Sandro Botticelli, il pittore del Rinascimento

All'apice della sua fama, il pittore e disegnatore fiorentino Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) fu uno degli artisti più stimati in Italia.

Le sue graziose raffigurazioni della Madonna col Bambino, le sue pale d'altare e i suoi dipinti mitologici a grandezza naturale, come "Venere e Marte", godettero di un'enorme popolarità durante la sua vita.

Figlio di un conciatore, nacque Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, ma gli fu dato il soprannome "Botticelli" (derivato dalla parola "botticello", che significa "piccola botte di vino").

Carol Carter, 1955 | Pittrice acquerellista

Carol Carter è una pittrice di St. Louis, uno degli artisti più interessanti che oggi lavora principalmente con acquerelli ed acrilici su larga scala.

Ha esposto ampiamente negli ultimi diciotto anni sia a livello regionale, nazionale che internazionale, comprese diciassette mostre personali e numerose mostre collettive e su invito.

Sebbene dipinga anche acrilici in grande formato, le armonie dei colori trasparenti rendono i suoi acquerelli molto particolari.

Filippo Palizzi | The Excavation of Pompeii, 1870

Filippo Palizzi | The Excavation of Pompeii, 1865

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter🎨 of the Verismo style.

He moved to Naples in 1837 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but withdrew after a few months to attend the private school of the painter Giuseppe Bonolis.

Contact with his brother Giuseppe, who moved to France in 1844, introduced him to the painting of the Barbizon School.

Vincenzo Caprile | Il sogno (nel sorriso della fede)

Vincenzo Caprile (Naples, June 24, 1856 - Naples, 1936) was an Italian painter🎨, mainly Genre scenes and landscape paintings depicting the coast of Amalfi.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples with Domenico Morelli🎨 and Gabriele Smargiassi. He was attached to the School of Resina associated with Filippo Palizzi.

Vincenzo Migliaro | Mercato del pesce a Porta Capuana

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938) was an Italian painter born in Naples.

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.

Luigi Nono | Abandoned, 1903

Luigi Nono (Fusina, December 8, 1850 - Venice, October 17, 1918) was an Italian painter.

A young Nono entered the Accademia of Venice, then under the leadership of Pompeo Marino Molmenti. But by at the age of twenty years, he went to Polcenigo in the Friulian countryside, and he began to refine his style of landscape paintings, including Sull' Avemaria, Le sorgenti del Gorgazzo, Ritorno dai campi, and Verso sera.

He later returned to painting genre subjects of everyday life, and these paintings would prove to be his most influential.

Fausto Zonaro | La Sultana, 1920

Fausto Zonaro🎨 (18 September 1854 - 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter🎨, best known for his Realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire.

Zonaro painted portraits, landscapes and historical paintings. It is claimed that "Zonaro was one of those who made a major contribution to the development of western style art in Turkey".

He was a prolific artist who created hundreds of works, most of which are of the Ottoman Empire. An exhibition of his work in Florence in 1977 "received wide acclaim in the art world".