Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1848-1921) Fog in Italy 1907
On a typical day at the Capitoline Museum in Rome, a visitor might expect to see classical nude statues like this: A picture taken on Tuesday shows a visitor walking past an ancient Roman marble statue at Rome's Capitoline Museum. F But this was the scene before Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and visiting Iranian President Hassan ...
Clarence Gagnon (1881-1942) Village Street, Bair-Saint-Paul Clarence Gagnon was a Canadian painter from the province of Quebec. Born near Montreal, he studied at the Art Association of Montreal in 1897. Early in life, his mother had encouraged him to learn drawing and painting, but his father wanted him to become a businessman. Desiring to improve his knowledge about art, he went to the Académie Julian in Paris, and studied under Jean-Paul Laurens ...
Ernst Kreidolf (Swiss, 1863–1956 Morgenidyll 1893 Konrad Ernst Theophil Kreidolf was born on February 9th 1863 in Berne Switzerland, the second eldest child of the Kreidolf family. His brothers and sisters were Marie Hermine (1861), Emma (1866), Albert (1868), Otto (1871), Clara (1873) and Frieda (1876). In 1868 the family moved to Constance in Germany, where his father opened a toyshop. However, Kreidolf grew up with his ...