Italian painters

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter of the Verismo style. This romantic painting shows what the excavation of Pompeii in the 19th century may have...

Eugène de Blaas (Italian painter) 1843 - 1932 Woman with a Basket of Fruit, 1897 oil on panel 79.5 x 39.5 cm. (31.25 x 15.5 in.) signed and dated Eugen von Blaas 1897

Felice Castorati - Seated Woman With Guitar (1938)

Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (Venice, 1834 -1912 ) was an Italian painter, mainly of Venetian genre scenes, recalling Bamboccianti life of children and wo

Flanked by theologians and girded with personal faith, these artists worked to spark imaginations and deepen adoration for the Eucharist in their empirical times.

Judith and Holofernes

Obsessed with the sublime Raphael, one of the greatest High Renaissance painters? So is much of society, judging from the recent hype over the 500th anniversary of his death. In this Raphael guide, I take you on a tour of Raphael's life and his 25 most important paintings. Raphael was one of the "holy trinity" of Renaissance painters, along with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. He burst on the scene in the early 1500s and became the most famous painter in Rome, and hence in Europe.