Micko-Vic | Cityscapes

Maltese painter Micko-Vic is a self taught artist with a flair for creativity running through his genes. He first sketches out the scene with pencil and brush, and then adds a combination of acrylic and impasto gel with a palette knife layer upon layer within each scene to get the final, textured effect.

During the last 12 years living in Malta, he studied the culinary arts.

Whilst working as a chef, painting was a hobby limited to free time but, by studying and delving deeper into artistic methods he gradually created a style of expressive and innovative art.

Max Nonnenbruch (1857-1922)

Max Nonnenbruch è stato un pittore Tedesco della Scuola di Monaco, un gruppo noto soprattutto per le scene di neoclassicismo ed il simbolismo.

Figlio di un proprietario terriero del Basso Reno sin da adolescente sviluppa il desiderio di diventare un pittore.

Nonnenbruch ha ricevuto la sua formazione artistica formale presso l'Accademia di Dnsseldorf e Monaco, allievo di Guglielmo di Lindenschmit.

A Parigi, ha studiato all'Ecole de Beaux-Arts e ha completato i suoi studi presso l'Accademia Julian in Italia.

Fantasy Photography

"Io porto la mia macchina fotografica ovunque vada. Avere un nuovo rullino da sviluppare mi dà una buona ragione per svegliarmi la mattina" - Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol (1930-1987)

Fascinated by consumer culture, the media, and fame, Andy Warhol himself became one of the most famous and important artists of the twentieth century.

The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Andrew Warhola grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, studying art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949.

Soon after graduating he moved to New York City, where he abbreviated his name to Andy Warhol and began working as a commercial designer and window display artist, winning several awards for his distinctive advertising designs.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Painting

I have been here before,

but when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

the sweet keen smell,

the sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

Joan Miró | The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings, 1953

Joan Miró i Ferrà🎨 was an Spanish painter🎨, sculptor, printmaker and decorative artist. He was never closely aligned with any movement and was too retiring in his manner to be the object of a personality cult, like his compatriot Picasso🎨, but the formal and technical innovations that he sustained over a very long career guaranteed his influence on 20th-century art.

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Carl Larsson | Arts and Crafts movemen

Carl Larsson (1853-1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes.

He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life.

Larsson was born in Gamla stan, the old quarter of Stockholm, on 28 May 1853. His family was poor and Carl grew up in dismal circumstances.

The only glimmer of hope was his strong artistic talent, which emerged early on in his life. When he was thirteen years old his teacher at the school for the poor persuaded him to apply for a place at Principskolan, the preparatory department of the Art Academy.

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse | Il pittore delle ballerine dell'Opera

Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (Parigi, 1851-1932) è stato un pittore Francese.

Noto soprattutto come pittore delle ballerine dell'Opera, gli si devono anche numerosi paesaggi e tre "panorami".

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse era figlio del pittore Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse e di Louise Anne Adnot. Suo fratello Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, fu anch'egli pittore e scultore.

Studiò alla Scuola di Belle arti di Parigi, dopo essere stato allievo di suo padre e poi di Alexandre Cabanel.

Nel 1875 espose per la prima volta al Salon, dove, nel 1897, ricevette una menzione d'onore.

All'Expo di Parigi del 1889 ottenne invece una medaglia d'argento. Al pari di suo padre, il suo soggetto preferito fu la donna.

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629-1684)

Pieter de Hooch (20 December 1629 (baptized) - 24 March 1684 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, with whom his work shares themes and style.

Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 - November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.

He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.

In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University).

After 1900, he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. Scholar Henry C. Pitz later used the term Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied with Pyle.

Ernest Ange Duez | Pittore di genere

Il pittore Francese Ernest Ange Duez (1843-1896) è nato l'8 marzo 1843 a Parigi, e ha studiato pittura sotto Isidoro Pils.

Espone per la prima volta al Salon nel 1868 con Mater Dolorosa, e raggiunge il successo nel 1874 con una medaglia di terza classe per i suoi dipinti Splendeur e Misère. Ha vinto altre medaglie lì in seguito.

Le scene di genere raffiguranti la vita moderna comprendevano il ristorante Au Le Doyen (1878) e Café sur la Terrasse (1890). I ritratti includevano Madame Duez (1877) ed Alphonse de Neuville (1880).

Paesaggi e scene balneari erano spesso ispirati alla campagna della Normandia attorno a Villerville e Le Havre.

Nel 1879 al Salon espose il grande trittico Saint Cuthbert, raffigurante le fasi della vita di Cuthbert ambientate in paesaggi basati sulla campagna intorno a Villerville. Considerato il suo più grande lavoro, è ora al Musée d'Orsay.

Walter Ernest Webster | Pittore figurativo

Walter Ernest Webster RI ROI RP (1878-1959) è stato un pittore e ritrattista Britannico. Ha lavorato anche come illustratore.

Fu membro sia del Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors (RI) che del Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) nel 1920 e della Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) nel 1921.

Marc Chagall | Le Cirque

Marc Chagall’s fascination with the circus began at a young age, when travelling acrobats, dancers and musicians visited his hometown of Vitebsk in pre-revolutionary Russia.

In his later years in Paris, the artist regularly attended the Cirque d'Hiver with the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard.

Vollard encouraged the pastime in the hope that Chagall would be inspired to create an illustrated book on the subject.

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm | Pittore Romantico

Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1840-1905) è stato un paesaggista Finlandese.

Biografia

Munsterhjelm è nato a Toivoniemi Manor di Tuulos, in Finlandia.

Era il figlio di Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) e sua moglie e Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895).

Suo padre lo mandò per la prima volta alla scuola marittima di Turku.

Léon Cogniet | Strage degli innocenti, 1824

La "Strage degli innocenti", attualmente presso il Museo delle Belle Arti di Rennes, è il primo successo del pittore Francese Léon Cogniet (Parigi, 1794-1880), presentato al Salon di Parigi del 1824.

La "Strage degli innocenti" è un episodio presente nel Vangelo secondo Matteo (2,1-16), in cui Erode il Grande, re della Giudea, ordinò un massacro di bambini allo scopo di uccidere Gesù, della cui nascita a Betlemme era stato informato dai Magi.

Léon Cogniet | Strage degli innocenti, 1824 | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes

Ambrosius Benson | Pittore manierista

Ambrogio Benzone (1495-1550), od Ambrosius Benson in fiammingo, è stato un pittore Italiano, di origine lombarda, attivo a Bruges.

Si ignorano la data precisa e il luogo della nascita, che si ipotizza sia avvenuta nei dintorni di Milano, per via del nome Ambrogio. Dovette trasferirsi piuttosto giovane a Bruges nelle Fiandre, proveniente dalla Lombardia.

Vincent van Gogh | Garden of the Asylum, 1889

This painting shows the garden of the clinic in Saint-Rémy where Van Gogh spent a year. He worked there regularly when his illness meant he was not allowed to venture outside.

Van Gogh wrote to his friend Bernard about this painting:

You’ll understand that this combination of red ochre, of green saddened with grey, of black lines that define the outlines, this gives rise a little to the feeling of anxiety from which some of my companions in misfortune often suffer, and which is called "seeing red".

Paul Gauguin: "Art is either plagiarism or revolution"

• "Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams".

• "Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction".

• "Art is either plagiarism or revolution".

• "Art = a mad search for individualism".

• "There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover".

Paul Gauguin: "I shut my eyes in order to see.."

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Anton Einsle | Portrait painter

Anton Einsle (1801-1871), an Austrian ⎆ portrait painter, was born at Vienna in 1801.
He studied at the Academy of that city, and was largely patronized by the court and nobility. He died in 1871.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) | Vita ed Opere

Rodin ‹rodẽ´›, Auguste - Scultore (Parigi 1840 - Meudon 1917). Artista di grande talento e di robuste capacità espressive, tentò di fondere l'impostazione monumentale michelangiolesca con l'intenso, vibrante realismo memore della tradizione gotica francese e delle soluzioni di Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

Ai numerosi busti e ritratti di acuta penetrazione psicologica, così come alle opere d'impegno monumentale, Rodin seppe imprimere l'idea del movimento, forzando i contrasti tra pieni e vuoti, con effetti di dinamismo e vitalità che fecero della sua opera un imprescindibile punto di riferimento per la generazione successiva.

Vita ed Opere

A Parigi frequentò i corsi di disegno della Petite École (1854-57) per poi proseguire gli studi presso l'École de la manifacture des Gobelins (1857-59) e con A.-L. Barye presso il Musée d'histoire naturelle dove, in quegli anni, lavorò saltuariamente.

Ripetutamente respinto agli esami di ammissione all'École supérieure des beaux-arts, dopo una prima esperienza come ornatista, nel 1864 presentò, senza successo, al Salon parigino l'Uomo dal naso rotto (1864, Parigi, Musée Rodin); nello stesso anno, entrò come sbozzatore nello studio di Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse con il quale avrebbe a lungo collaborato, prima a Parigi (1864-71) e poi a Bruxelles (1871-77).

Martín La Spina, 1973 | Pittore surrealista

Il pittore Martin La Spina è nato nella città di La Plata, in Argentina.

Si è laureato come Professore e Bachelor of Fine Arts (orientamento pittura) presso il Fine Art College (Università Nazionale di La Plata) con lode per le sue qualifiche elevate (diploma JV Gonzlez).

Ha partecipato a numerose mostre, singole o collettive. È stato anche invitato in modo speciale, in Pittura, Disegno e Arte nei Saloni di Vetro dall'anno 1989 ad oggi.

Ha ricevuto molti premi per il suo lavoro artistico.

Dal 1990 realizza le proprie mostre personali.

Rubens | Nicolaas Rubens Wearing a Coral Neckless, 1619

Title: Nicolaas Rubens Wearing a Coral Neckless.

Date: 1619.

Author: Peter Paul Rubens (8 June 1577 - 30 May 1640).

Medium: Black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk.

Current location: Albertina, Vienna.

Vintage art

Vintage è un attributo che definisce le qualità ed il valore di un oggetto indossato o prodotto almeno vent'anni prima del momento attuale, e che può altresì essere riferito a secoli passati senza necessariamente essere circoscritto al Ventesimo secolo.
Gli oggetti definiti vintage sono considerati oggetti di culto per differenti ragioni tra le quali le qualità superiori con cui sono stati prodotti, se confrontati ad altre produzioni precedenti o successive dello stesso manufatto, o per ragioni legate a motivi di cultura o costume.

Jean-Léon Gérome | Moses on Mount Sinai, 1900

Painted circa 1895-1900, Gérome’s interpretation of Moses on Mount Sinai is an impressive demonstration of his mastery of color and complex compositional elements.

The overall effect is a powerful evocation of one of the greatest moments in Jewish history.

The setting for Gérome’s painting derives from descriptions of the Revelation in the Books of Exodus and Deuteronomy:

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Archers Shooting at a Herm, 1530-33

The handful of 'presentation drawings' that Michelangelo ⎆ produced during the latter half of his life, and especially around 1530, stand at the very pinnacle of European draughtsmanship. Made as gifts for his closest friends, they were painstakingly worked and often imbued with personal meaning, the nature and full extent of which are not always clear to us.

Despite their intimate nature, most were soon famous through reproduction in engravings, copy drawings, paintings, relief sculpture and carved crystals.

Georgia O'Keeffe | La madre del modernismo americano

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986) viene considerata la Madre del Modernismo Americano. La sua attività artistica è associabile al Precisionismo.

Georgia O'Keeffe nacque nel 1887 in una fattoria vicino a Sun Prairie, nel Wisconsin, seconda dei sette figli di Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe Sr. (1864-1916) ed Ida Totto (1864-1916), entrambi allevatori di bestiame. Il padre era di origine irlandese, mentre la madre era di origine ungherese, in quanto il nonno George Victor Totto (1820-1894), di cui Ida diede il nome alla figlia, era di origine nobiliare avendo il titolo di conte ed era emigrato in America nel 1848, sposando la diciottenne Isabel Dunham Wyckoff (1830-1894).

Nel 1905 frequentò la School of the Art Institute di Chicago e nel 1907 l'Art Students League a New York. Fu anche allieva di Arthur Wesley Dow al Teachers College dell'Università Colombia.

Eugene Delacroix | Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, 1838

The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.

Originally a double portrait, it was later cut in two and sold off as separate pieces.

It showed composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) playing piano while writer George Sand (1804-76) sits to his right, listening and smoking a cigar (a favorite activity of hers).

The sitters were lovers at the time, and both were close friends of the artist.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Eugène Delacroix was a French romantic painter regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the french Romantic school.

Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.

Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)

Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) è stato un pittore Italiano.

In antitesi con gli esiti ormai sterili del tardomanierismo, propose il recupero della grande tradizione della pittura italiana del Cinquecento, riuscendo in un'originale sintesi delle molteplici scuole del Rinascimento maturo: Raffaello, Michelangelo, Correggio, Tiziano e il Veronese sono tutti autori che ebbero notevole influsso sull'opera del Carracci.

La riproposizione e, al tempo stesso, la modernizzazione di questa grande tradizione, unitamente al ritorno dell'imitazione del vero, sono i fondamenti della sua arte.

Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (8 dicembre 1861-27 settembre 1944) è stato uno scultore e pittore Francese.

Maillol è nato a Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. Decise in tenera età di diventare un pittore e si trasferì a Parigi nel 1881 per studiare arte.

Dopo diverse candidature e diversi anni di povertà, la sua iscrizione al École des Beaux-Arts è stato accettato nel 1885, e ha studiato lì sotto Jean-Léon Gérôme e Alexandre Cabanel.

I suoi primi dipinti mostrano l'influenza dei suoi contemporanei Pierre Puvis de Chavannes e Paul Gauguin.

Van Gogh | The Sunflower series, 1888

Inspired by Paul Gauguin’s impending arrival, Vincent van Gogh was determined to cover the walls of The Yellow House with paintings of sunflowers.

August 21, 1888 Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo:

"Now that I hope to live with Gauguin in a studio of our own, I want to make decorations for the studio. Nothing but big flowers. Next door to your shop, in the restaurant, you know there is a lovely decoration of flowers; I always remember the big sunflowers in the window there.

If I carry out this idea there will be a dozen panels. So the whole thing will be a symphony in blue and yellow".

Ricardo Sanz, 1957

Spanish painter Ricardo Sanz is a figurative contemporary artist. His artistic vocation was forged thanks to his grandfather, who owned the gallery of art La Perfecta, where he met the great artists of painting: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vázquez Díaz, etc.

At the age of 14 he started his education as a painter with the master José Camps, combining this with his studies in History of Art until he graduated from the University of Deusto in Madrid. He continues studying with important contemporary artists in France and Italy.

He finally settled in Madrid, where he lives and has his atelier since 1980. He has always kept a close link to San Sebastian, his home town, where he spends long periods of time. His work is the result of many influences.

Gerard Terburg (1617-1681)

Gerard ter Borch (December 1617 - 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch ⎆ genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.
He influenced fellow Dutch painters ⎆ Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou ⎆, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer ⎆.

According to Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Ter Borch:

"established a new framework for subject matter, taking people into the sanctum of the home"

showing the figures’ uncertainties and expertly hinting at their inner lives. His influence as a painter, however, was later surpassed by Vermeer ⎆.

Renoir | La Promenade, 1875-1876

A young woman shepherds a pair of identically dressed little sisters along the path of a well-maintained public park. All three figures are outfitted for the cold and in the height of fashion.

The eldest wears a blue velvet jacket with wide sleeves trimmed with red fox; the little girls wear miniature blue-green jackets trimmed with either swansdown or white mink.

Further up the pathway to the right, Renoir🎨 has included no fewer than eleven additional figures and two playful dogs.

Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt portraits by Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French Romantic painter, 1795-1858)🎨🎨 | Portrait of Frédéric Chopin, 1847

- Dordrecht Museum, Netherlands

Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano.

Édouard Manet ed il Realismo

Già negli esordi l'arte di Édouard Manet (1832-1883) apparve indubbiamente connotata da pressanti esigenze realiste, a tal punto che arrivò persino a infuriarsi con il maestro Couture, troppo legato agli accademismi («insomma, vi comportate così quando andate a comprare un mazzo di ravanelli dalla vostra fruttivendola?»).

A turbarlo in particolar modo era in particolare la mancanza di naturalezza delle pose adottate dalle modelle:

«Vedo che ha dipinto una finanziera.

E di eccellente fattura.

Ma dove sono finiti i polmoni della modella?

Sembra che sotto l’abito non respiri.

Come se non avesse un corpo.

È un ritratto da sarto»

Vicente López Portaña | The Marquess of Remisa, 1844

Title: The Marquess of Remisa
Author: Vicente López Portaña** (Spanish painter**, 1772-1850)
Date: 1844
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: w147.5 x h232
Current location: Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Yosuke Ueno / 上野陽介, 1977 | Pittore Pop-Surrealista

Yosuke Ueno è un artista autodidatta di fama internazionale.

La sua arte è un chiaro riflesso delle radici asiatiche dell'artista e dell'influenza della cultura pop contemporanea.

Le opere d'arte di Ueno sono ispirate alla religione giapponese dello Shinto che si basa sui particolari e sul godimento della natura.

Elementi fumettistici, giovani personaggi, improbabili piante, animali e creature antropomorfe popolano le sue surreali galassie dipinte su tela, e vivono felici in una dimensione psichedelica di superfici luccicanti.

Claude Monet | Argenteuil landscapes

From December 1871-1878 Oscar-Claude Monet (1840–1926) lived at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best-known works.

In 1873, Monet purchased a small boat equipped to be used as a floating studio.

From the boat studio Monet painted landscapes and also portraits of Édouard Manet and his wife; Manet in turn depicted Monet painting aboard the boat, accompanied by Camille, in 1874. In 1874, he briefly returned to Holland.

Claude Monet | Snow at Argenteuil, 1874

Claude Monet | Figures / Portraits

• I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...
• No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
• Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
• I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.
• I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Peder Severin Krøyer | Midsummer Eve bonfire on Skagen's beach, 1906

The painting includes many of the Skagen Painters: Krøyer's daughter Vibeke, mayor Otto Schwartz and his wife Alba Schwartz, Michael Ancher, Degn Brøndum, Anna Ancher, Holger Drachmann and his 3rd wife Soffi, the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén and Marie Krøyer.

This picture was Krøyer’s last large figure painting.

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909) gathers all the representatives of the artist colony, members of the town’s bourgeoisie, as well as some of the residents of Skagen, in a large circle around the Midsummer eve bonfire on Skagen Sønderstrand.

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)

William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter**, known as an exponent of Impressionism** and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.

Chase won many honors** at home and abroad, was a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and from 1885-1895 was president of the Society of American Artists.

He became a member of the Ten American Painters after John Henry Twachtman died.

Édouard Manet: "I need to work to feel well"

⦁ There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

⦁ No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

⦁ Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) Siesta

Frank Duveneck (October 9, 1848 - January 3, 1919) was born in Covington, Kentucky, outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848. He received his formal training in Munich at the Bavarian Royal Academy during the early 1870s, and established his own school there in 1878. The following year, Lizzie Boott and her father Francis, both expatriate artists from Boston, were among Duveneck’s students. Through the early 1880s Duveneck courted Miss Boott, who lived with her father at the Villa Castellani in Bellosguardo, outside of Florence.

He also traveled extensively during this period, from Munich to Florence, England and possibly the United States.

Édouard Manet: "Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity"

• "Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity".

• "Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.".

• "I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies".

Camille Corot (1796-1875) | Lo stile

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Corot è una delle figure più significative della pittura di paesaggio. Le sue opere, infatti, attingono a piene mani dalla tradizione neoclassica e, al contempo, anticipano le innovazioni en plein air dell'Impressionismo.

Claude Monet, nel 1897, avrebbe detto di lui: «Qui c'è un solo grande maestro: Corot. Non siamo nulla nei suoi confronti, nulla».

Né il suo contributo nella pittura di figura è meno importante: Edgar Degas, altro noto pittore impressionista, preferiva le sue figure rispetto ai suoi paesaggi, e in tal senso Corot esercitò un'influenza che traspare persino nelle tele di Pablo Picasso. Nella sua vita eseguì più di tremila dipinti ed era considerato dai contemporanei come uno dei massimi paesaggisti mai esistiti, a lato di nomi illustri come Claude Lorrain, John Constable e J. M. W. Turner.

Padovanino, Alessandro Varotari | The Archangel Michael

Padovanino or Varotari Alessandro Leone (4 April 1588 - 20 July 1649), also commonly known as Il Padovanino, was an Italian painter** of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque** Venetian school, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, and Bartolommeo Scaligero.

William Bouguereau | The Water Girl, 1885

One of Bouguereau’s favorite motifs was the idealized peasant girl dreamily engaged in rustic activities.

The innocence and simple grace of this subject (cleaner than her real-life counterparts would have been) epitomize the sentimental, non-threatening peasant archetype especially preferred by Bouguereau’s upper-class and American patrons.