Paul Molda | Impressionist painter
Sir Anthony Van Dyck | Baroque painter
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was the most important Flemish painter of the 17th century after Rubens, whose works influenced the young Van Dyck.
He also studied and was profoundly influenced by the work of Italian artists, above all, Titian.
Anthony van Dyck studied under Peter Paul Rubens and was one of his most accomplished students.
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau | Neo-Impressionist painter
French painter Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau (1864-1896) is often known for his mystical scenes of processions and carnivals around Pont Aven and by his association with the Gauguin and the Pont Aven School.
Still, after Gauguin moved on to the Pacific and many of the other artists of the group to Paris, Puigaudeau remained on the coast, moving an estate called Kervaudu at Le Croisic, near the mouth of the Loire.
Once there, he turned his attention to the beautiful landscape of the region: coastal cliffs with twisting fig trees, flowering fields dotted with small villages.
Gioacchino La Pira | The Blue Grotto on Capri island
The Blue Grotto / Grotta Azzurra, is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy.
Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue glow that illuminates the cavern.
The cave extends some 50 metres into the cliff at the surface, and is about 150 metres (490 ft) deep, with a sandy bottom.
Gioacchino La Pira | The Blue Grotto on Capri island
The Blue Grotto is one of several sea caves worldwide that is flooded with a brilliant blue or emerald light.
The quality and nature of the color in each is determined by its unique combination of depth, breadth, water clarity, and light source.
Lionel Walden | Seascape painter
A famous painter of seascapes and marine scenes, Lionel Walden (1861-1933) was born in Connecticut.
He first became interested in art in Minnesota, where the family moved when his father became rector of an Episcopal Church there.
As a young man Walden moved to Paris where he studied with E. A. Carolus-Duran.
Odilon Redon | Portrait of Marie Botkine, 1900
Odilon Redon | Portrait of the ceramist Marie Botkin, pastel | Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Portrait of Marie Botkine
Autor: Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Date: 1900
Style: Symbolism
Genre: Portrait
Media: Pastel, paper
Dimensions: 48 x 64 cm
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Adolph von Menzel | Realist painter
Adolf von Menzel, in full Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815-1905), German painter and printmaker, best known in his own day as a brilliant historical painter, whose patriotic works satisfied the public’s taste, engendered by Prussia’s continual expansion throughout the 19th century, for propagandistic art.
In the 20th century he was chiefly esteemed for his sensitive treatment of light and the original compositions of his small genre pictures.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: "La mia Italia" | Le lettere..
Italia, autunno 1881.
Alla signora Charpentier,
Dovevo pranzare un mattino con voi, e mi avrebbe fatto infinitamente piacere, perché è già passato tanto tempo.
Ma sono diventato improvvisamente viaggiatore e mi ha preso la febbre di vedere Raffaello .
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