Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.
Ginevra Cantofoli (1618–1672) was an Italian painter. She was active in Bologna during the Baroque period.
Isabella in Black is a portrait of a young woman by Titian. It can be dated to the 1530s and is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The artist and the date are undisputed. Beyond the museum documentation, there are repeated doubts about the person depicted.
Francesco Podesti was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style. Together with Francesco Hayez and Giuseppe Bezzuoli, he is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the first half of the 19th century. He was prolific in his large canvases on historical subjects. He is best known for his fresco work, including those in the Hall of the Immacolata in the Vatican Museum.
Ludovico Stern was an Italian painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period, active in Rome. He is known for both large sacred and history paintings, as well as still lives, and portraits.
Franca Florio, regina di Palermo is a full-length narrative ballet in two acts, with music by Lorenzo Ferrero and scenario, choreography and staging by Luciano Cannito. A commission by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the work premiered there on 22 November 2007 with Carla Fracci in the title role, and was restaged in June 2010.
Giuseppe Veneziano is an Italian painter and one of the leading figures of Italian art groups "New Pop" and "Italian Newbrow".
William Girometti was an Italian painter of Surrealist influence.
Michele Catti was an Italian artist, considered one of the most important Sicilian landscape painters of the Belle Époque.
Franca Florio, born Francesca Paola Jacona della Motta dei baroni di San Giuliano and commonly called Donna Franca, was an Italian noblewoman, socialite and a prominent protagonist of the Belle Époque. Descendant of a Sicilian noble family, she married the entrepreneur Ignazio Florio Jr., member of the wealthy Florio family. She was nicknamed "Queen of Palermo".
Ignazio Florio Jr. was an Italian entrepreneur, heir of the rich Florio economic dynasty, one of the wealthiest Italian families during the late 19th century.
Tiziano Panconi is an Italian art historian, specializing in Italian painting of the eighteenth century, in particular of Macchiaioli and Giovanni Boldini
Geronimo Gerardi (1595-1648) was a Flemish artist active in Italy. He was born Guilliam Walsgart or Hyeronimus Gerards.
Penitent Magdalene is a c. 1550 oil on canvas painting by Titian, now in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
Conversation at the Café is an oil on panel painting by Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, created c. 1879. It is held in a private collection.
The Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, created c. 1894. It is held in the National Portrait Gallery, in London.
The Painter Brown and His Family, also known as The Painter John Lewis Brown with His Wife and Daughter, is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, from 1890. It is held at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon.
Madame Charles Max is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, from 1896. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.
Fireworks is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, dated from c. 1892–1895. It is held at the Museo Giovanni Boldini, in Ferrara, since its acquisition from the collection of Emilia Cardona in 1974.
The Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou is an oil on canvas painting by Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, from 1897. It is held at the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.
