Queen María Isabel of Braganza | Founder of the Museum del Prado

María Isabel of Braganza was born in Lisbon on 19 May 1797, daughter of John VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina of Spain.

She became queen of Spain when she married her uncle, Ferdinand VII, on 28 September 1816 and became his second wife.

She died during childbirth in Aranjuez on 26 December 1818.

It must be noted that this is a posthumous portrait.

The artist was the son of Vicente López and his most faithful disciple.

Bernardo López Piquer (1801-1874) | Maria Isabel of Portugal in front of the Prado in 1829 | Museo del Prado

Tanya Chuvasheva, 1977 | Figurative painter

Born in Moscow, Татьяна Чувашева graduated from the Moscow Art Lyceum and the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow (faculte of monumental painting, studio under the guidance of professor E. N. Maksimov).

Member of the International Federation of Artists and National Artist's Union of Russia.

Refinement of colour with simple, but finely constructed composition of a canvas is a characteristic feature of T. Chuvasheva's art.

Madre Teresa di Calcutta: Ci sono persone che hanno un compagno..

Ci sono persone che hanno un compagno, ma che si sentono talmente sole e vuote che è come se non lo avessero.

Altre, invece, pur di non aspettare, decidono di camminare accanto alla persona sbagliata e, nel loro egoismo, non permettono a quella persona di allontanarsi, anche se sanno che non la rendono felice.

Ci sono persone che portano avanti matrimoni o fidanzamenti ormai distrutti, perché credono che stare da soli sia difficile ed inaccettabile.

Ci sono persone che decidono di occupare il secondo posto cercando di arrivare al primo, ma quel viaggio è difficile, scomodo e ci riempie di dolore e di abbandono.

Aron Wiesenfeld | Lost Track

Jean Charles Cazin | Tonalist painter

Jean-Charles Cazin (1840-1901) was a French landscapist, museum curator and ceramicist.

The son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788-1864), he was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais.

After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement.

His chief earlier pictures have a religious interest, shown in such examples as The Flight into Egypt (1877), or Hagar and Ishmael (1880, Luxembourg); and afterwards his combination of luminous landscape with figure-subjects (Souvenir de fête, 1881; Journée faite, 1888) gave him a wide repute, and made him the leader of a new school of idealistic subject-painting in France.

Marcus Stone | Victorian Romantic painter

Marcus Stone RA (4 July 1840 - 24 March 1921) was an English painter.

Stone was born in London, and was educated at the Royal Academy.

Marcus Clayton Stone was the son of Frank Stone ARA. Marcus was trained by his father and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, before he was eighteen.

A few years later he illustrated, with much success, books by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and other writers who were friends of his family.

Amy Sherald, 1973 | Magic Realism painter

Amy Sherald is an American painter.

She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings.

Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects.

Since 2012, her work has used grisaille to portray skin tones, a choice she describes as intended to challenge conventions about skin color and race.

Jorge Luis Borges | I giusti / The just

Un uomo che coltiva il suo giardino, come voleva Voltaire.

Chi è contento che sulla terra esista la musica.

Chi scopre con piacere un’etimologia.

Due impiegati che in un caffè del Sud giocano in silenzio agli scacchi.

Vincent van Gogh | Sower at Sunset