Kole Idromeno (1860 - 1939) - architect, sculptor, photographer, scene painter, engineer and painter. Idromeno is the most distinguished painter of the Albanian National Renaissance period. He was born in Shkodra, where he learned the first elements of photography from Pjeter Marubi. In 1876 he stayed for some months at the Academ of Fine Arts in Venice, and then worked in the studio of an Italian painter. When back in Albania(1878), he engaged himself in a number of activities, working as an architect, sculptor, photographer, scene painter, engineer and painter. He was the initiator of the first art exhibition in Shkodra (1923) and was represented in the first national art exhibition at Tirana (1931). He established a very active photographic studio. Idromeno was the first to show moving pictures in Albania (1912). He had kept up a correspondence with Lumiere brothers in Paris. His painting is very rich in details and of a highly artistic value. He created a number of ethnographic compositions. The portreit "Sister Tone" is not only his masterpiece, but also one of the best pieces of the whole Albanian fine arts. Idromeno also stands out as the first landscape painter in the modern Albanian painting school ("Courtyard of a house in Shkodra") and as the pioneer of the realistic secular painting. His name became known abroad as well, with works represented in international exhibitions, e.g. in Budapest (1900), New York (1939) etc. His paintings are now housed in the Gallery of Fine Arts in Tirana, Shkodra etc.