Rosalba Carriera | Rococo painter

Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), a Venetian Rococo painter, was best known for her innovative approach to pastels, which had previously been used for informal drawings and preparatory sketches.

She was also credited with pastel as a medium for serious portraiture that redefined the Rococo manner.

In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures.

Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in eighteenth-century Europe.

Marco d'Oggiono | Leonardo's pupil

Marco d'Oggiono (1470-1549) was an Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied.

He was born at Oggiono near Milan.

Of the details of his life, we know almost nothing - not even the date of his important series of frescoes painted for the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Milan. He probably died in Milan.

Luigi Lanzi gave 1530 as the date of his death, but various writers in Milan say it took place in 1540, and now the best accepted date is 1549.

Edwin Harris | Genre painter

Edwin Harris (1855-1906) was an British painter from Ladywood, Birmingham.

Harris entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of fourteen, where he worked under Charles Morgan, F G Jackson and Edward R Taylor.

Fellow students included Walter Langley, William John Wainwright and William Breakspeare.

Harris was appointed as assistant master and after two years set up his own studio, painting pictures and giving lessons.

Ashraf Abdel Mohsen, 1964 | Abstract painter / Visionary architect

Dr. Ashraf Abdel Mohsen is an Egyptian artist and futuristic architect who founded founded CUBE Consultants, an architecture studio based in Egypt, in 1990.

Besides running his company, he is also a professor of Architecture at Ain Shams University.

Among the most important achievements would be development of the National Theater development, Khufu Avenue and plaza, the Fustat Open Museum, the New Administrative Capital and finally TUTERA City.

Emily Dickinson: Ho un Uccello in primavera, che per me sola canta..

Durante gli anni 1850, la relazione più forte e più affettuosa della poetessa Statunitense Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) era con sua cognata, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, nota come Susan Gilbert o Sue Gilbert (poetessa Statunitense, 1830-1913).

Durante la sua vita le ha inviato oltre trecento lettere, più che a qualsiasi altro corrispondente, nel corso della loro relazione.

Susan era favorevole alle poesia della Dickinson, interpretando il ruolo di "amico, influenza, musa e consigliere più amato" i cui suggerimenti editoriali spesso venivano seguiti.

Emily Dickinson by Jane DeDecker

Francesco Petrarca | Solo et pensoso / Alone and thoughtful

Solo et pensoso i piú deserti campi

vo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti,

et gli occhi porto per fuggire intenti

ove vestigio human l’arena stampi.

Giovanni Fattori | Uomo nel bosco, 1880-1885

Pablo Neruda / Yuri Krotov | Ode to summer / Ode all'estate

Estate, violino rosso,

nuvola chiara,

un ronzio

di catena montuosa

o di cicala

ti precede,

il cielo

a volta,

liscio, luccicante come

un occhio,

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina | Renaissance painter

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (1489-1536) considered "Spain's most exquisite Renaissance painter" by Elías Tormo was first mentioned in 1575 in Relaciones de los pueblos de España as "licenciado Yáñez" from the village of Almedina.

He also appears in a roster of painters compiled by Hernando de Ávila in his "Art of painting" and included by Diego de Villalta in 1590.