Charles Caryl Coleman | Capri, 1897

American painter Charles Caryl Coleman (1840-1928) was born in 1840. He was a landscape, portrait and figure painter who lived most of his life in Capri, Italy.

Coleman studied art with Andrew Andrews and W.H. Beard in Buffalo, NY in the 1850s.

He traveled to Paris to study for three years before returning to America in 1862 to enlist in the Civil War.

Robert Auer (Zagabria, 1873-1952)

Robert Auer è stato un pittore Croato della Secessione. Robert Auer nacque in una ricca famiglia di Zagabria da Ferdinando e Amelija Auer.

I suoi fratelli erano l'architetto Bela Auer e Koloman Auer, che ereditò un'attività di tipografia da suo padre. Robert ha frequentato una scuola tecnica prima di andare all'università a Vienna e Monaco.

Dopo gli studi, è stato coinvolto nella scena artistica di Zagabria, in particolare nei circoli che circondano il movimento della Secessione.

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