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