Damiano Taurino, 1949 | Figurative sculptor

Italian sculptor Damiano Taurino was born in Galugnano, in the municipality of San Donato di Lecce, the beautiful land of Salento, rich in historical traditions dating back thousands of years to the ancient Greek civilization and messapica (1000 BC).

This land, with its historical and cultural heritage, is able to inculcate in the young Damiano, the secret desire of the model, the ability to extract, from a piece of clay, images and figures lovely.

At age 16 he emigrated to Switzerland, he settled in Horgen-Zurich and spent a period devoted to education and training.

Lytras Nikephoros | Orientalist / Genre painter

Lytras Nikephoros / Λύτρας Νικηφόρος (1832-1904) was a Greek painter, born in Tinos.

He studied painting at the Athens School of Arts (1850-1856) taught by the brothers Philippos and Georgios Margaritis, the monk Agathangelos Triantafyllou, Raffaello Ceccoli and Ludwig Thiersch, whom he also assisted in the iconography of the Russian Church in Athens (1853-1855).

In 1860 after teaching Elementary Graphics at the School of Arts for two years (1856-1858), he left for Munich where first on a scholarship from the Greek government and then with the support of Baron Simon Sinas, he completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, his principal teacher being Karl von Piloty.

Xavier Bueno | Modern painter of Reality

Xavier Bueno (1915-1979) was an Italian painter of Spanish origin.

Xavier Bueno was born in Vera de Bidasoa, son of the writer and journalist Javier Bueno, who was a correspondent in Berlin of the Madrid newspaper ABC.

In 1925 the family settled in Geneva; five years later, Xavier enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts showing a precocious talent.

After a return with his mother to Spain, in Madrid, he attended the Academy of San Fernando and followed a painting course held by Vazquez Diaz.

Matthijs Maris | Romantic / Symbolist painter

Matthias Maris (17 August 1839 - 22 August 1917) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer. He was also known as Matthijs Maris or Thijs.

He initially belonged to the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob and Willem, but his later works deviated more and more from that school into a unique style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.

He was born in The Hague.

At the age of twelve, he registered at the Hague Academy of Art, but did not pass the entrance exam.

Therefore, he took lessons from Isaac Cornelis Elink Sterk, secretary of the academy.

Victor Tardieu | Co-founder of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Indochine

Victor François Tardieu (30 April 1870, Orliénas - 12 June 1937, Hanoi) was a French painter; cofounder of what is now known as the Vietnam University of Fine Arts.

In 1887, he was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon.

After two years there, he transferred to the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied for a year.

Vietnamese Art History and Sitemap

Vietnamese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in Vietnam or by Vietnamese artists.

Vietnamese art has a long and rich history, the earliest examples of which date back as far as the Stone Age around 8,000 BCE.

With the millennium of Chinese domination starting in the 2nd century BC, Vietnamese art undoubtedly absorbed many Chinese influences, which would continue even following independence from China in the 10th century AD.

Le Thi Luu | Impressionist painter

Gustave Courtois | Academic painter

Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (1852-1923) was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art.

Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône, France to an unwed mother who was devoted to him.

Henri Matisse | The Series of the Romanian Blouses

Henri Matisse | Romanian Blouse with Green Sleeves, 1937 | Cincinnati Art Museum

Henri Matisse's 'Romanian Blouse' is an exploration of composition, line, and form.

The movement of broad exuberant brushwork across the flat two-dimensional plane of the canvas emphasizes the energy of the composition and evokes the sitter's personality.

The Cincinnati Art Museum's painting is one of several paintings and drawings on a single theme - female models clothed in a boldly patterned Moroccan robes or embroidered Romanian blouses - that Matisse made in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Henri Matisse | Romanian Blouse with Green Sleeves, 1937 | Cincinnati Art Museum