J.H.W. Tischbein | Diogenes looking for an Honest Man, 1780

"Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man" is a painting attributed to German painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829).

It depicts Diogenes of Sinope with a lantern searching for an honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope used to stroll about in full daylight with a lamp; when asked what he was doing, he would answer, "I am just looking for an honest man".

Henri Lebasque | Membro fondatore del Salon d'Automne

Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) fu membro fondatore del Salon d'Automne nel 1903 con il suo amico Henri Matisse ed espose al Salon des Indépendants.

Nacque in una famiglia modesta (il padre era bottaio) e si iscrisse all'Académie Colarossi nel 1886.

In seguito collaborò con Ferdinand Humbert agli affreschi del Panthéon per sei anni, a partire dal 1888.

Jean-Léon Gérôme | Pittore / Scultore Accademico

Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul, 11 maggio 1824 - Parigi, 28 gennaio 1904) è stato un pittore e scultore Francese.

Si oppose al movimento impressionista iniziato da Monet e Manet - continuando a sviluppare e conservare il neoclassicismo francese.

Le sue opere sono principalmente di tema storico, mitologico ed orientalistico portando la tradizione dell'Impero francese ad un climax.

La gamma delle sue opere comprendeva la pittura storica, la mitologia greca, l'orientalismo, i ritratti e altre materie, portando la tradizione della pittura accademica al culmine artistico.

Henri Lebasque (Post-impressionist painter, 1865-1937)

Famed as a painter of joy and light, Lebasque is admired for the intimacy of his subject matter and his unique delight in color and form.

Born in Champigné, Lebasque first trained in Angers at the School of Beaux-Arts and from 1886 onwards in Paris. Then he entered the atelier of the portraitist Leon Bonnat and began to exhibit at the annual art society exhibitions and the Paris Salons.

He later assisted Ferdinand Humbert with the decorative murals of the Pantheon.

Gaetano Esposito (1858-1911)

Gaetano Esposito è stato un pittore Italiano.

Appresi i primi rudimenti della pittura da Gaetano D'Agostino, fu poi allievo dell'Accademia di belle arti di Napoli, dove seguì i corsi di Filippo Palizzi, di Domenico Morelli e di Stanislao Lista.

William Bouguereau | L’Orientale à la grenade, 1875

At the close of the 1860s, William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s (1825-1905) reputation had been secured by his masterful portrayals of peasant life in the French countryside.

Yet the artist did not limit himself in sources of inspiration and, like many of his contemporaries, became interested in the people and culture of North Africa and the Middle East.

Konstantin Gorbatov | Boats in a Harbour, 1928

Charmed by Italy’s romantic aesthetics and inspired by its warmth and light, the Post-Impressionist artist Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov (1876-1945) created some of his most accomplished paintings while living on the island of Capri in the early 1920s.

Gorbatov and his wife emigrated to Berlin in 1926, but he returned annually to Italy until the beginning of World War II.

The monumental Boats in a Harbour, dated 1928, is an exquisite example of Gorbatov’s strength as a colourist and his bold mastery of light and shadow.