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Arturo Ricci (1854-1919)

Arturo Ricci è stato un pittore Italiano che trattò soprattutto il quadro di genere.
Ha vissuto in Firenze, dove studiò sotto Tito Conti.
Ricci si specializzò nelle scene eleganti tratte dalla vita borghese.
I suoi dipinti incontrarono un grande favore presso i nuovi ricchi dell’Ottocento che avevano nostalgia del passato, dei dipinti dell’età dell’oro e della civiltà raffinata e colta.


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Mathis Miles Williams, 1964 | Artista Romantico


Mathis Miles Williams è un artista nato ad Amarillo in Texas.
Attualmente vive nel Massachusetts occidentale.
Si è laureato in Phi Beta Kappa presso l'Università del Texas nel 1984 con una laurea in filosofia.
Successivamente, negli anni '80, ha cambiato carriera e ha vinto l'Alkazzi Fellowship per studiare belle arti alla Tate Gallery di Londra nel 1990.

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Federico Faruffini | Romantic / Realist painter


Federico Faruffini (1831-1869) was an Italian painter** and engraver of historical subjects, in a style that combines the styles and themes of Realism with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of Scapigliatura painters - Artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–1871). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of the French "bohème" (bohemian), literally meaning "unkempt" or "dishevelled"..

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Dimitar Voinov Jr, 1971

Dimitar Voinov Jr / Димитър Войнов – младши - was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1990 graduated The High School of Fine Arts “I. Petrov” Sofia.
In 1997 graduated fresco in the National Art Academy, Sofia.
He has above 22 individual exhibitions. He has a prize “Silver Vazrazdane” for painting. Lives and works in Sofia.
Since 1997 participation in a great number of collective exhibitions in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Turkey, Cyprus, Germany, France, England.


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Aldo Parmigiani, 1935 | Figurative painter


Italian painter** Aldo Parmigiani was born in Milan in 1935 and has his studio in via Amphitheatre 9. Lives in Tradate. He is very young pupil of the painter G.M. 
He moves and attended the School of Art of the Sforzesco Castle in Milan; later he enrolled at the Academy Cimabue, to take courses of nude and specializes in graphic art at the Art Institute of Urbino.
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L'arte romantica di Angela Staehling

Nota per aver catturato l'essenza della vita romantica, l'illustratrice Angela Staehling cerca ispirazione dai suoi valori familiari profondamente radicati, dalla sua eredità italiana ed il suo forte senso della tradizione.
Ha studiato in America ed in Inghilterra anni di esperienza nel campo della grafica, dell'illustrazione e della pittura.
Non può aiutare ma creare arte che catturi il romanticismo delle cose semplici della vita.


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Benedetto Luti | Pittore Barocco

Benedetto Luti (Firenze, 17 novembre 1666 - Roma, 17 giugno 1724) è stato un pittore Italiano.
Benedetto Luti si formò artisticamente nella città natale presso lo studio del Gabbiani spinto dal padre Jacopo.
Dopo il primo periodo di apprendistato fiorentino, Luti si trasferì a Roma nel 1691, grazie all'aiuto di Cosimo III de' Medici, che ne apprezzava le qualità di ritrattista a pastello.


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Oscar Casavalle, 1964

Alejandro Oscar Casavalle è un pittore figurativo realista Argentino.
Ha studiato design alla Panamerican School of Art.
Nel 1980 inizia i primi passi integrandosi in un gruppo chiamato Amigos del Arte, frequentando corsi con il maestro Manuel Quintá, l'artista plastico Tita Lemus ed il maestro Carlos A. Amico.
Ha partecipato a numerose mostre collettive.


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Nikolaos Gysis (Greek, 1842-1901)

Nikolaos Gysis Νικόλαος Γύζης

Nikolaos Gyzis (Greek: Νικόλαος Γύζης) was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work "Eros and the Painter", his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928.
He was the major representative of the so-called "Munich School", the major 19th-century Greek art movement.
His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere.
Gyzis was born in the village of Sklavochori, on the island of Tinos which has a long artistic history. As his family settled in Athens in 1850, he soon embarked on a study at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His studies there, formed the foundation of his artistic education and helped him to develop his natural skill in painting.

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Artemisia Gentileschi | Esther before Ahasuerus, 1620-1630

The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples.
This painting, among her most ambitious, represents the Jewish heroine Esther, who appeared before her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, in order to stave off a massacre of the Jewish people, breaking with court protocol and thereby risking death.

Artemisia Gentileschi | Esther before Ahasuerus, 1620-1630 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Trish Biddle

American artist Trish Biddle studied at the Dallas Institute of Art, before beginning her career as an illustrator and textile designer.
Trish Biddle is published internationally, and is collected around the world. Her process of drawing, painting and designing eventually melded onto canvases, creating romantic images and her unmistakable Art Déco figurative paintings. Her expertise in capturing nature and light creates richly colored, breath-taking canvases.
With a well-defined style, broad, romantic strokes and vibrant color, Trish paints figurative, floral, fashion icons and children’s art. She travels the world and enjoys translating her experiences into oil on canvas.


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Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)

Arthur Hughes (Londra, 27 gennaio 1832 - Londra, 23 dicembre 1915) è stato un pittore ed illustratore Inglese, appartenente alla Confraternita dei Preraffaelliti.
Le sue opere più note sono Amore d'aprile (April Love) e Il lungo fidanzamento (The Long Engagement), il cui soggetto comune è l'amore contrastato di una coppia.
Hughes risente particolarmente dell'influenza di John Everett Millais e del gusto floreale tipico del decadentismo, che determina una grande presenza di vegetazione nei suoi dipinti.
L'artista si è inoltre occupato della figura di Ofelia e di altri soggetti da William Shakespeare, ha illustrato il poema La vigilia di Sant'Agnese (The Eve of St. Agnes) di Keats ed alcune opere di George MacDonald, di cui era amico.
Arthur Hughes era lo zio del pittore, anch'egli preraffaellita ed esteta, Edward Robert Hughes.


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David Martiashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia 1978)

David Martiashvili crea dipinti di persone, edifici e paesaggi urbani.
Martiashvili è un artista Georgiano nato a Tbilisi, Georgia.
Si è laureato presso la "Scuola delle Arti" (Geo Arte) per bambini dotati.
Si è laureato presso l'Accademia d'Arte di Tbilisi.


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Gary Benfield (British painter, 1965) The Horses

"The world around me is a continuous sequence of fortuitous events. Objects and figures intertwine in my mind; they dance, they fuse and one adopts the colour and life of another. I find myself drawn into an intimate world where sensuality and delight in life’s form are combined in a flight of frolic and fantasy" - Gary Benfield.

Award-winning🎨 illustrator Gary Benfield was born in Birmingham, England. He studied art at Stourbridge College of Art (1982-1984) and at Wrexham College of Art (1984-1986).
In 1986, Benfield became a professional freelance illustrator.
Gary Benfield's artistic style is unique. A pencil in one hand and a paint brush in the other, he approaches the canvas and uses both at the same time, just letting 'what happens, happen'.


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Caravaggio | St John the Baptist at the Well, 1608

"All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature"
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio