Léon-Adolphe Belly | Femmes fellahs au bord du Nil, 1856

Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (1827-1877) was French orientalist landscape painter.

Belly was born at St. Omer, in 1827. He studied under Troyon, and in 1849 visited Barbizon where he came under the influence of Théodore Rousseau.

In 1850-1851 he travelled to Greece, Syria, and the Black Sea. In 1853 he made his debut at the Paris Salon, exhibiting four landscapes of Nablus and Beirut, and of the shores of the Dead Sea, which attracted critical acclaim. In 1855-1856 he visited Egypt, travelling up the Nile in the company of another painter, Edouard Imer. A second trip to Egypt in 1856 was largely spent making studies for his painting Pilgrims going to Mecca, now in the Musée d'Orsay.

As well as his paintings of Middle Eastern subjects he painted portraits and landscapes of Normandy and the Sologne throughout his career, and in 1867 bought land at Montauban. He died in Paris in 1877.

Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (Saint Omer 1827 - Parigi 1877) è stato un pittore Francese di scene di genere, di ritratti, di paesaggi, di temi a soggetto orientalista.

Attivo a: Saint Omer, Parigi.

Edward Henry Potthast | Pittore Impressionista

Edward Henry Potthast (Cincinnati, 10 giugno 1857 - New York, 9 marzo 1927) è stato un pittore Statunitense impressionista.

È conosciuto per i suoi dipinti raffiguranti persone durante il tempo libero al Central Park e sulle spiagge di New York e Nuova Inghilterra.

Edward Henry Potthast nacque a Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dal 10 giugno del 1879 fino al 9 marzo del 1881 studiò con Thomas Satterwhite Noble.

Egli studiò più tardi alla Royal Academy a Monaco di Baviera con l'istruttore di origine statunitense Carl Marr.

Norman Lindsay | Modern painter / sculptor

Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeler Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was one of ten children of Dr and Mrs Charles Lindsay, of Creswick, Victoria. Remarkably, five of their progeny became artists of distinction. He is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists.

From an early age, Norman showed an outstanding ability to draw. He became the principal cartoonist for the Bulletin magazine, fought many controversies against "wowsers", particularly defending his right to paint the figure, wrote novels and children's books including 'The Magic Pudding' and also made ship models and garden sculptures.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Idylle, 1851

"Before starting work, steep yourself in your subject; if you don’t fully understand it, seek further or turn to something else.

Remember that everything must be thought out beforehand, everything, down to the last details".

John Atkinson Grimshaw | Ariadne at Naxos, 1877

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will".

"Se non controlli la tua vita, lo farà qualcun altro".

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

Jean-Claude Campana, 1941

Jean-Claude Campana è un artista Francese nato nel 1941 che attualmente vive e lavora a Venezia.

Ha iniziato la sua carriera esponendo insieme a Baboulène, Buffet, Hilaire, Brayer.

L'approccio di questi Maestri incoraggia il talento di Campana, che già in gioventù, costruisce un carattere forte.

Forte della sua esperienza nel surrealismo, nel simbolismo e nel realismo, Jean-Claude Campana è devoto a Venezia, con uno stile molto personale.

Lord Frederic Leighton | Greek Girls Playing at Ball, 1889

Frederic Leighton, later Lord Leighton (1830-1896) was one of the leading Victorian Classicists, a group of late 19th century artists inspired by classical art.

They painted historical, biblical and classical subjects and their style tended to be sophisticated and highly polished.

"Greek Girls Playing Ball" does not refer to a specific historical or mythological event.