Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)

Edward William Cooke was an English🎨 landscape and marine painter and gardener.

Cooke was born in Pentonville, London, the son of well-known line engraver George Cooke; his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855), was also a line engraver of note, and Edward was raised in the company of artists.

He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects (in special in sailing ships) and published his "Shipping and Craft" - a series of accomplished engravings - when he was 18, in 1829.

Vladimir Kush, 1965 | Pillow Book

Il dipinto raffigura il momento del risveglio.

Quando la notte tiene ancora le redini nella parte oscura del letto-libro, e la luce dorata del mattino penetra attraverso le tende aperte dello spazio dell'abitazione.

I sogni guariscono la propria anima, bilanciando la realtà con elementi di magia ed il mondo intangibile della fantasia.

Morpheus sta ancora salvaguardando il sonno dorato che rimane sulle ciglia setose della ragazza.

Un segnalibro a forma di piuma d'uccello simboleggia il volo dell'immaginazione.

Franz Skarbina | Pittore impressionista

Franz Skarbina (1849-1910) è stato un pittore impressionista Tedesco, disegnatore, incisore ed illustratore.

Nato a Berlino, era figlio di un orafo di Zagabria.

Dal 1865-1869, ha studiato all'Accademia delle arti prussiane.

Dopo la laurea, ha trascorso due anni come tutor alle figlie del conte Friedrich von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky (1821-1909), durante il quale ha viaggiato a Dresda, Vienna, Venezia, Monaco, Norimberga e Merano.

Dietz Edzard (1893-1963)

Dietz (Dietrich Hermann) Edzard (1893-1963) was born in Bremen.

From 1911, he studied painting at Max Beckmann in Berlin, and worked in the Netherlands thereafter.

In 1927, he moved to France, and in 1929 the first exhibition of his work took place in Paris at the Jeu de Paume, a museum exclusively devoted to Impressionist masters. He got married to the artist Suzanne Eisendieck (1908-1998) in 1938.

During the Second World War, he was captured in the detention and deportation camp Les Milles.

His works are held by the collections of international art museums, and by American and Canadian private collections.

Guiding themes of his creativity are the circus and the theatre.

Luciano Ventrone | Hyperrealist painter

Born in Rome, Luciano Ventrone attended Liceo Artistico in Rome. After graduation in 1946 he started studying Architecture. In 1968 he left the University and focused on painting.

Even though Luciano Ventrone is internationally recognized as one of the master realist painters of his generation, he believes that his works are really about optics:

"Painting is not about the mere representation of an object, but its color and light", he says.

"The subject cannot be seen as it is but as an abstract element".

Luigi Pastega | Genre painter

Luigi Pastega (Venice, 1858-1927) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.

He was a pupil of Pompeo Marino Molmenti and Napoleone Nani at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.

He continued to reside in Venice painting vedute and genre subjects in a style that recalled Giacomo Favretto.

Napoleone Nani | Genre painter

Napoleone Nani (Venice 1841- Verona, 1899) was an Italian painter, active in Venice, where he became professor of the Accademia di Belle Arti.

In 1877 at Naples, he displayed his self-portrait and a canvas titled: La posa; in 1881 at Venice, he displayed: La macchina riposa, il cuore lavora; at the 1883 Promotrice of Florence: Lo studio dal vero; at Rome the same year: Lo studio del nudo and Il primo pensiero ai miei fiori. Successively in Turin, Milan, and Rome, he exhibited: Vizio, Trattative di conciliazione, Giudizio di un intelligente, and Studio.