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Sir John Everett Millais, full name John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, was one of the most prominent English painters and illustrators of the 19th century and one of the main founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement. He was born in Southampton on 8 June 1829. Millais was an artistic genius from childhood. At the age of 11, he was the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools, where he won all the Academy's prizes. This precocious talent and extraordinary technical ability quickly made him a prominent figure in the art world. In 1848, at the age of 19, Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with two other young artists, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This artistic movement was formed in protest against what they saw as the "mechanical method" of the Mannerist painters and followers of Raphael. They aimed to return to the "truth of nature", using bright…

Is one of Michelangelo's most important early works of art, probably created when he was 12 or 13, around 1487–1488. The painting is based on a famous engraving by the 15th-century German artist Martin Schongauer called Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons. The painting depicts the common medieval subject of Saint Anthony the Great being attacked by demons in the desert. Saint Anthony was an Egyptian Christian saint who lived in the 4th century AD and is known as one of the Desert Fathers. His life, especially his battle with demonic temptations in the desert, is detailed in the Life of Saint Anthony by Athanasius of Alexandria. In this painting, Saint Anthony is suspended in the air and attacked by demonic monsters. This scene is often known as "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" or "The Trial of Saint Anthony".

Michelangelo's biographers Giorgio Vasari and Ascanio Condovi recount that Michelangelo went to…

Ruperto Banterle (born 19 September 1889 in Milan, died 20 July 1968 in Gombion) was an Italian sculptor.

He showed artistic talent from a young age and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa, while working in the studio of the sculptor Giovanni Scanzi. In 1911 he moved to Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of Auguste Rodin, Moderdo Rousseau, Camille Claudel and Antoine Bourdelle.

For political reasons he returned to Verona, where he opened a studio and created several funerary monuments, including a monument to the mother of his friend Lionello Fiumi, "L'Anelito Fuggente". At the beginning of World War I, he was called up to fight in the Karst region and Albania.

In the 1930s, he worked on important public commissions for the city of Verona, creating the sculptural groups of the Casa del Mutilato designed by his brother, the architect Francesco Banterle, an…

Remedios Varo (1908–1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She is known for her mysterious paintings of hermaphroditic beings involved in magical arts or the occult.

She was born on December 16, 1908 in the city of Ángeles in the province of Girona in the region of Catalonia. Her full name was María de los Remedios Alicia Rodrigue Varo y Uranga.

She was one of the first women to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.

In the 1930s, she collaborated with Catalan surrealist artists in Barcelona, ​​and in 1937 she moved to Paris, where she married the surrealist poet Benjamin Pere. In Paris, she met André Breton and other surrealists and participated in their exhibitions.

With the outbreak of World War II in 1941, he fled France and went to Mexico City, where he lived for the rest of his life. In Mexico, h…