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One of the most famous paintings of all time has its home in Dresden. Like Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" in Paris or Botticelli's "Birth of the Venus" in Florence, Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" was memorized in our cultural memory."The Sistine Madonna", also called "The Madonna di San Sisto", is an oil painting by the Italian artist Raphael. The canvas was one of the last Madonnas painted by Raphael.Giorgio Vasari called it "a truly rare and extraordinary work". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RphzyY

"The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that"."Il corpo umano è prima di tutto uno specchio dell'anima e da questo deriva la sua più grande bellezza"."L'artista deve creare una scintilla prima di poter fare un fuoco e quindi nasce l'arte, l'artista deve essere pronto a consumarsi al fuoco della sua stessa creazione". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpddYD

Paul Gauguin | The Washerwomen Arles, 1888 | MoMA The washerwoman has a perpetual appeal to the senses, as Paul Gauguin mixes the oils to a texture that compliments nature with the trees in olive instead of a darker green, the soil a musty brown and the water stretching out like a giant hand to demonstrate the women’s toil.The painting is called Les Laveuses à Arles I (La Roubine du Roi), translated as Washerwomen at the Roubine du Roi Arles and currently gracing the walls at Museum of Modern Art in New York City. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpZJGp

Robert Lee Berran was born in Mt. Vernon, NY on December 24, 1923 and was raised in Scarsdale, NY. Between the ages of 19-22 he served as a medic during World War II under General Patton's third army in Europe. After the war he studied at the Art Students League in NYC from 1947-1950.After leaving the Art Students League, he painted movie posters for 20th Century Fox. Four years later he joined the Illustrators Group where artists were predominately from the Haddon Sundbloom School of Painting.His work at the Illustrators Group was for prestigious clients such as Ford and Coca-Cola. Subsequently Bob illustrated for the Seventh Day Adventists for their series of children's books "My Bible Friends" which are still popular today. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpRnX5

Born in Vienna, Gustav Feith was known as a watercolorist and graphic artist and became well-known for his pieces of flowers.Feith trained both with an apprenticeship as a lithographer with Ferdinand Pamberger (Austrian painter, 1873-1956) and also as a painting student with Josef Hasselwander (Austrian painter, 1812-1878).Feith also worked as a draftsman in the Vienna Graphic Arts Institute. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpRWQT

Friedrich von Amerling (14 April 1803 - 14 January 1887) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef.He was born in Vienna and was court painter between 1835-1880. With Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller he is one of the outstanding Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpQTDZ

Raffaello (1483-1520)🎨, nato Raffaello Sanzio, fu incoronato "Principe dei pittori" da Giorgio Vasari, un biografo di artisti del XVI secolo.Da suo padre, Raffaello imparò a dipingere; nella sua città natale, Urbino, ha vissuto la vita di corte intellettuale.Un anno dopo la morte improvvisa di suo padre, Raphael entrò nel laboratorio del principale pittore di Urbino all'età di dodici anni e superò rapidamente il suo maestro. All'età di 21 anni, Raffaello si era trasferito a Firenze, dove ha abbracciato le opere di Michelangelo e Leonardo da Vinci.A Firenze, i suoi numerosi dipinti della Madonna col Bambino mostrano il suo caratteristico calore umano, la sua serenità e figure sublimemente perfette. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpLkNM

Massimo Stanzione was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. Most of his work, in both oils and fresco (these usually for ceilings), depicted religious subjects.A papal knight, he is often referred to as Cavalliere Massimo Stanzione, especially in older sources.Born in Frattamaggiore, Naples in 1585, Massimo Stanzione was influenced by Caravaggio.What distinguished Massimo’s art from that of Caravaggio's was that he combined the latter's dramatically lit and brutally realistic style with the classical and lyrical manner of Bolognesi painters, earning him the nickname of the Napolitan Guido Reni. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpJWF7

Norman Rockwell | Christmas Card | Two sleeping children, 1952 The first recorded Christmas cards were sent by Michael Maier to James I of England and his son Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1611.The next cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on 1 May 1843.The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpFQQz

The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpF2th

Giorgio Vasari🎨, in the enlarged edition of Lives of the Artists (1568) introduced his chapter on Leonardo with the following words:"In the normal course of events many men and women are born with remarkable talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single person is marvellously endowed by Heaven with beauty, grace and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, all his actio ns seem inspired and indeed everything he does clearly comes from God rather than from human skill". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RpF2pm

Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818-1899) | Girl on the rock in Sorrento, 1871 The "Verismo" (meaning "realism", from Italian vero, meaning "true") refers to a 19th-century Italian painting🎨 style. This style was practiced most characteristically by the Macchiaioli group of painters🎨, who were forerunners of the French Impressionists.The link pin between European verismo in painting and the States could be considered to be the work of John Singer Sargent🎨, in regard to technique, but not in comments on the working classes. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rp6RnW

Arnaldo Ferraguti was an Italian painter🎨 and illustrator, often painting genre subjects🎨.He was born in Ferrara but trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Naples, then under the leadership of Domenico Morelli🎨. He befriended the painter Francesco Paolo Michetti🎨 and his circle at Francavilla al Mare. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rp67CF

Femme au miroir / Woman with a Mirror / Femme à sa toilette or Lady at her Dressing Table, is a painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger.This distilled synthetic form of Cubism exemplifies Metzinger's continued interest, in 1916, towards less surface activity, with a strong emphasis on larger, flatter, overlapping abstract planes.The manifest primacy of the underlying geometric configuration, rooted in the abstract, controls nearly every element of the composition. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rp2ccY

Charles Meynier was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros und Jacques-Louis David.Meynier was the son of a tailor.Already at a young age he was trained by Pierre-Philippe Choffard.He was a proficient student but nevertheless wished to become a painter, so his elder brother Meynier St-Phal, an actor at the Comédie-Française in Paris, paid for him to train from 1785 with François-André Vincent, who then enjoyed a considerable reputation. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rp2Jt0

Antonín Hudeček was a Czech landscape painter.After completing his primary education in Roudnice, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, with Maximilian Pirner and Václav Brožík; devoting himself mostly to figure painting.From 1891-1893, he continued his studies in Munich with Otto Seitz. He opened a workshop in Prague in 1895.Shortly after, he joined a group of painters, led by Julius Mařák, that went for plein aire painting excursions; mostly in the area around Okoř. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rp00sL

Amedée Julien Marcel-Clément - Parisian painter of landscapes, seascapes, wildlife and Parisian scenes studied at the School of Fine Art and made his début at the Paris Salon in 1903.At this time he was best known for his Parisian street scenes, which captured so vividly the era of the Belle Époque and fashionable Parisian Society.He regularly exhibited there during this whole career, as well as at the Independent Exhibition, where he exhibited many paintings.Between 1913-1914, he also presented his work in England at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and at the Royal Scottish Academy. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnzN4V

Max Nonnenbruch was a German painter from the Munich School, a group mostly known for their Neoclassicism and Symbolism scenes.From 1875, he studied for two years at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, then in 1877 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.He also attended the Fine Arts School and the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1880, the artist made several trips to Paris and Italy with his friends painters Hans Olde and Claus Meyer.Max Nonnenbruch was very involved in Munich's artistic life. He was president of the Munich Association for Artists Support and a member of the General German Art Cooperative. He was also secretary of the exhibition committee at the 1892 International Art Exhibition at the Munich Glass Palace.In the 1890s, the artist travelled several times to England and France. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnxGYG

Léon de Smet was a Flemish painter🎨 and the younger brother of painter Gustave de Smet (1877-1943), also a renowned painter.He was born in Ghent, Belgium and received his artistic training at the Royal Academy of Art.Together with his brother, he belonged to the so-called "Sint-Martens-Latem painters", a group of artists who were active around the area of the same name. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnwvDz

Bulgarian painter Lyubena Fox / Любена Фокс is born in Sofia. In 2013 she graduates from the Bulgarian National School of Fine Arts, specializing in Illustration.The same year she starts her studies with John M.Angel, moving to Florence, Italy and in 2016 graduates from the Angel Academy Florence.Right after, she has a study session with Alessandro Dari. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnhXQX

Dance is an ecstatic state that changes the dancers, igniting their passion and, one and all, placing them on fire in the flame of love.The metamorphosis of people into plants or vice versa was widely used in the mythopoetic ideas of the ancients."It is only the gods who taste of death," remarked Oscar Wilde, "Apollo has passed away, but Hyacinth, whom men say he slew, lives on. Nero and Narcissus are always with us". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnfFtn

Edward Okuń was a Polish🎨 Art Nouveau painter🎨 and freemason. He painted landscapes, portraits, designed covers and llustrated magazines, including the German magazine "Jugend". * Biography Okuń was born in 1872 to a noble family and was orphaned early. He grew up with his grandparents on the maternal side.After inheriting a large fortune, he soon began drawing lessons with great painters. In 1891 he studied at the Warsaw School of Drawing. From 1891-1893 he studied under the direction of Isidore Jablonski and Jan Matejko at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.He continued his studies in Munich and Paris. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnZyqm

Lydia Velasco was born in the town of Navotas, Philippines. Velasco’s love for the arts is an innate calling she traces back to her childhood.She pursued Fine Arts major in advertising at University of Santo Tomas and then worked for many years as an artist for an advertising agency wherein her art directors turned out to be H.R. Ocampo and Cesar Legazpi, who are both national artists now.Velasco is regarded as one of the top women artists in the Philippines today. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnZhM8

Johann Jakob Frey, a Swiss landscape painter, a native of Basle, studied principally in Italy, and his views of that country are much valued.He was first taught by his father, the painter and lithographer Samuel Frey (1785-1836). He later studied in Paris (1830) and in Munich (1834), the most vibrant artistic centre in Germany.After travelling in Italy and Egypt, he settled in Rome where he specialised in landscape painting.From Egypt, whither he accompanied Professor Lepsius, he brought many excellent sketches of the Pyramids, Labyrinths, ecc. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnWr8D

Bertha Wegmann was the first Woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Wegmann was a Danish🎨 portrait painter of German ancestry. At the age of five, her family moved to Copenhagen, where her father became a merchant. He was an art lover and spent much of his spare time painting.She showed an interest in drawing at an early age, but received no formal education until she was nineteen, when she began taking lessons from Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, Heinrich Buntzen and Frederik Christian Lund. Two years later, with the support of her parents, she moved to Munich and lived there until 1881. At first, she studied with the historical painter Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger, later with the genre painter Eduard Kurzbauer, but she was not satisfied with learning in a studio atmosphere and decided to study directly from nature.She made friends with the Swedish painter, Jeanna Bauck, and took several study trips to Italy with her.In 1881, they moved to Paris where We...

Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky / Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский was a Russian painter, art collector and teacher.Makovsky was the son of collector, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, who was one of the founders of the Moscow Art School. Vladimir had two brothers, Nikolay Makovsky and Konstantin Makovsky, and one sister, Alexandra Makovsky, all of whom were famous painters.Vladimir studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnPn9Q

Joe Anna Arnett is a master artist on “Passport and Palette” the art instruction and travel series airing on PBS stations across the country. Joe Anna Arnett earned a BFA degree from the University of Texas.She then worked for Young and Rubicam Advertising in New York as a senior art director working on such accounts as Merrill Lynch and the US Postal ServiceShe continued her studies in fine art at the Art Students League of New York for several years.She not only appears on the show, but also produces and writes for the program. In 1997, she became a Master Artist of the Artists in America Show at the Denver Historical Society Museum. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnNwLH

Cohen Fusé born in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Studied Ceramics at the School of Fine Arts - Mar del Plata (Argentina). Graduated in Architecture at the Buenos Aires State University.Studied engraving and lithography at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.In 1988 he signed a contract with the Vorpal Gallery of New York. Participates in exhibitions in the USA: New York and San Francisco, and also in Canada.. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnKtm6

Petite bonne flamande dite 'La Rosa' / Little Flemish Girl Called Rosa is one of a small group of paintings that Camille Pissarro painted in 1896, which depict a young Flemish girl, Rosa, who was at the time the Pissarro family’s housemaid.‘I’m doing a few figure paintings based on la Rosa’ (letter from Pissarro to L. Pissarro, in J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. III, Paris, 2005, p. 694), Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien on 4 December 1895 from Paris. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RnFmxF

Parmigianino is an acclaimed painter of the Italian Mannerists, who also worked in printmaking and Alchemy later in life.Born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, he retained his artistic name from his birthplace of Parma, Italy. Taken under the care of his uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario, he learned painting from them at a young age. Parmigianino collaborated with them and even completed commissions his uncles did not fulfill later in life.In just his early twenties, Parmigianino had already executed frescos in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rn6xRG

Rudolf Ernst was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs. He exhibited in Paris under the name "Rodolphe Ernst".He was the son of the architect Leopold Ernst and, encouraged by his father, began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the age of fifteen.He spent some time in Rome, copying the old masters, and continued his lessons in Vienna with August Eisenmenger and Anselm Feuerbach. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rn45WP

Wilfredo Alicdan - born in Dasmariñas, Cavite - is a Filipino figurative artist.His works are distinguished by their quaint and geometric folk representations, populated by rounded stylized figures usually engaged in traditional and rural activities Alicdan graduated elementary school in 1978 from Francisco E. Barzaga Memorial School in Dasmariñas.He graduated high school from Immaculate Conception Academy in 1982 with a gold medal for "Artist of the Year" award. He studied fine arts in the Philippine Women's University from 1983-1986. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rn1dfV

Талантбек Чекиров was born in the Kyrgyz Republic. He studied from the State College of Art from 1986-1990. In this period, Chekirov acquired detailed knowledge in the fields of plastic anatomy, graphics and composition, which highlights his work as an artisan.In 1990, Chekirov completed his education in the domain of the creative arts with majors in theatrical painting and constructive art. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rn1JTQ

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes KCVO RA was a British painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes. Illustrator At the age of 17, Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to the South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank Holl.All three men became influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the social realist movement in Britain. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmxgSV

Karol (Karl) Dominik Witkowski was a Polish🎨-American🎨 portraitist and genre painter🎨, better known in the USA as Karl Witkowski. He painted scenes of contemporary daily life in America.Karol Dominik Witkowski was born to a Polish family in Jazłowiec (Jaslowiec), near Buchach, Czortków (Podole, Poland, now Ukraine).As young boy he showed unusual talent in making drawings and his parents sent him to school in Chortkiv (12 miles from Yazlovets). ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rmswxr

Didier Lourenço was born in Premià de Mar, Barcelona. At the age of 19 he began working in the lithography atelier of his father, where he learned the trade of lithography.In 1988 Didier made a corner of the atelier his place for painting on canvas and paper. He shared his time between painting and printing lithographs for himself and professional artists.The atelier would prove to be his best classroom, a place where Didier would build his education in the world of painting. That year he presented his first individual show and also edited his first collection of lithographies. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmpYZ3

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) - Russian artist🎨 of Ukrainian background who was the foremost portraitist of the sentimentalist era and a master of ecclesiastic painting.Borovikovsky lived in Ukraine until he was 31 years old, having learned the trade of painting from his father, a Cossack and a minor member of the nobility who worked as an icon painter. Only a few of his father’s icons and portraits are extant. Though deeply sincere, they are slightly rough in execution. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmgBG5

Amy Werntz is a contemporary realist artist currently residing in Dallas, Texas. Originally from the midwest, Amy’s appreciation and interest in art developed as a child, in a family full of talented artists.She has always been drawn to faces and the human figure.Through the years her inspiration has evolved to now focus on those around her.She is fascinated by the postures and expressions of people within their everyday lives.Amy got her BFA in Interior Design and currently splits her time between design and creating art. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmblkT

The intention and determination that inform Van Gogh's🎨 art can be obscured by the sensational legends that have arisen about his life. The artist's correspondence, particularly frdeom his brief mature period of 1888-1890, contradicts popular lore and attests to the deliberateness, sensitivity, and integrity of his work.On July 29, 1888, Van Gogh wrote his younger brother Theo, an art dealer in a Parisian gallery, that "if you know what a 'mousmé' is (you will know when you have read Loti's Madame Chrysanthème), I have just painted one. It took me a whole week...but I had to reserve my mental energy to do the mousmé well". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmR3Vv

Ukrainian painter Shafira Yablonski was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk. When Shafira was 3 years old the world war II began and her family was evacuated to Kazakhstan. When the war was over and the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk was liberated, they returned home to Ukraine. There Shafira spent her childhood and adolescence and finished high school. All her childhood she was fond of drawing. When Shafira was 15, she joined the art studio at the House of Culture and began learning to paint. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmMcQP

An excellent painter and draughtsman, Ludovic Alleaume worked in an academic style that owed little to the more avant-garde trends in contemporary French art🎨.He exhibited regularly at the Salon🎨 des Artistes Français between 1883-1938, winning several prizes🎨 including a second prize in the category of lithography in 1896 and a second class medal for painting in 1905.Alleaume also exhibited at the Salon des Humoristes and the Salon d'Hiver and, outside of Paris, took part in exhibitions in Angers, Nantes, Nice, Rouen and Toulouse, as well as London.Born in Angers, France, Alleaume studied with Hérbert and Luc-Oliver Merson at l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmGbsl

"Hi, i’m Tullius Heuer and i live in a city called Maceió, located at the state of Alagoas, Brazil.I’m a self-taught digital artist. I’m actually working with freelance works for living, including stuff like CD covers, posters, book covers, logos/branding/visual identity, advertisement etc. This website has focus on personal projects and major commissioned pieces.My personal artworks consist in my thoughts and feelings about life and existence. I don’t have a specific theme to focus in my works, but most of them usually have strong emotional touches with positive messages.My working tools/softwares are: Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Daz Studio, Wacom Intuos 5 Small.Although my experience with digital arts is self-taught, i have a degree in I.T field". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmG0xK

Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) was a French🎨 oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Époque.He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. He was also the father of Jean Helleu and the grandfather of Jacques Helleu, both artistic directors for Parfums Chanel.His work epitomises the charm and elegance of French culture at the time - the Belle Époque - with all its verve and focus on fashion. Helleu immortalised many beautiful women in paint and graphite because he became the darling of fashionable, aristocratic ladies at the time, including Coco Chanel🎨. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RmCzwN

Cartoonist and illustrator Alireza Karimi Moghaddam was born in Tehran, Iran. He earned a master’s degree in graphic art at Azad University in Iran, and is now based in Lisbon, working with art faculty of the University of Lisbon and the National Society of Fine Arts.Since his teenage years he has immersed himself in the life and art of Vincent van Gogh🎨.For the past thirty years his award-winning🎨 cartoons and illustrations have conveyed van Gogh’s life as "a symbol of beauty and love, an inspiration for the future". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RlzBpG

"American artist🎨 originally from Dallas Texas, I now live and work in Dublin. I spent two years in Florence, Italy where I completed the drawing program at the Angel Academy of Art. I am mainly self-taught when it comes to painting, and I primarily focus on still-life subject matter. I eventually plan to incorporate the human figure in my paintings. My influences range from the classic illustrators, to the Pre-Ralphelites and the great 19th century artists (Mucha, Waterhouse, Whistler, N.C.Wyeth and Chardin)". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RlyGBR

Japanese artist🎨 Toshiyuki Enoki was born in Tokyo. Educated in several different genres of Lacquer painting, traditional Japanese painting and western painting, Toshiyuki Enoki's works are an amalgamation of the new and aged, reality and myth.This artist strives to antiquate his works, not only in his thematic tribute to well known traditional artists such as Maruyama Oukyou also in his artist process. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RlyG5r

Аркадий Острицкий was born in Kishinev, Moldova. He was recognized very early as gifted in drawing and painting and by the age of 20 was accepted in Moldova's most distinguished Art Academy - the Repin Art Academy.He graduated with distinction, earned many awards, and became one of his country's most important painters.He was chosen to paint numerous monumental works in public institutions, and created many large frescos. He also became a distinguished art teacher and many young artists came under his tutelage. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rllj7V

Barney Seale | A head of Niccolo Paganini, 1782-1840 ▻ "The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master". ▻ "Paganini non ripete!"▻ "Paganini does not repeat!" ▻ "My secret, if I can call it secret, will indicate the violinists the way to penetrate the instrument much better than what has been done until now and it can demonstrate them, that violin is much more full of opportunities than what is commonly believed.This discovery is not due to chance, but it is due to a deep study and applying it will no longer be necessary to practice four or five hours a day, it will remove the current scholar method, which studies to make the instrument difficult instead of teaching it". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RlZDX6

Meredith Marsone's (formerly Collins) paintings and drawings explore questions of heritage and identity.At times there is a tension in her works that reference her Pakeha and Māori heritage, ta moko or floral designs delicately adorn faces of her subjects. Heritage as well as the continuity of one's lineage are depicted in Meredith's works which often feature her with her daughters.Crystal Ardern, curator Waikato Museum, describes Meredith's work as "Striking, captivating, and beautiful paintings - yet hinting at something more, something uneasy even. She has explored intimate, sometimes painful issues through paint and canvas, but she has been able to veil her work enough so that she is not completely exposed". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RlQqPF

Daniel Maclise was born to a family of Scottish descent. After a brief period working in a bank, Maclise’s passion for drawing led him to pursue a career in art which he studied at the Cork Society of Arts.His lifelong interest in antiquities began through his acquaintance with the antiquarian Richard Sainthill and folklorist Thomas Crofton Croker.Maclise copied from their collections, and they secured commissions for the young artist from their circle of wealthy and influential friends. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RlK3Pp