Painter: Robert Campin
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm

This portrait and the portrait of ‘A Man’, presumably of a husband and wife, are a pair and were perhaps originally joined together as a diptych. The backs are marbled, which suggests that they were not intended to be hung against a wall.

The heads of Campin’s sitters occupy almost the entire surface of the painting. All the details of face and hat are evenly lit and clearly visible. Subtle variations of colour suggest the man’s reddened skin and wrinkles. The graduated tones of the irises of his eyes give the impression of light glowing within. The woman’s eyes sparkle: Campin has put catchlights in the whites so that they as well as the pupils shine.

Painter: Robert Campin
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm

Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle, is usually considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting. This had been a matter of controversy for decades; Campin’s life is relatively well documented for the period, but no works in assessable condition could be securely connected with him, whilst a corpus of work had been attached to the unidentified “Master of Flémalle”, named after the supposed origin of a work

The tightest definition of the works from his own hand includes only the “Flémalle” panels, a Nativity at Dijon, a Crucified Thief (fragment of a Crucifixion) in Frankfurt, two portraits of a man and woman in London (of around 1430), and perhaps the Seilern Triptych. This, which excludes the best known works usually attributed to him, which are given to his workshop or followers, is the position taken by Lorne Campbell.

Painter: Thomas Kinkade
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 33 * 25 cm

Thomas Kinkade (born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter of popular and commercial realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company. He characterizes himself as “Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light,” a phrase he protects through trademark, and likes to be known as “America’s most-collected living artist”. Media Arts, the publicly-traded company that licenses and sells Kinkade’s products, claims that 1 in 20 homes in the U.S. feature some form of Thomas Kinkade’s art.

Painter: Zhao Guojing & Wang Meifang
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 20 * 25 cm

Zhao Guojing (1950, Jingxian, Hebei Province) was among those young urbanites who were sent “up to the mountains and down to the villages” (上山下乡, shangshan xiaxiang). He joined a military rural reclamation unit in Heilongjiang Province in 1968. In 1973, he entered the National Painting Training Section of the Tianjin Art Academy. After his graduation in 1976, he was employed by the Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House, where he now is a member of the Comic Strip Editorial Office.

Zhao specializes in figurative painting and comic strips. A number of his works has been included in national collections. He often collaborates with Ms. Wang Meifang.

Painter: MAKAROV Ivan
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 35 * 42.5 cm

Ivan Kuzmich Makarov was a Russian painter. He was a son of the serf painter Kuzma Aleksandrovich Makarov. Under the education of Alexey Markov, Ivan Makarov chose the portrait painting, participating also in paintings of Spassky Cathedral.

Painter: Johannes Vermeer
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 25 * 30 cm

The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Today the painting is kept in the Mauritshuis gallery in the Hague. It is sometimes referred to as “the Mona Lisa of the North” or “the Dutch Mona Lisa”.

Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most exquisite paintings in Western art.

His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most portray figures in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which he rendered effects of light and color and for the poetic quality of his images.

Painter: François Boucher
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 50 * 42 cm

The Rape of Europa, c.1732-34, Wallace Collection, London, England

François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture. He also painted several portraits of his illustrious patroness, Madame de Pompadour.

Painter: Zhao Guojing & Wang Meifang
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 20 * 24.3 cm

Zhao Guojing (1950, Jingxian, Hebei Province) was among those young urbanites who were sent “up to the mountains and down to the villages” (上山下乡, shangshan xiaxiang). He joined a military rural reclamation unit in Heilongjiang Province in 1968. In 1973, he entered the National Painting Training Section of the Tianjin Art Academy. After his graduation in 1976, he was employed by the Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House, where he now is a member of the Comic Strip Editorial Office.

Zhao specializes in figurative painting and comic strips. A number of his works has been included in national collections. He often collaborates with Ms. Wang Meifang.

Painter: Raphael Sanzio
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 35 * 45,5 cm

The Veiled Woman, or La Donna Velata, c.1516, Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (1483 – 1520) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Painter: Guido Reni
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 30 * 39 cm

Guido Reni (4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.

Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. He may also have trained with a painter by the name of Ferrantini. When Reni was about twenty years old, the three Calvaert pupils migrated to the rising rival studio, named Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the “newly embarked”, or progressives), led by Lodovico Carracci. They went on to form the nucleus of a prolific and successful school of Bolognese painters who followed Annibale Carracci to Rome. Like many other Bolognese painters, Reni’s painting was thematic and eclectic in style.

Jesus is shown after the Mocking of Christ when he was crowned with thorns. New Testament (e.g. John 19: 1-3).

This painting was inspired by one of the numerous versions of this subject painted by Guido Reni (such as that in Paris, Louvre). The picture, which may have been painted as late as the early 18th century, has a provenance from the collection of Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga in Rome. It can be seen in a painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini which shows a view of Valenti’s gallery, painted in 1749 (Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum).