Alexander Tolstoy (1895-1969)

Alexander Tolstoy, born in Saint Petersburg, was a Russian-Swedish count and painter, graphic artist, illustrator, master of still life and a female portrait, active in Dalarna, Sweden.

Tolstoy was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and then studied in several countries.

His art consists of figure studies and women in national costumes done in oil.

Vladislav Nagornov, 1974

Born in the old town of Penza, Владислав Нагорнов began to paint at the age of six.

At sixteen he joined the Savitsky Academy in Penza with the painter German Jakov.

In 2001 he graduated at the Ilya Glazounov Academy of Fine Arts.

His specialisation in historical subjects requires a strong discipline to recreate the characters, costumes, decoration details and narrative subjects.

He has followed the influence of artists like Ilya Repin, Sourikov and Ivanov among others.

Oscar Ghiglia | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Born and raised in Livorno, Italian painter Oscar Ghiglia (1876-1945) chose Florence to pursue his artistic ambitions.

Ghiglia was initially trained by his father, who was also a painter, before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

He was particularly influenced by the teachings of Giovanni Fattori while also open to innovations from across the Alps, in particular to the oeuvre of Cézanne and from as well as Swiss and German artists such as Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach.

Luigi Busi | Genre painter

Luigi Busi (1837-1884) was an Italian painter, born in Bologna.

Busi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, though by 1868, he is documented to be in Milan.

He was named academic professor at the Bolognese Academy in 1871.

In 1876, he was named Honorary Associate of the Brera Academy.

His early training was in an environment characterized by Realist depictions.

Edmond Bénard | Vincent van Gogh at the age of 34

This group photograph of the INHA fund - Institut national d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, represent Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and the Nabis group on February 8, 1888 at the Académie Julian, 48 rue de Faubourg saint Denis, Paris.

Digitized by the library in 2010, published on the Digital Library in 2013 then posted on the Arago portal, this photograph appeared the same year in "Portraits d'ateliers: un album de photographs fin de siècle".

It is part of an album of photographs of artists' studios, purchased in 1958 at the Fabius gallery.

Edmond Bénard | Vincent van Gogh at the Académie Julian, 1888 | Institut national d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris (INHA)

Konstantinos Kavàfis | Per quanto sta in te / As much as you can

E se non puoi la vita che desideri

cerca almeno questo

per quanto sta in te: non sciuparla

nel troppo commercio con la gente

con troppe parole in un viavai frenetico.

Marc Chagall | Over the Town, 1918 | Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Ghiannis Ritsos | Il tuo corpo sulla spiaggia..

II tuo corpo sulla spiaggia sabbiosa

la sabbia attaccata alla tua carne

la sabbia sulle mie mani

sulla mia lingua

perch’io ti scopra

Vladimir Volegov