Marie Amalia, 1961 | Naif painter

Marie Amalia Bartolini was born an artist. Her mother, Suzy Bartolini, was already well known for her masterful reverse glass painting, and her father, Cyrille Bartolini, is a renowned sculptor.

Studying the fine arts at Paris University, and later enrolling the Beaux Arts School of Paris, Marie Amalia focused her study on the art of sculpture.

But after completing her courses, Amalia decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps, painting in the rare technique, «fixé sous verre», or «painting on reverse glass».

Exhibiting in European countries such as Paris, Bruxelles, Germany and her native France, Amalia's work is also exhibited in the United States by Edward Montgomery Fine Art in California.

Achille Glisenti | Genre painter

Achille Glisenti (October 1, 1848 - December 21, 1906) was an Italian painter, mostly of elegant genre and Orientalist subjects.

He was born in Brescia and had his first training there under Luigi Campini.

He then studied at the Brera Academy of Milan under Eleuterio Pagliano.

Jeong Hae-Kwang (정해광), 1963 | Hyperrealist painter

Jeong Hae-Kwang in an Korean painter, born in Seoul.

In 1989 he graduated from the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chung-Ang University (Korea).

Jeong Hae-Kwang is known for his hyper-realistic paintings of portraits and figures.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Rocks of L’Estaque, 1882

This is one of a small series of radiant landscapes that the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted during a stay with Paul Cézanne in L'Estaque, a small fishing port just west of Marseilles.

Renoir, who was travelling back to Paris having spent the previous months in Algeria and Italy, was immediately captivated by the raw light and rich beauty of the Provençal landscape.

"How beautiful it is!" he wrote to a friend, "It's certainly the most beautiful place in the world, and not yet inhabited… There are only some fishermen and the mountains…so there are no walls, no properties or few…here I have the true countryside at my doorstep".

Alexandr Melnikov, 1959 | Romantic painter

Alexandr Melnikov / Александр Мельников, originally of Russian descent, was born in Moscow region.

He is graduated in the High School of Arts of Odessa and in the National Academy of Kiev.

Aleksandr Melnikov participated in many exhibitions in Geneva (Switzerland), Marseille (France), Yoko Gama (Japan), Frankfort (Germany), Vancouver (Canada).

Il Post-Impressionismo

Vincent van Gogh | The starry night, 1888

Liberandosi dal naturalismo dell'Impressionismo alla fine del 1880, un gruppo di giovani pittori cercò stili artistici indipendenti per esprimere emozioni piuttosto che semplici impressioni ottiche, concentrandosi su temi di simbolismo più profondo.

Attraverso l'uso di colori semplificati e forme definitive, la loro arte era caratterizzata da un rinnovato senso estetico e da tendenze astratte.

Yovka Mechkarova, 1976 | Romantic painter

Bulgarian painter Yovka Mechkarova / Йовка Мечкарова was born in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria.

She graduated in art education for Applied Arts in the town of Troyan in 1995.

She currently resides in Veliko Ternovo (Bulgaria).