Marco De Gregorio (1829-1876) | School of Resina

Marco De Gregorio was an Italian painter🎨, who would form part of the School of Resina, painting works that spanned the spectrum from historical to genre🎨 topics.

He was born in Resina (present day Ercolano) near Naples.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples after 1850, where he was influenced by Gonsalvo Carelli and Giacinto Gigante.

An ardent patriot, in 1860 he joined Garibaldi and even participated in the Battle of Volturnus.

Federico Rossano | School of Resina

Federico Rossano (1835-1912) was an Italian painter in a Realist style.

Rossano was born in Naples, and studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, at the objection of his father, a former soldier in the army of Murat, and who wished his son to study architecture.

He was influenced by the School of Posillipo, and the style Filippo Palizzi, but developed his own subject matter.

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) | Still Lifes

Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter🎨 who was one of the creators of the painting style known as Fauvism.

Vlaminck was noted for his brash temperament and broad interests; he was at various times a musician, actor, racing cyclist and novelist.

He was also a self-taught artist who proudly shunned academic training, aside from drawing lessons.

In 1900 Vlaminck met the painter André Derain 🎨 during a train accident, and the two shared a studio from 1900-1901.

Jean-Francois Millet | Rest after work, 1866

During the harvest, a peasant's workday could last from the early hours of the morning until well into the evening, punctuated only by meal times and a rest from the sun at midday.

Here, a man and woman lay in the shade of a haystack.

The wheat sheaves to their right mirror their pose, while the pairs of sickles, shoes, and distant cows all reinforce the theme of companionship.

Jean-Francois Millet | Rest after work, 1866 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Emile Auguste Hublin | Genre painter

Emile Auguste Hublin (1830-1891) was born and raised in Angers, the historic capital of the northwestern French province of Anjou.

In the late 1840s or early 1850s, he moved to Paris, where he trained with François Edouard Picot, a student of Jacques-Louis David.

Hublin depicted his rural subjects in regional attire often revealing signs of wear.

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) | Quotes

Marie Alexandre Valentin Sellier (French, 19th/20th Century) | La farandole de Pétrarque, 1900

• "Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good".

• "L'amore è la grazia incoronante dell'umanità, il diritto più santo dell'anima, il legame d'oro che ci lega al dovere e alla verità, il principio redentrice che principalmente riconcilia il cuore con la vita ed è profetico del bene eterno".

Aloysius O'Kelly | Breton girls on a beach

Aloysius O'Kelly (1853-1936) was an Irish painter.

Early life

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Aloysius was the youngest of four boys and one girl to the Kelly family of Dublin. His grandparents on his father's side were natives of County Roscommon and his father ran a blacksmith's shop and dray making business in Peterson's Lane. It was his mother who directed him towards a career in the arts.