Raphael (1483-1520) | Portraits

Raphael, born Raffaello Sanzio, was crowned the "Prince of Painters" by Giorgio Vasari, a sixteenth-century biographer of artists.

From his father, Raphael learned painting; in his native Urbino, he experienced intellectual court life.

A year after his father's sudden death, Raphael entered the workshop of Urbino's leading painter at age twelve and quickly surpassed his master.

Antonio Frilli (1880-1920) | Figurative sculptor

Antonio Frilli was a Florentine🎨 sculptor who specialized in marble and alabaster statues for public and private customers.

In 1860, Frilli established his first and exclusive Atelier in via dei Fossi, Florence, where he worked with a few assistants on medium-size refined painted alabasters and big white Carrara marble statues for private villas and monumental cemeteries.

Igor Maykov, 1966

Igor Maykov was born in Riga, Latvia. Study at the Academy, a private studio, open-air... actively exhibiting since 1994 participated in many exhibitions / 19 personal / and international art projects in Latvia and abroad! paintings are in private collections around the world.

Ivan Slavinsky / Иван Славинский, 1968

Ivan Slavinsky was born in Leningrad, Russia. His father, Dmitry Oboznenko, painter of battle-pieces, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and his mother - Galina Patrabolova, art critic.

Ivan began to paint with 5 years professional skills was the at school at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The first exhibition of Ivan Slavinsky in St. Petersburg took place in the gallery "Association of Free Artists" in 1991.

Marc Chagall | Between Darkness and Light, 1938-1943

"I don't know where he (Marc Chagall) gets those images; he must have an angel in his head".

"Non so dove (Marc Chagall) ottenga quelle immagini; deve avere un angelo in testa".

Pablo Picasso

Camille Corot: "Never lose the first impression which has moved you..."

In the 1860s, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) became interested in photography, taking photos himself and becoming acquainted with many early photographers, which had the effect of suppressing his painting palette even more in sympathy with the monochromatic tones of photographs.

This had the result of making his paintings even less dramatic but somewhat more poetic, a result which caused some critics to cite a monotony in his later work.

Camille Corot | Paysages

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) is a pivotal figure in landscape painting. In his long and productive life, he painted over 3,000 paintings. His work simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

Of him Claude Monet exclaimed in 1897, "There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing".