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Jean-Gabriel Domergue, the inventor of the Pin-Up
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women. He went on to paint approximately 3,000 portraits. Domergue invented a new type of woman: thin, airy,...
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Eugène Galien-Laloue
French painter Eugène Galien-Laloue [1854-1941] was born in Paris on 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings o f the early 1900s accurately...
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Il pittore Spagnolo Bartolomé Esteban Pérez Murillo (1618-1682) è una delle figure più importanti della pittura Barocca spagnola. Nacque nel 1618, ultimo figlio di una famiglia di quattordici fratelli....
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Peter Miller ~ Vintage Car painter
British painter Peter Miller has been inspired by the early motoring scene and the evocation of the Golden Era which it personifies. The key subject matter in this has been the Rolls-Royce and Bentley...
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Ralph Grady James
In the Piedmont area of North Carolina American painter Ralph Grady James spends his days in creative pursuits. Nestled at the base of the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont not only gives quick...
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Marc Chagall ~ Aforismi
Ci fu un tempo in cui avevo due teste, vi fu un tempo in cui questi volti erano bagnati dalla rugiada dell'amore e disciolti come profumo di rosa. Ora mi sembra che anche quando indietreggio avanzo...
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► Jean Abrie
South African painter Jean Abrie was born in the former Eastern Transvaal and in his early years grew up in Zimbabwe. There he developed a great love for wildlife. Upon returning to South African he...
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Il Festival delle Sculture di Harbin
Il Festival Internazionale Cinese del Ghiaccio e Neve - “Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival” - si svolge fin dal 1984 nella città di Harbin, sita nella provincia orientale del...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti ~ Aforismi
Si dipinge col cervello e non con le mani.Come fiamma più cresce più contesa dal vento, ogni virtù, che il cielo esalta, tanto più splende quant'è più offesa.La mia allegrezza è la malinconia.Desti a...
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Helene Schjerfbeck ~ Finnish painter
Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work...
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► Oscar Wilde & Amy Brown
- L'arte non esprime mai altro che se stessa.- Il pensiero e il linguaggio sono per l'artista gli strumenti della sua arte.- L'arte è una passione.- E' solo il battitore d'asta che può ammirare...
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Gaylord Ho, 1950
Taiwanese sculptor Gaylord Ho was born in Hsin-Wu, Taiwan. Born to poor farmers Gaylord spent most of his free time helping, along with his brother, with the chores of scratching out a living on a...
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✍ Leonardo da Vinci ~ Che differenza è dalla pittura alla poesia
Trattato della Pittura - Parte prima /17 La pittura è una poesia muta, e la poesia è una pittura cieca, e l'una e l'altra vanno imitando la natura quanto è possibile alle loro potenze, e per l'una e...
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Goxwa Borg, 1961
Maltese painter Goxwa Borg was born in Valetta, Malta. She began painting at a very young age and enrolled at the Saint Martin School of Art. Years later, she moved to Boston where she attended Emerson...
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Hocine Ziani, 1953
Algerian painter Hocine Ziani was born in Algeria, lives and works in France. He is an autodidactartist. Professional painter since 1978-1993 in Algeria, 1994-2009 in France. Founding member of the...
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Pavel Mitkov, 1977
Award winning painter Pavel Mitkov, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most successful and collected Bulgarian artist in the European connoisseur of art community in recent years. Extremely talented, his...
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Isaac Israels ~ Dutch Impressionist painter
Isaac Lazarus Israëls (1865-1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida...
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Leonard Cohen & Boris Indrikov ~ Signora Inverno..
Signora in viaggio, resta ancora un po’finché la notte non sarà terminataSono solo una tappa del tuo cammino,so che non sono il tuo amante.Vivevo con una bimba di nevequand’ero soldatoe combattei ogni...
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Sir William Russell Flint
Scottish painter and illustrator Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969) was known especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils, tempera and printmaking. He was born in...
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