Hans HEYERDAHL (Norwegian, 1857-1913) ✿

Hans Heyerdahl (1857 - 1913) was a Norwegian Realist painter. His work was characterized by naturalism and focused largely on portraits and landscape paintings.

Estasi di Catherine La Rose

Vibra, vibra
nell'estasi l'abbandono
mentre sconfino i sensi
e l'etereo divino m'investe
Sei già dentro me..
lo sento, lo sento
anche adesso lo sento
cavalcante come
un ansimante respiro
risalire lo spirito
ed aleggiare il cielo...

~ Catherine La Rose©~
Maria Maddalena nella grotta di Hugues Merle e Maria Maddalena in estasi di Caravaggio

Maximilian PIRNER ✿

Maximilian Pirner (Sušice, 13 February 1853 – Prague, 2 April 1924) was a Czech painter, illustrator and draftsman of the period of academicism and symbolism, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His works fall within the scope of Symbolist painting and Art Nouveau.

John William WATERHOUSE ✿

John William Waterhouse RA (Rome, 6 April 1849 – London, 10 February 1917) was a English painter belonging to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He is considered a "modern Pre-Raphaelite" , as his works date back to a few decades after the dissolution of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.

Adolphe WEISZ ✿

Adolphe Weisz (Budapest, 17 July 1838 - Paris, 25 December 1916) was a Hungarian/French painter. His father is a theater actor in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He moved to France in 1865, obtaining French nationality.

Diana KOROBKINA, 1980 ✿

Diana Korobkina/ Диана Коробкина is a Russian painter, was born in 1980 in the city of Bryansk. From 1995 to 2000 she studied at the Bryansk Art School in the painting department. During her studies at the school, she was awarded a 1st degree diploma for participation in an exhibition of the best student works.

Morgan WEISTLING, 1964 ✿

Morgan Weistling (California, 1964) is an American painter raised in Southern California.  Known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings and American pioneer life. Morgan Weistling began his art career as a movie-poster illustrator.

Camille COROT ✿

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (16 luglio 1796 – 22 febbraio 1875), è stato un paesaggista e ritrattista francese, nonché un incisore di incisioni. Figura fondamentale nella pittura di paesaggio, la sua vasta produzione faceva contemporaneamente riferimento alla tradizione neoclassica e anticipava le innovazioni plein-air dell'impressionismo.

Alice Ruggles SOHIER - American Impressionist ✿

Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880–1969) was an American impressionist artist born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Alice is known for paintings of figures, portraits, still life, and landscapes.

Heinrich SCHLIMARSKI ✿

Heinrich Hans Schlimarski (Olomouc, 1859 - Hainburg, 1913) was a Czech portrait, genre and history painter and pastellist.

Love gives naught but itself/ L’amore non dà nulla fuorché se stesso ~ Khalil GIBRAN

“L’amore non dà nulla fuorché se stesso
e non coglie nulla se non da se stesso.
L’amore non possiede,
né vorrebbe essere posseduto
poiché l’amore basta all’amore”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Josef LIECK ✿

Joseph Lieck (Aachen, 1849 - Berlin, 1904) was a German artist.  He was a Prussian, and a graduate of the Berlin Academy, and has been especially successful in his delineation of the softer and more tender types of feminine beauty. Joseph Lieck is known for Female portrait, figure painting.

Catherine La Rose ~ Lontano dal cuore

Mi porto l'Amore
un po' più lontano
da questa pelle

Jean Baptiste Camille COROT ✿

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

Vince GIARRANO, 1960 ✿

Vincent Giarrano (Buffalo - New York, 17 November 1960), also known as Vince Giarrano, is an American realist painter and former comic book artist. He took an early interest in drawing and by the time he was 12, decided to pursue a career as an artist.

Catherine La Rose ~ Fammi tacere

Rimani immobile, in silenzio
come pietra d'assenzio
dammi il tuo oblio
tua assenza
tuo nudo lascito
la tua libertà
e dimenticati...

KRAMSKOY ✿

Ivan Nikolaevič Kramskoj or Kramskoy (Ostrogožsk, 8 June 1837 – Saint Petersburg, 6 April 1887) was a Russian painter and art critic, he was also the intellectual leader of the Peredvižniki between 1860 and 1880.

Joseph Désiré COURT ✿

Joseph-Désiré Court (14 September 1797, Rouen – 23 January 1865, Paris) was a French portrait painter of historical subjects. He was a descendant of the portrait painter, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and displayed an early interest in art. His first studies were with Marc-Antoine Descamps, at a drawing school established by Descamps' father, Jean-Baptiste. Following that, he worked at the studios of Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris.

Lee Lufkin KAULA ✿

Lee Lufkin Kaula (23 December 1865 – 1 August 1957) was an American artist born in Erie, Pennsylvania. A painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes throughout her career, she first trained in New York with Charles Melville Dewey, the American tonalist painter who had studied in Paris and worked with Carolus-Duran on a ceiling painting at the Louvre.

Alberto PANCORBO, 1956 ✿

Alberto Pancorbo is a spanish Fantastic Realistic painter born in the city of Soria, Spain in 1956 Pancorbo begins to paint from a very early age in his native city. At the age of 18 he transferred to the city of Barcelona with the ultimate goal to dedicate himself only to painting. In 1980 he became an exclusive artist of Sala Gaudi in Barcelona, which exposed his paintings for the first time in the international fair of art of Basel, Switzerland. He began a period of exhibitions in different cities of Spain and overseas.