Giulio Aristide Sartorio visited Egypt in 1919, commissioned by King Fu’ad I to paint two portraits. He took the opportunity to also explore Syria and the Holy Land, and the places he visited became subjects of his pastels and paintings. In Jerusalem, he was particularly fascinated by the Mosque of Omar, which inspired the painting Jerusalem. The Mosque of Omar.
From a young age, Antonio Mancini demonstrated an innate taste for fine art. He was a precocious natural talent, considered an enfant prodige destined for a great future. This anticipated fame began to spread when Mancini first went to Naples as a teenager, visiting its churches and acquiring technical skills from studying works of Caravaggio and Battistello Caracciolo.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paul César Helleu's painting, now acclaimed and recognizable beyond European borders, opened up a new creative season.
Rubens Santoro’s first encounter with Venice dates back to 1880, while he only began to stay there in 1884. The city fascinated him and he immediately decided to try his hand at urban views.
Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara 1842 – Paris 1931) is a timeless painter. His artistic vitality was as unstoppable as his genius; his biography is a complex and fascinating puzzle, made up of meetings, disagreements, drastic decisions and great passion: he was both a terrible man and a sublime artist.