esiste, si alza e compare sulla scena, solo in seguito definisce se stesso".

• "Quando i ricchi si fanno la guerra, sono i poveri a morire".

• "When the rich make war, it's the poor that die".

Auguste Rodin | The Thinker (detail) | Musee Rodin

Pablo Picasso | Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, 1901

Artists from all countries came to Paris to find a connection to the modern era.

On his first trip to Paris, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) painted a street in Montmartre, the neighborhood that was popular among artists, in the Impressionist style.

The picture is part of a group of about thirty works that the then nineteen-year-old artist presented at his solo exhibition in the Galerie Ambroise Vollard in 1901 in Paris. | Source: © Museum Barberini, Potsdam

Pablo Picasso | Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, 1901 | Museum Barberini, Potsdam