Anders Zorn | Omnibus, 1892

Anders Zorn | Omnibus (1891-1892) | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (detail)

The electric evening light on the grand boulevards of Paris fascinated Anders Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860-1920).

With his virtuoso technique, he records here how it is reflected in the misted-up windows of an omnibus and falls on the faces and bodies of the passengers.

The main figure in the painting is the young woman with the square box. Behind her, a prostitute can be made out. Both represent the modern city, with its commercial attractions and dangers. | © Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Anders Zorn | Fish Market in Saint Ives, 1888

Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 - 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden's foremost artists.

He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and etcher.

Zorn was a prolific artist.

He became an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era.

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").

Stefano Bruzzi, il Macchiaiolo fiorentino

Stefano Bruzzi (1835-1911) nacque a Piacenza il 1º maggio 1835 da Pietro, magistrato, e da Anna Pistoni.

Compì gli studi umanistici nella città natale, ma vi frequentò saltuariamente l'istituto d'arte Gazzola, dove insegnava Lorenzo Toncini, robusto pittore di figura.

Sono di quegli anni briose caricature che ne rivelano lo spirito vigile e acuto.

Solo verso la fine del 1854 si recò a Roma, dove studiò con Alessandro Castelli, che l'abituò a riprodurre attentamente il vero, a copiare gli alberi fibra per fibra, i rami foglia per foglia, con segno preciso, esatto, con una tecnica schietta, senza sotterfugi.

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.

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".