Letter, Diaries

Adam Elsheimer was born in Germany, Frankfurt am Main, one of ten children, in a family of master-tailor. Artist Philipp Uffenbach apprenticed him. He probably visited Strasbourg in 1596. Twenty year …

His work did not belong to either the Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. The historical painting that Paris Salon appreciated as the artist’s highest calling did not interest him. Instead, he claimed …

Yosa Buson was a Japanese poet of haikai and an Edo period artist. Together with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, he is considered one of the greatest poets and artists of the Edo period in Japanese …

The artist Federica Scoppa, with the e-book ‘Visions’, gives us an insight into her work, her Vision of the world and the way of creating art by a woman. Nature is the main source of inspiration for …

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1653) is supposed the most important Italian painter of her time of the Baroque. She was mainly predisposed in her premature paintings by her father, Orazio Gentileschi …

Bernard van Orley is one of the leading artists of the Flemish Renaissance. Characteristic of his work, which consists of painting, tapestry and stained glass, was the strong influence of the Italian …

Alexander Adriaenssen is a Flemish artist specializing in a painting of still-lifes paintings. He was born and lived in Antwerp where he received his initial training for an artist. He studied the ar …

Peter Candid was born in Bruges in a family of a Flemish tapestry artist. His father moved to live and worked in Florence, Italy, when Little Peter was 10, so the artist’s entire career was outside h …

Amedeo Modigliani is most famous for his portrait’s paintings as well as his and drawings of female nudes in one contemporary for the time manner distinguished by elongation of human heads and bodies …

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo is the descendant of the famous and prominent family of Italian artists Tiepolo: his father was the artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and his brother was Lorenzo Baldissera …