Classical paintings

Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance. The stories told by works of art are the stuff of novels. Here are a few of the stories behind famous masterpieces.

Art Gallery on Instagram: “The Lunatic of Étretat, 1871 by Hugues Merle (1822-1881) O Lunático de Étretat, 1871 de Hugues Merle…”

Painting of an extremely surprised man, styled after Caravaggio's old master Baroque oil paintings.

Artist Angel Ramiro Sanchez Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1974 Angel Ramiro Sanchez Angel Ramiro Sanchez at age six Ramiro was accepted with full scholarship into the Ninos Cantores School for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon Jose Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and publics buildings. In 1993 a study grant from Msgr Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder of the Ninos Cantores, enable him to travel to…

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Antonietta Brandeis - Marco Gozzi - Carlo Bossoli - Giovanni Grubas - Carlo Grubas - Jacques François Carabain - Carlo Grubas

“❝He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked. How he hated it; desperately he had tried to keep it burning.❞ ──𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, These Violent Delights.”