Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, 1527-1593)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.

Arcimboldo was born in Milan in 1527, the son of Biagio, a painter who did work for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo did not leave written certificates on himself or his artwork. After the deaths of Arcimboldo and his patron—the emperor Rudolph II—the heritage of the artist was quickly forgotten, and many of his works were lost. They were not mentioned in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Only in 1885 did the art critic K. Kasati publish the monograph "Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Milan Artist" in which the main attention was given to Arcimboldi's role as a portraitist.

Ettore Tito | Le mondine in Polesine, 1885

Ettore Tito🎨 (17 December 1859 - 26 June 1941) was an Italian artist🎨 particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region.

He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and from 1894 to 1927 was the Professor of Painting there.

Tatiana Deriy (Russian painter, 1973)

Tatiana Deriy is a dynamically growing painter, whose major creative goal is comprehension of unity of the world's esthetic beauty and its profound meaning as well as rendering them to viewers through painting.

Born in a wonderful part of Moscow region, not far from ''Archangelskoye" estate full of creations of famous architects and sculptors, refinement of palace parks and canvases by Veroneze and Tintoretto, at an early age she developed special world outlook which later on defined the tenor of her work, based on the sense of harmony and beauty.

Comprehending the secrets of mastery of great painters of the past became her primary objective. In 1985 she entered Moscow Art College a hors concurs, graduated from it, which enabled her to continue education in Moscow State Academic Institute named after V.Surikov.

Max Svabinsky (1873-1962)

Max Švabinský (1873-1963) was a Czech painter🎨, draughtsman, graphic artist, and professor in Academy of Graphic Arts in Prague.

Švabinský is considered one of the more notable artists in the history of Czech painting and produced significant work during the first half of the 20th century.

He was relatively unusual among modernist artists in that his work was accepted by the communist regime; this was due at least in part to his having formed his artistic personality prior to 1900, prior to the advent of cubism. | © Wikipedia

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Seascape, 1879

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)

Title: Seascape

Origin: France

Date: 1879

Medium: Oil on canvas

Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Renoir'79

Dimensions: 72.6 × 91.6 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.)

Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection

Reference Number: 1922.438

Henri Lamy, 1985 | Abstract painter

Henri Lamy is a French figurative painter, being used to paint, thanks to his father, when he was a kid, Henri admires Pollock «drip painting» technique (that consists in dropping paint from the palette knife he uses, straight to the canvas, or even throwing it).

Angelo Morbelli | Per 80 centesimi! 1895

L’opera di Angelo Morbelli, uno dei capolavori del Museo Borgogna, venne acquistata nel 1912 alla Mostra d’Arte della campagna irrigua tenutasi a Vercelli, a pochi anni dall'apertura al pubblico del Museo.

Il dipinto, firmato e datato 1895, ha avuto una lunga e tormentata elaborazione, come testimonia la corrispondenza fra l’artista e il collega Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo: iniziato nel 1893, venne ripreso prima di essere esposto nel 1895 alla Biennale di Venezia.

La tela assume un ruolo importante per la collezione, non solo per l’appartenenza alla corrente pittorica del Divisionismo, ma soprattutto per il soggetto fortemente connesso al territorio vercellese.