Charles Napier Kennedy was distinguished by his mythological painting.

"He enjoyed observing peasants’ behavior and studied how they drank, ate, danced, fought, and even made love."

He was a Knight of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium, Honorary Professor of the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, and Honorary Academician of the Institute of Fine Arts of Bologna and other Academies.

In 1931 the Egyptian government chose Dante Ricci to found the Royal Egyptian Academy in Rome

An exceptional personality and absolutely in advance of the Roman and Italian culture of the time, characterised by a bewildered expressionism, as electric in colour as in darting sign...

Della Robbia ceramics

It was the first time I had ardently endeavoured to study from life harmonising the light and the colour of the background with the figure.

A short biography of the artist Dusan Dzamonja (Strumica 1928- Zagreb 2009) one of the most important conceptual artists in the world.

She felt as if dazzled by the gilded sumptuousness of the environment, whereby the works of this period appear as the fruits of a state of almost somnambulic intoxication (Savinio)

The beautiful story of a great artist who managed to make his art loved in many parts of the world without ever setting foot outside his beloved Venice.

Biography of the artist Edoardo Dalbono great Italian painter of the 19th century

A great painter and sculptor, together with her husband Carlo D'Aloisio da Vasto, formed one of the most important artistic combinations of the Italian avant-garde movements of the 20th century.