Xi Pan, 1971

Pan Xi 潘曦, nota come Xixi, è nata a Wenzhou, nella provincia di Zhejiang.

Nella sua infanzia, ogni settimana, con la sorella, ha visitato i laboratori degli artisti, nell'Istituto d'Arte diretto dal padre e ha sviluppato il suo gusto per il disegno e la pittura.

Pan Xi ha iniziato i suoi studi di belle arti nel 1989 presso l'Accademia Nazionale di Belle Arti di Hangzhou in Cina.

Tintoretto (1518-1594)

Tintoretto è stato un pittore italiano, cittadino della Repubblica di Venezia e uno dei massimi esponenti della pittura veneta e dell'arte manierista in generale.

Il soprannome "Tintoretto" gli derivò dal mestiere paterno, tintore di tessuti di seta. Per la sua energia fenomenale nella pittura è stato soprannominato Il furioso o il terribile, come lo definì il Vasari per il suo carattere forte, e il suo uso drammatico della prospettiva e della luce, che lo ha fatto considerare il precursore dell'arte barocca.

Dalle analisi effettuate negli anni '70 su campioni prelevati dalle tele della Scuola Grande di San Rocco, si sono ottenute preziose informazioni riguardo ai materiali e alle tecniche impiegate da Tintoretto.

James Tissot | A visit to the yacht, c. 1873

James-Joseph-Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) arrived in London in the summer of 1871 and almost from the first he was drawn to the river Thames as a subject for his elegant paintings.

Perhaps the water and the associated sounds and sights of the bustling docks reminded him of his childhood in the seaport of Nantes, or maybe he realised that painting life at the edge of the river opened a wealth of subjects for him to explore and attract a new audience.

Pablo Picasso | Portraits

The total number of artworks Picasso produced has been estimated at 50.000, comprising 1.885 paintings, 1.228 sculptures, 2.880 ceramics, roughly 12.000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.

At the time of his death many of his paintings were in his possession, as he had kept off the art market what he did not need to sell.

In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as Henri Matisse, with whom he had exchanged works. Since Pablo Picasso left no will, his death duties to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection.

These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris. In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Málaga, Spain, the Museo Picasso Málaga.

Maggie Vandewalle, 1963

Maggie Vandewalle è nata e cresciuta appena fuori Iowa City, Iowa, in un ambiente rurale.

Da bambina divideva il suo tempo tra campi e boschi vaganti, perlustrando la biblioteca pubblica alla ricerca di buoni libri e scarabocchiando per sempre.

Ha ricevuto una borsa di studio d'arte presso l'Università dell'Iowa nel 1981, dove ha lavorato per un BFA in incisione sotto Virginia Myers.

Dopo la scuola si è dedicata alla pittura, in parte a causa del costo delle attrezzature per la stampa, ma anche per soddisfare il desiderio di risultati più immediati.

Aram Nersisyan (Armenian painter, 1958)

Aram Nersisyan is an Armenian pastel painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Nersisyan was born in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

Luisa Villavicencio

Luisa Villavicencio Aliaga è una pittrice, insegnante di arti visive e terapista. Vive e lavora a Santiago, in Cile.

Luisa Villavicencio: "Dipingo perché voglio chiedere a tutti di essere persone migliori, più espressione di sentimento e comprensione.

L'amore è molto importante nella vita di ogni essere umano.

I miei colori sono intimamente legati alla forma, perché i miei colori dicono quello che sento.

La mia arte cerca la bellezza nella composizione, espressione del gesto, armonia e proporzione, degli elementi estetici".

Matthias Grünewald (German Renaissance painter, 1470-1528)

Matthias Grünewald was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.

His first name is also given as Mathis and his surname as Gothart or Neithardt. Only ten paintings—several consisting of many panels—and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea in the Baltic on their way to Sweden as war booty.

His present worldwide reputation, however, is based chiefly on his greatest masterpiece, the "Isenheim Altarpiece" c.1513-15, which was long believed to have been painted by Dürer. Grünewald grew up in Würzburg near Nuremberg, and from 1501-1521 he was proprietor of a workshop in Seligenstadt.

Man Ray | Jazz, 1919

Man Ray was American painter, maker of Surrealist objects and photographer.

Born in Philadelphia. Worked in an advertising office and then part-time as draughtsman for publishers of books on engineering, atlases and maps.

Attended life-drawing classes at the Ferrer Center, New York, under George Bellows in 1912.

After seeing the Armory Show in 1913, began to paint in a Cubist style.

Met Duchamp in 1915 and collaborated with him in initiating a proto-Dada movement in New York.

Eugenio Cecconi | Donna in lettura

Eugenio Cecconi nasce a Livorno l'8 settembre 1842 da famiglia benestante. Viene avviato, per volontà del padre, agli studi giuridici presso la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell'Università di Pisa anche se la sua reale passione si dimostra quasi immediatamente nel campo dell'arte.

Titian | An Idyll: A Mother and a Halberdier in a Wooded Landscape, 1505-1510

This painting is informed by the bucolic poetry of such classical sources as Virgil’s Georgics and Eclogues and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

The subject of printed, painted, and drawn images, landscapes of shaded groves, musicians, shepherds, and languid nymphs were a quintessentially Venetian genre in the early sixteenth century.

Titian | An Idyll: A Mother and a Halberdier in a Wooded Landscape, 1505-1510 | Harvard Art Museums

The most celebrated, and perhaps most enigmatic, of these is Giorgione’s Tempest, which shows the same configuration of a seated woman and a standing figure found here.

The purpose, subject, and meaning of these evocative paintings is still unclear, leading some scholars to argue that they inaugurated a new genre of landscape painting, one based on secular rather than sacred sources. | Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum

Allan Douglas Davidson | An English Yum-Yum, 1906

"An English Yum-Yum: my lady lights the sombre day: A scene from The Mikado", signed and dated 'Allan Davidson 1906', belongs to a tradition going back to Whistler's Japanese subjects of the 1860s and '70s, by way of paintings inspired by visits to Japan by Whistler's pupil Mortimer Menpes (1887), Alfred East (1889) and the two 'Glasgow Boys', George Henry and E.A. Hornel (1893-4).

The picture's title is taken from Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy opera The Mikado, first staged in March 1885. | Source: © Christie's

Leonor Fini (1907-1996)

Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 1907 - Parigi, 1996) nacque da padre argentino di origini beneventane e madre triestina di origini tedesche.

In seguito alla separazione, madre e figlia rientrarono a Trieste nel 1909 ospiti dello zio Ernesto Braun.

La bambina fu al centro di una strenua lotta tra i genitori.

La madre occultò la bambina adottando la tecnica del travestimento: Leonor Fini in futuro adotterà spesso, anch'essa, questo stratagemma per scandalizzare gli abitanti dei paesini del Carso sloveno o per divertire amici e colleghi.

Rosso pompeiano | I colori degli antichi Romani

Il rosso pompeiano si riferisce al colore del pigmento minerale a base di ossido di ferro con una tonalità vicina all'ocra rossa, così chiamato per il suo uso comune nell'antica pittura romana e per il fatto che è abbondante nei murales di Pompei.

Studi hanno dimostrato che le pareti con sfondi rosso pompeiano erano dipinte in vari modi, di cui l'uso del cinabro era il più costoso.

Con questo termine si definisce anche il colore rosso ocra di un intonaco caratteristico della ceramica romana.

Coordinate del colore

HEX #A22E37

sRGB1 (r;g; b) (162; 46; 55)

CMYK2 (c;m;y;k) (0; 72; 66; 36)

HSV (h;s;v) (355°; 72%; 64%)

Canaletto (1697-1768)

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or Vedute of Venice.

He was also an important printmaker in etching. His pupils included his nephew Bernardo Bellotto, Francesco Guardi, Michele Marieschi, Gabriele Bella and Giuseppe Moretti.

The painter, Giuseppe Bernardino Bison was a follower of his style. Joseph Smith sold much of his collection to George III, creating the bulk of the large collection of Canalettos owned by the Royal Collection.

There are many examples of his work in other British collections, including several at the Wallace Collection and a set of 24 in the dining room at Woburn Abbey. Canaletto's views always fetched high prices, and as early as the 18th century Catherine the Great and other European monarchs vied for his grandest paintings.

Claude Monet | Morning on the Seine near Giverny, 1897

Begun in 1896, Monet’s Mornings on the Seine series was not completed until 1897 because of inclement weather.

Having patiently scouted out views along the river, Monet then painted the pictures from a boat that he had converted into a floating studio.

For an extended period he rose by dawn in order to paint the changing effects of light as the sun came up.

He then lined up the canvases on easels in his studio to complete them together as a series.

Fifteen were shown at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1898. | © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet | Morning on the Seine near Giverny, 1897 | Metropolitan Museum of Art