Gianni De Conno | Surrealist book illustrator

Gianni De Conno (Milan, 1957 - Milan, 26 agosto 2017) is an Italian painter.

In 1990 Gianni received the Gold Plate🎨 of Italian Illustrators Annual, in 1998, 2000 and 2001 the Communication Arts Award of Excellence, in 2002 the Stepan Zavrel prize for Children's Illustrator and the Silver Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for artistic merits.

Gianni De Conno is teaching in the main schools of illustration.

He has illustrated and published numerous books for children.

Gianni Strino, 1953 | Supper at Emmaus

Gianni Strino is considered to be a major representative of the modern Neapolitan aesthetic movement. His most notable qualities as a figure painter lie in his ability to penetrate beyond surfaces, and paint in depths.

Gianni Strino was born in 1953 in Naples, Italy.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Strino see:

• Gianni Strino, 1953 | Figurative painter🎨

Pontormo | Pittore Manierista

Jacopo Carrucci (1494-1557), conosciuto come Jacopo da Pontormo, o semplicemente il Pontormo, è stato un pittore Italiano.

Avviò una sistematica opera di rinnovamento degli schemi compositivi della tradizione, talvolta spregiudicato, cercando di reagire al classicismo pittorico attraverso un'inesauribile vena sperimentale ed anticlassicista.

La sua complessa personalità, introversa e tormentata, ne fa il prototipo dell'artista malinconico e solitario.

Malcolm Liepke, 1953

Malcolm T. Liepke, American painter, was born and raised in Minneapolis.

As a student he hungered for 'classical' training rather than the 'conceptual' ideas being taught.

In a bold move, he left the Art Center College in Los Angeles and went to New York.

Charles William Mitchell | Hypatia of Alexandria, 1885

Charles William Mitchell (1854-1903) was an British Pre-Raphaelite painter from Newcastle.

A contemporary of John William Waterhouse, his work is similar in many ways.

His one famous piece was Hypatia, shown in 1885 and likely inspired by the Charles Kingsley serialized novel Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face. This painting is currently in the Laing Art Gallery.

Charles William Mitchell - Hypatia, 1885

Georg Pauli | Pittore simbolista

Georg Vilhelm Pauli (Jönköping, 2 luglio 1855 – Stoccolma, 28 novembre 1935) è stato un pittore Svedese, noto per i suoi affreschi ed i suoi soggetti maschili.

Egli scrisse inoltre dei libri relativi all'arte.

Il padre August Ferdinand Pauli (1815-1904) era un farmacista e un industriale.

La sua famiglia discendeva dal generale luogotenente Wilhelm Pauli, che a sua volta discendeva da una famiglia italiana che era partita dalla penisola sotto il patrocinio dell'imperatore Rodolfo II, all'inizio della guerra dei trent'anni, e poi era giunta in Svezia, dove venne accettata nella nobiltà nel 1625.

Caravaggio | Madonna of the Rosary / Madonna del Rosario, 1608

The Madonna of the Rosary is a painting finished in 1607 by the Italian🎨 Baroque painter Caravaggio🎨, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is the only painting by Caravaggio that could be called a standard Baroque🎨 altarpiece.

The commissioner of the work is uncertain. As altarpiece it would have been commissioned for a Dominican church, given the presence of Saint Dominic and Saint Peter Martyr of Verona. The donor is included in the painting; at the left, dressed in black with a ruff, seeking protection under the cloak of Saint Dominic and peering out at the viewer.

According to some, the donor was Nicholas (or Nicholas) Radulovic, a rich merchant of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik in Croatia) and the first idea for the composition was a Madonna Enthroned with Saints Nicholas and Vito, then the subject was changed to reflect the wishes of the Dominicans.