Ettore Tito (Italian painter, 1859-1941)

Ettore Tito🎨 was born in Castellammare di Stabia (near Naples) on 17 December 1859 to Ubaldo Tito, a merchant marine captain and Luigia Novello Tito.

His mother was Venetian, and when he was a small boy the family returned to Venice where he was to live for the rest of his life.

He began his art studies at an early age, first with the Dutch artist Cecil Van Haanen, who was to become a lifelong friend, and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti where he had been accepted at the age of 12 before he had even reached the legal age for admission.

Dosso Dossi | Pittore del Rinascimento

Dosso Dossi, pseudonimo di Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri (San Giovanni del Dosso oppure Tramuschio, 1486 circa – Ferrara, 1542) fu uno dei maggiori pittori del Rinascimento a Ferrara, ed è noto per il suo stile enigmatico ed allegorico.

Il suo nome di battesimo era Giovanni di Niccolò Luteri, e nacque a Tramuschio.

Suo padre lavorava come tesoriere per le terre della famiglia estense, presso la loro corte di Ferrara.

Successivamente, gli Este furono mecenati di Dossi.

Sinisha Kashawelski, 1969 | Surrealist painter

Born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia, Sinisha Kashawelski / Синиша Кашавелски graduated the College of Applied Arts in Skopje, North Macedonia and also the same university's Faculty of Fine Arts.

He is a member of DLUM (National Artists Association of North Macedonia), Société des Artistes Français, Société Du Salon D’automne - Paris, member and Ambassador at Mondial Art Academia and the author of many solo projects and exhibitions.

Renoir | Landscapes with Figures

"If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree.

No two leaves are exactly the same.

The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself"

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Caspar David Friedrich (German painter, 1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was one of the greatest exponents in European art of the symbolic🎨 landscape.

He studied at the Academy in Copenhagen (1794-98), and subsequently settled in Dresden, often traveling to other parts of Germany.

Friedrich's landscapes are based entirely on those of northern Germany and are beautiful renderings of trees, hills, harbors, morning mists, and other light effects based on a close observation of nature.

Some of Friedrich's best-known paintings are expressions of a religious mysticism.

Ivan Kramskoj | Pittore Orientalista

Ivan Nikolaevič Kramskoj (Ostrogožsk, 8 giugno 1837 - San Pietroburgo, 6 aprile 1887) è stato un pittore e critico d'arte Russo, inoltre è stato il leader intellettuale dei Peredvižniki tra il 1860-1880.

Originario da una povera famiglia piccolo borghese, dal 1857-1863 studiò all'Accademia Imperiale d'Arte, in seguito si oppose all'arte accademica e fu uno degli iniziatori della rivolta dei quattordici che finì con l'espulsione dall'accademia, a causa di ciò crearono il gruppo dell'Artel dei pittori ("Артель художников").

Yarek Godfrey (Polish, 1957-2014)

Born in Olsztyn, Poland, Yarek Godfrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins.

In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Studies for Stage Costume design for theater in Cracow.

In 1983 he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death in 2014.

Godfrey received numerous awards for his work (among others, the Gold Medal of the XXXVIII Salon of Young Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987; Grand Prix of the XXVI International Art Salon Côte d’Azur, Cannes, 1990).

He presented his work at numerous group and individual exhibitions, primarily in the United States and France, but also in Belgium, Monaco or Italy. He died tragically on March 28th, 2014.