PAINTERS

LEONORA CARRINGTON 1/4 – A woman who dies and is born in springtime, experiencing and creating – for almost seventy years – in Mexico. She was born into a wealthy family and moved to France, very young, fitting in the movement of the surrealist painters, where he met Max Ernst, her love, the man who was arrested by the Germans, …

AMBROGIO LORENZETTI 1/4 – He is one of the masters of the fourteenth century Sienese school, a painter who has remained famous for the strong allegorical component of his work. Observing what he paints, you can admire the humanity of the subjects represented. He died in 1348, the plague that decimated the population of Europe. In his will, he has …

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA 1/4 – Of the man (which is certainly not the year of birth), born in the small Italian town of Sansepolcro, and died in the year in which America was discovered, we know relatively little. He began to paint banners and flags for his city, but also altarpieces, portraits and murals (partially lost). Professionally, he grew up …

LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA 1/4 – Dutch born and die English, this is the geographic frame of a painter from the Victorian era. He entered the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium, becaming assistant to the painter and professor Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history. Inside its Merovingian themes you can observe the artist moving by the deepest feeling and the …

JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS 1/4 – He was a student of his father Frederick Christian (a landscape painter), and to the age of 15 he sold his first painting (a work that represented the animals). This English, who paints in the nineteenth century (during the Romantic period), is known for his paintings oriental, exotic scenes with a Mediterranean flavor, a sea …