Michelangelo | Il ragazzo accovacciato, 1530-1534

Il genio del Rinascimento Michelangelo fu un eccezionale architetto e poeta, nonché il creatore dei celebri affreschi nella Cappella Sistina del Vaticano.

Ma la sua vocazione principale era senza dubbio la scultura.

La concezione dell'opera dell'Ermitage è connessa con l'opera di Michelangelo sulla Cappella Medicea - il sepolcro della famiglia dei sovrani di Firenze.

Egisto Lancerotto (1847-1916) | Genre painter

Egisto Lancerotto è stato un pittore Italiano.

Egisto Lancerotto trascose la sua infanzia a Noale fino al 1853, quando il padre Giuseppe, impiegato dell'Impero Asburgico nel Distretto di Noale, fu costretto a trasferirsi a Venezia per motivi di lavoro.

Questo cambiamento fu motivato dalla soppressione del distretto, in seguito alle vicende legate all'attività del patriota risorgimentale Pietro Fortunato Calvi nativo di questo Comune (che sarà poi ripreso da Egisto in uno dei quadri della collezione comunale).

Jusepe de Ribera / Lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652)

Jusepe de Ribera è stato un pittore Spagnolo, uno dei massimi protagonisti della pittura napoletana ed europea del XVII secolo nonché uno dei più rilevanti pittori seguaci del filone del caravaggismo napoletano, da cui derivò una peculiare corrente pittorica di cui fu il promotore, il tenebrismo, che vedeva una esasperata rappresentazione della realtà, violenta e brutale, accentuata da particolari epidermici, anatomici e psichici nei personaggi raffigurati.

Il suo stile, che nel tempo si evolve verso un classicismo neoveneto, fu modello e punto di riferimento per i pittori partenopei coevi e di generazioni successive, segnando in maniera indelebile tutta la pittura napoletana del Seicento.

Gaudenzio Ferrari (Italian painter, 1471-1546)

Gaudenzio Ferrari was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in the Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the Province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from Gerolamo Giovenone.

He subsequently studied in Milan, in the school of the Cathedral artisan Giovanni Stefano Scotti, and perhaps alongside Bernardino Luini. Circa 1504 he proceeded to Florence. It was once thought that he later moved to Rome. He died in Milan.

Gerard ter Borch | Genre painter

Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681), also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.

He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer.

According to Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Ter Borch "established a new framework for subject matter, taking people into the sanctum of the home", showing the figures' uncertainties and expertly hinting at their inner lives.

His influence as a painter, however, was later surpassed by Vermeer.

Michelle Torrez (American painter, 1956)

Torrez believes that the greatest influences on her work were the circumstances of her childhood and teenage years: "My life has influenced me to look deeper to find the beauty and humanity in people and places. Even at an early age, I knew I was an artist".

Known for her color work, Michelle Torrez does expressionistic oil paintings of figures that are intended to communicate the beauty of unlikely emotion, movement and life.

Born in Denver, Colorado, Torrez is the oldest of four children from a working class family. Caring for her younger siblings while her parents worked, she would sit on the porch and draw to pass the time. "The other children would come around to watch, and art soon became a way of making friends for me". Instead of playing with other children, she drew them on computer paper her father brought home from his job at IBM.

Wilfred Jenkins (British Victorian painter, 1857-1936)

Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins was a little known Victorian artist whose work is, according to the Dictionary of British Artists, now beginning to arouse interest as he painted moonlit street and dock scenes in the style of J. Atkinson Grimshaw🎨.

As with the latter his works, often moonscapes, are incredibly atmospheric depicting a gothic view of Victorian England that inspires as many people today as in Jenkins’s own lifetime.