Edouard Manet Edouard Manet (born in Paris on January 23, 1832 - died in Paris on April 30, 1883) is a major French painter of the late nineteenth century. Forerunner of the modern painting he freed from academicism, Edouard Manet is wrongly considered as one of the fathers of Impressionism new techniques of color and the particular treatment of light. It nevertheless approaches some recurring themes such as portraits, seascapes, Parisian life or even still lifes, while painting in a personal way, in a first period, scenes of genre.Refusing to study law and failing to become a naval officer, the young Edouard Manet entered the workshop of the painter Thomas Couture in 1850 where he began his training as a painter, but he left it in 1856. As early as 1860 , He presents his first paintings. His following paintings, Lola de Valencia, Bullfighting, Lunch on the Grass or Olympia, make scandal. Manet is rejected from the official exhibitions, and plays a leading ro...

Francisco de Goya Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, known as Francisco de Goya, born on March 30, 1746 in Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, and died April 16, 1828 in Bordeaux, France, is a Spanish painter and engraver.  His work includes easel paintings, murals, engravings and drawings. He introduced several stylistic ruptures that initiated romanticism and announced the beginning of contemporary painting. Goyesque art is considered as a forerunner of the pictorial avant-gardes of the twentieth century. After a slow apprenticeship in his native land, bathed in late baroque style and pious images, he traveled to Italy in 1770, where he came into contact with the neo-classicism he adopted when he moved to Madrid Mid-decade, in parallel with a Rococo style related to his job as a tapestry designer for the Royal Manufactory of Santa Barbara.  His teaching, both in these activities and as a painter of the Chamber, was assured by Raphael Mengs, while the m...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is an Italian painter born on 29 September 1571 in Milan and died on 18 July 1610 in Porto Ercole.His powerful and innovative work revolutionized the paintings of the seventeenth century by his naturalistic character, his sometimes brutal realism, and the strong use of the technique of chiaroscuro, which went as far as darkness.  He knew fame during his lifetime and influenced many great painters after him, as evidenced by the appearance of caravaggism.In fact, he achieved great success in the early 1600: working in an environment of cultivated protectors, he obtained prestigious commissions and collectors of very high rank sought his paintings. But then Caravaggio entered a difficult period.  In 1606, after numerous disputes with the justice of the Papal States, he mortally wounded an opponent in a duel. He then left Rome and spent the rest of his life in exile, in Naples, Malta and Si...