Clara von Rappard | Symbolist painter

Clara Julia Elisa von Rappard (19 May 1857, Wabern bei Bern - 12 January 1912, Bern) was a Swiss painter.

She worked in a wide variety of genres and materials including illustrations, etchings and murals, although she is best known for landscapes and portraits.

She was the only child of Jurist Conrad von Rappard and Albertine Engell (1832-1922) of Mecklenburg, the younger sister of the writer and women's rights activist Juliane Engell-Günther.

Giovanni Vepkhvadze, 1949 | Memories of Tbilisi

Giovanni Vepkhvadze / ჯოვანი ვეფხვაძე (1949-2016) was born in a family of artists in Tbilisi.

In 1967 has entered Tbilisi’s State Academy of Arts on faculty of painting which has graduated in 1973.

The thesis - "In art studio of Beka Opizari" was created under the direction of the known Georgian artist Koki Makharadze.

In 1973 Vepkhvadze has been enlisted in the Creative workshop of painting of Academy of Arts of the USSR under the direction of the National artist of the USSR Ucha Dzaparidze.

Charis Tsevis, 1967 | Designer Neo futurista

Charis Tsevis / Χαράλαμπος Τσέβης o Χάρης Τσέβης, è un visual designer Greco che vive e lavora a Pafos, Cipro.

Ha conseguito un Diploma in Graphic Design presso l'Akademie für das Grafische Gewerbe, München ed un Master in Visual Design presso la Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano.

Gestisce un modesto studio sull'isola di Cipro al servizio di clienti in tutto il mondo.

Leonardo da Vinci | La luce, l’ombra ed i colori

Pruova come tutte le cose poste in un sito sono tutte per tutto e tutte nella parte

Dico che, se una faccia d’uno edifizio o altra piazza o campagnia che sia illuminata dal sole avrà al suo opposito un’abitazione, e in quella faccia che non vede il sole sia fatto un piccolo spiracolo rotondo, che tutte le alluminate cose manderanno la loro similitudine per detto spiraculo e appariranno dentro all’abitazione nella contraria faccia, la quale voi essere bianca, e saranno lì appunto e sotto sopra, e se per molti lochi di detta faccia faciessi simili buchi, simile effetto farebbe in ciascuno.

Domenico Fetti | David with the Head of Goliath, 1620

Domenico Fetti (1589-1623) was probably born in Rome, where he trained with the Florentine Ludovico Cigoli in the early years of the 17th century and studied the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and his followers.

Through Cigoli, Fetti was introduced to Cardinal Ferdinando Gonzaga, who returned to Mantua in 1613 to become Duke Ferdinando II, inviting Fetti to come with him and serve as Court Painter.

In Mantua, Fetti saw the works of Peter Paul Rubens, whose transparent red and blue fleshtones he adopted, as well as the art of Giulio Romano and that of the great Venetian painters of the 16th century, Titian and Tintoretto, whose rich colors and rapid, painterly brushtrokes greatly informed his mature style.

Domenico Fetti | David with the head of Goliath, 1620 (detail) | Hampton Court Palace

Princess Louise Hollandine | Baroque painter

Princess Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (18 April 1622 - 11 February 1709) was a painter and abbess.

She was a daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and Scottish princess Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James VI and I.

She is also known for her romantic involvement with the Marquess of Montrose.

Early life

Born in April 1622, Louise Hollandine was born at the Hague Palace in Holland, as her father was living in exile at the court of his uncle, Maurice, Prince of Orange.

It is Ginevra Cantofoli the painter of the masterpiece known as the "Portrait of Beatrice Cenci"!

A long historical tradition has identified Beatrice Cenci in this portrait.

Formerly attributed to Guido Reni, it is now attributed to Italian Baroque painter Ginevra Cantofoli (Bologna 1618-1672).

The girl turns to us with an appealing and innocent gaze that reminds us of her tragic fate.

After years of oppression and abduction in a castle, Beatrice supported by her brothers and stepmother planned the murder of her father, Francesco Cenci, who was a dissolute and deprived man.

Ginevra Cantofoli | Woman in a Turban, 1650 (detail) | Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Roma