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Paul Delvaux (23 septiembre 1897-20 julio 1994) fue un pintor belga, famoso por sus pinturas surrealistas con desnudos femeninos. Delvaux nació en Antheit en la provincia belga de Lieja, el hijo de un abogado. El joven Delvaux tomó clases de música, estudió griego y latín, y absorbe la ficción de Julio Verne y la poesía de Homero. Toda su obra iba ...... |
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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro, más conocido como Camille Pissarro (* Saint Thomas, 10 de julio de 1830 - &dagger París, 13 de noviembre de 1903), fue un pintor impresionista y después neo-impresionista francés. Está considerado como uno de los fundadores del movimiento impresionista. Como decano del impresionismo tuvo un importante papel de conci...... |
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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism-nowhere is this more apparent ...... |
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: May 31 1862, Ufa - 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He studied under Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890...... |
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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (Figueras, 11 de mayo de 1904 - Figueras, 23 de enero de 1989), primer marqués de Púbol, fue un pintor surrealista español nacido en Cataluña. Dalí es conocido por sus impactantes y oníricas imágenes surrealistas. Sus habilidades pictóricas se suelen atribuir a la influencia y admiración por el arte renacenti...... |
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Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky) (Russian: May 1735 - April 17, 1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter. Biography Dmitry was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in a family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky. His father was his first art teacher. Later be became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to Kiev to paint the Cathedral of...... |
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Alberto Durero (en alemán Albrecht Dürer) (* Núremberg 21 de mayo de 1471 - &dagger Núremberg 6 de abril de 1528) es el artista más famoso del Renacimiento alemán, conocido en todo el mundo por sus pinturas, dibujos, grabados y escritos teóricos sobre arte, que ejercieron una profunda influencia en los artistas del siglo XVI de su propio país y ...... |
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Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 - 1556) was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, he already constitutes, through his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions, a transitional st...... |
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Victor Mu satov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teach...... |
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Vincent Willem van Gogh (Groot-Zundert (Países Bajos), 30 de marzo de 1853 - 29 de julio de 1890) fue un pintor neerlandés y figura destacada del Postimpresionismo. Pintó 900 cuadros (27 de ellos autorretratos y 148 acuarelas) y 1.600 dibujos. Escribió además 800 cartas, 650 de ellas a su hermano menor Theo Van Gogh. Primera etapa de su vida (1853-...... |
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Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. Life Hieronymus Bosch was born Hieronymus (or Je...... |
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Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci (Anchiano, Italia, 15 de abril de 1452 - Castillo de Clos-Lucé, Francia, 2 de mayo de 1519) fue un arquitecto, escultor, pintor, inventor, músico, ingeniero y el hombre del Renacimiento por excelencia. Humanista de primera línea, está ampliamente considerado como uno de los más grandes pintores de todos los tiempos y ...... |
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Vásárhelyi Gyozo, mayormente conocido como Víctor Vasarely (Pécs, Hungría, 9 de abril de 1908 - Francia, 15 de marzo de 1997) fue un artista al que se ha considerado a menudo como el padre del Op Art. Obra de Vasarely expuesta en HungríaComenzó a estudiar medicina en Hungría, pero dejó la carrera al cabo de dos años. Se interesó entonces por el art...... |
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Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De) when it stands alone. Life and...... |
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The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens , b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history. By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the imaginative freedom and classical themes of...... |
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Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino --d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States ), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition a...... |
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Fra Angelico (c. 1395 - 18 de fevereiro de 1455), nascido Guido di Pietro, foi um pintor Renascença italiana, que se refere o Vidas de Vasari dos Artistas como tendo "um talento raro e perfeito". Conhecido na Itália como il Beato Angelico, ele era conhecido por seus contemporâneos como Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (irmão de John Fiesole). Em Vidas Giorg...... |
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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Livorno 12 de julio de 1884 - París 24 de enero de 1920) fue un pintor y escultor italiano, perteneciente a la denominada Escuela de París. Modigliani es el arquetipo del artista bohemio: una vida marcada por una mezcla de drogas, alcohol, mujeres, pobreza, y enfermedad. Sólo alcanzó la fama después de muerto, pero mer...... |
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Gerard David (c. 1460 - August 13, 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Life He was born in Oudewater, now located in Utrecht. He spent his mature career in Bruges, where he was a member of the painters' guild. Upon the death of Hans Memling in 1494, David became Bruges' leading p...... |
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein (Nueva York, 27 de octubre de 1923 - Nueva York, 29 de septiembre de 1997), pintor estadounidense de pop art, artista gráfico y escultor, conocido sobre todo por sus interpretaciones a gran escala del arte del cómic . Nosotros pensamos que la generación anterior intentaba alcanzar su subconsciente, mientras que los artistas pop...... |
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Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) (Florencia, Italia, 1386 - ibídem, 13 de diciembre de 1466) fue un famoso artista y escultor italiano de principios del Renacimiento. Junto con Leon Battista Alberti, Brunelleschi y Masaccio, fue uno de los creadores del estilo renacentista. Donatello destacó en una fuerza innovadora en el campo de la es...... |
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Málaga, 25 de octubre de 1881 - Mougins, Francia, 8 de abril de 1973), conocido como Pablo Picasso, fue un pintor y escultor español, creador, junto con Georges Braque y Juan Gris, del movimiento cubista. Considerado uno de los mayores artistas del siglo XX, participó desde la génesis de muchos movimientos artísticos que se prop...... |
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 de março de 1746 - 16 Abril 1828) foi um pintor espanhol e printmaker considerado tanto como o último dos antigos mestres e como o primeiro dos modernos. Goya foi um pintor da corte para a Coroa espanhola e um cronista da história. O elemento subversivo e subjetiva em sua arte, bem como sua manipulação ousada ...... |
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Paul Klee (German pronunciation: 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color t...... |
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Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /'???r/, Dutch: ( listen)), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessel...... |
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Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 - 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna . He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colour...... |
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Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Life Odilon Redon (pronounced o dee lawn r'dawn) was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile. Redon ...... |
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Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460 - 1525/1526) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian Renaissance painting during his lifetime...... |
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Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 - c. 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380 and his father, Niccolò di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. Gentile worked in various ...... |
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Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1...... |
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he create...... |
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Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: August 30, 1860 - August 4 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kybartai, Kaunas region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a ...... |
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Masaccio (21 de diciembre 1401 - otoño 1428), nacido Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, fue el primer gran pintor del Quattrocento período del Renacimiento italiano. Según Vasari, Masaccio fue el mejor pintor de su generación por su habilidad para recrear las cifras reales y movimientos, así como una convincente sensación de tridimensionalidad. El ...... |
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Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Biography Breakfast, 1886-1887, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The NetherlandsPaul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863. He followed a course of training in architect...... |
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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, mais conhecido como Sandro Botticelli ou Botticello Il ("The Little Barrel", c. 1445 - 17 de maio de 1510) foi um pintor italiano da Escola Florentina durante a Renascença (Quattrocento). Menos de cem anos depois, esse movimento, sob o patrocínio de Lorenzo de Médici, foi caracterizado por Giorgio Vasari com...... |
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Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968 French pronunciation: ) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereb...... |
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Francis Picabia (born François Marie Martinez Picabia, 22 January 1879 - 30 November 1953) was a French painter and poet. Biography Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven. His father was of aristocratic Spani...... |
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (31 de dezembro de 1617 (batizados) - 03 de abril de 1682) foi um pintor espanhol, uma das figuras mais importantes da pintura barroca na Espanha. Embora ele seja mais conhecido por suas obras religiosas, Murillo também produziu um número considerável de pinturas de mulheres contemporâneas e crianças. Estes retratos animad...... |
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Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983 Catalan pronunciation: ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous in...... |
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Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming w...... |
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Francis Bacon is a contemporary painter who was born in Ireland in the early 20th century but gre up in Britain. Most of his paintings feature figures abstracted and isolated. It wasn’t until he was middle aged that Bacon’s painting career really took off. Despite being an existentialist, something that he often showed through his paintings, Bacon had a large group of friends and often went out and socialized, only becoming more introspective and spending time alone later in life after the suicide of his lover.... |
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Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255/1260, Siena - c. 1318/1319, Siena) fue probablemente el artista más influyente de Siena, Italia, de su tiempo. Se le considera como uno de los más influyentes en la formación del estilo gótico internacional. Inspirador de Simone Martini y los hermanos Ambrogio y Pietro Lorenzetti, entre otros. Sus trabajos incluyen la...... |
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Franz Stuck (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Life and career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. To begin his artistic education in 1878 he went to Munich, where he would settle for life. F...... |
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This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2007) Self-portrait, 1880sValentin Alexandrovich Serov (January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his ...... |
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Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. Life Seurat was born into a wealt...... |
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René François Ghislain Magritte (n. 21 de noviembre de 1898, en Lessines, Bélgica - 15 de agosto de 1967, en Bruselas, Bélgica) fue un pintor surrealista belga. Conocido por sus ingeniosas y provocativas imágenes, pretendía con su trabajo cambiar la percepción precondicionada de la realidad y forzar al observador a hacerse hipersensitivo a su entor...... |
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Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his paintings Improvisations, Impressions, and Compositions. In 1886, he enrolled at ...... |
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having achieved youthful succes...... |
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Édouard Manet (23 de enero de 1832 - 30 de abril de 1883) fue un célebre pintor francés, que se destacó al ser uno de los iniciadores del impresionismo. Vida Édouard Manet nació en París el 23 de Enero de 1832, en una familia acomodada. Sus días escolares pasaron sin acontecimientos destacables y terminó su formación sin obtener la calificación nec...... |
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 - May 5, 1900) was a painter of Armenian descent living and working Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Life Aivazovsky was born in the town of Feodosiya, Crimea (Russian Empire) to a poor Armenian family. His parents family name was Aivazian. Some of...... |
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Antonio Canova (Possagno, Italia, 1 de noviembre de 1757 - Venecia, 13 de octubre de 1822) fue un escultor italiano. Napoleón divinizado, patio de la Pinacoteca de Brera, Milán, ejemplo de inspiración en los modelos clásicos grecorromanos por parte de este escultor neoclasicista. Busto de Napoleón, el Gran Corso. Las Tres Gracias Psique reanimada p...... |
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Maurice Denis (25 de noviembre de 1870 - noviembre de 1943) fue un pintor francés, escritor y miembro de los movimientos simbolismo y Les Nabis. Sus teorías contribuyeron a la fundación del cubismo, fauvismo, y arte abstracto. Biografía Nació en Granville (Normandía). Desde la infancia conoció al pintor Vuillard. En 1888 empezó a estudiar en la Aca...... |
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Claude Monet (pronúncia francesa:) também conhecido como Oscar Claude Monet ou Oscar Claude Monet (14 de novembro, 1840 - 5 de Dezembro de 1926) foi um dos fundadores da pintura impressionista francesa, eo praticante mais consistente e prolífico da filosofia do movimento de expressar suas percepções antes natureza, especialmente quando aplicado a p...... |
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571-18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Trained in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian, Cara...... |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits...... |
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Giotto di Bondone (c.?1267 - January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master ...... |
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (or Arkhip Kuinji , Russian: (January 27, 1842 (?) - July 24, 1910) - Russian landscape painter. Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol (present-day Ukraine), but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi (someti...... |
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Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: 19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...... |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841-December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". Biography Youth P...... |
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the re...... |
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the t...... |
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Sevilla, 6 de junio de 1599 - Madrid, 6 de agosto de 1660) conocido como Diego Velázquez, fue un pintor barroco, considerado uno de los máximos exponentes de la pintura española y figura indiscutible de la pintura universal. Pasó sus primeros años en Sevilla donde desarrolló un estilo naturalista de iluminación...... |
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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Lop'jal near Vyatka, May 15 (N.S.), 1848 - Moscow, June 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art. Biography Childhood (1848-1858) A Knight at the CrossroadsViktor Vasnetsov was born in a remote villag...... |
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Pietro Perugino (1446-1524) was the leading painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Biography Early years He was born Pietro Vannucci in Città della Pieve, Umbria, the son of Cristoforo Vannucci his nickname characterizes him as from Perugia, the chief city of Umbria...... |
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Léger nasceu na Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, onde seu pai criava gado. Fernand Léger inicialmente treinados como um arquiteto de 1897-1899 antes de se mudar em 1900 para Paris, onde ele apoiou-se como desenhista arquitetônico. Após o serviço militar em Versalhes, em 1902-1903, ele se matriculou na Escola de Artes Decorativas, ele também se apli...... |
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /'ælm? 'tæd?m?/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the res...... |
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar de Gas, más conocido como Edgar Degas (París, 19 de julio de 1834 - ibídem, 27 de septiembre de 1917), fue un pintor y escultor francés. Es conocido por su visión particular sobre el mundo del ballet, capturando escenas sutiles y bellas, en obras al pastel. Carrera artística Después de regresar de Italia, Degas copió pinturas ...... |
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Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: (5 August 1844, Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great...... |
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Turner, referred to as William Turner and also J. M. W. Turner, was a great English painter at the very beginning of the 19th century. Turner was a landscape painter and one of the best known of English painters. His style was very different from that of any one of contemporaries such as Constable, another famous English landscape painter. Turner wasn’t interested in techniques such as rendering the world in realistic tones, or at least trying to portray the land in a naturalistic sense, even if it did include fantastic elements. Instead we have a forerunner to the Impressionists.... |
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Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he became one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Early life The Charging Chasseur, 1812.Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in t...... |
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Benito Rebolledo Correa, pintor chileno, nasceu em Curico em 02 de agosto de 1880 e morreu em Santiago em 29 de junho de 1964. De origem humilde, ele começou sua carreira aos quinze anos depois de se mudar para Santiago e os interessados em aprender as técnicas de cartazes e pintura decorativa. Naquela época, fazia parte do tolstoiano Colony, um ...... |
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Edward Hopper (22 de julho de 1882 - 15 de maio de 1967) foi um pintor realista americano proeminente e gravurista. Enquanto a maioria popularmente conhecido por suas pinturas a óleo, ele foi igualmente proficiente como um aquarelista e gravurista em gravura. Em ambos os suas cenas urbanas e rurais, a sua reposição e finamente renderings calculado ...... |
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Alexandre Cabanel (28 de setembro de 1823 - 23 Janeiro 1889) foi um pintor francês. Cabanel nasceu em Montpellier, Hérault. Pintou assuntos históricos, clássicos e religiosos no estilo acadêmico. Ele também era conhecido como um pintor de retratos. Diccionario Enciclopédico de acordo com a Salvat, Cabanel é o melhor representante da arte L'pompier ...... |
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was a Venetian painter and printmaker. He was prolific, and worked not only in the region of Veneto or Venetia, one of Italy's twenty regions, but also in Germany and Spain. Biography Early life (1696-1726) Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the...... |
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819-31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important ...... |
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Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470 - August 31, 1528), was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only ten paintings-several co...... |
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Hippolyte Delaroche (julio 17mo, 1797-noviembre 4, 1856), comúnmente conocido como Paul Delaroche, fue un pintor francés nacido en París. Delaroche nació en una familia adinerada y fue entrenado por Antoine-Jean, el barón Gros, quien pintó historias de tamaño natural y había muchos estudiantes. La primera foto de Delaroche exhibió fue el gran Joas ...... |
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot (octubre 15, 1836 hasta agosto 8, 1902) fue un pintor francés, que pasó gran parte de su carrera en Gran Bretaña. Tissot nació en Nantes. Estudió en la École des Beaux-Arts en París bajo Ingres, Flandrin y Lamothe, y expuesto en el Salón de París por primera vez a la edad de veintitrés años. En 1861 mostró a la Reunión d...... |
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), también conocido como Andō Hiroshige, nombre artístico de Andō Tokutarō, fue uno de los más grandes paisajistas de la pintura japonesa, llevando esta disciplina a un nivel artístico y de estilo inigualado. Se distinguió por series de grabados sobre el monte Fuji y sobre Edo (actual Tokio), que dibuja con maestría los ...... |
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Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-between 7 and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book desig...... |
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Hans Makart (mayo 28, 1840-octubre 3, 1884) fue un pintor austríaco siglo 19 la historia académica, diseñador y decorador, más conocido por su influencia sobre Gustav Klimt y otros artistas de Austria, pero en su propia era considerado un importante artista sí mismo y era una figura célebre en la alta cultura de Viena, al que asistieron con la adul...... |
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Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 - 7 de enero 1619) fue un orfebre Inglés y limner mejor conocido por su retrato de miniaturas de los miembros de los tribunales de Isabel I y Jacobo I de Inglaterra. El pintado de miniaturas sobre todo pequeñas ovales, pero también algunas miniaturas más grandes del gabinete, hasta cerca de diez pulgadas de alto, y al men...... |
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. Life Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louv...... |
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Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have bee...... |
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Henri Fantin-Latour (enero 14to, 1836-08 25, 1904) fue un pintor y litógrafo francés más conocido por sus pinturas de flores y retratos de grupo de artistas parisinos y escritores. Nació Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour en Grenoble, Isère. En su juventud, recibió lecciones de dibujo de su padre, que era un artista. En 1850 ingresó en la Eco...... |
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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 de diciembre de 1869 - 3 de noviembre de 1954) fue un pintor francés conocido por su uso del color y por su uso original y fluido del dibujo. Como dibujante, grabador, escultor, pero principalmente como pintor, Matisse es reconocido ampliamente como uno de los grandes artistas del siglo XX. Al inicio de su carrera se ...... |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 de maio, 1828 - 9 de Abril 1882) foi um poeta Inglês, ilustrador, pintor e tradutor. Ele fundou a Irmandade pré-rafaelita em 1848 com William Holman Hunt e John Everett Millais, e foi mais tarde a ser a principal inspiração para uma segunda geração de artistas e escritores influenciados pelo movimento, mais notavelmente W...... |
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Francisco Gutierrez Cossio (Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 20 de outubro de 1898 - Alicante, 16 de janeiro de 1970), também conhecido como Pancho Cossio, pintor espanhol contemporâneo. Biografia Seus pais também espanhol, Genaro Gutierrez, lojista de rapé, que estava à frente da lei abolir a escravidão em sua propriedade, e Casimira Cossio. Pancho logo após ...... |
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Tamara de Lempicka o Tamara Lempicka, nacida Maria Górska, fue una pintora nacida en Varsovia, Polonia, el 16 de mayo de 1898. Destacó por la belleza de sus retratos femeninos, de pleno estilo art decó. Nació en el seno de una familia acaudalada, siendo desde pequeña una niña autoritaria y con carácter. En 1910 pinta su primer trabajo, el retrato d...... |
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Bernardo Bellotto (30 de janeiro de 1720 - 17 de Outubro 1780) foi um pintor de paisagens urbanas ou Venitian vedutista, e gravurista na gravura famoso por sua vedutes das cidades europeias (Dresden, Viena, Turim e Varsóvia). Foi aluno e sobrinho de Canaletto e às vezes usou o nome de ilustres deste último, assinando-se como Bernardo Canaletto. Esp...... |
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William Blake (28 November 1757-12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of...... |
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George Frederic Watts, OM (23 de fevereiro, 1817 - 1 de Julho de 1904) foi um pintor Inglês populares vitoriana e escultor associado ao movimento simbolista. Watts ficou famoso em sua vida por suas obras alegóricas, como Hope (ver imagem) e Amor e Vida. Estas pinturas foram destinados a formar parte de um ciclo épico simbólico chamado a "Casa da Vi...... |
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Aureliano de Beruete y Moret (n.Madrid, 1845 - ibidem 1912). Abogado español, que tomó partido en la vida política de su país, llegando a ser diputado en las legislaturas de 1871 y 1872, aunque pronto abandonó esos intereses para dedicarse de lleno a la pintura. Como artista se formó en la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, donde t...... |
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Alfons Maria Mucha ['alfɔns 'marɪja 'muxa] (24 de julio de 1860 - 14 de julio de 1939) fue un pintor y artista decorativo checo, ampliamente reconocido por ser uno de los máximos exponentes del Art Nouveau. Biografía Nació en la ciudad de Ivancice (Moravia, Imperio austríaco) el 24 de julio de 1860. Sus habilidades para el canto le permitieron cont...... |
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Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (25 October 1767 - 8 December 1830) was a Swiss-born French nobleman, thinker, writer and politician. Biography Constant was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to descendants of noble Huguenots who fled France during the Huguenot wars in the early 16th century to settle in Lausanne. He was educated by private tutors ...... |
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Bernardo Strozzi (llamado Il Cappuccino, «el Capuchino» o el «Fraile genovés» Génova, h. 1581 - Venecia, 2 de agosto de 1644) fue un destacado y prolífico pintor barroco italiano, que trabajó tanto en Génova como en Venecia. Biografía Strozzi nació en Génova hacia 1581 no se sabe la fecha exacta. Probablemente no esté relacionado con la otra famil...... |
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Thomas Gainsborough (bautizado 14 may 1727 hasta 2 ag 1788) fue un retrato de Inglés y pintor de paisajes. Suffolk Thomas Gainsborough nació en Sudbury, Suffolk. Él era el hijo menor de Juan Gainsborough, un tejedor y fabricante de artículos de lana. A la edad de trece años, impresionó a su padre con sus habilidades de dibujante para que le permiti...... |
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Francisco de Zurbarán (07 de novembro de 1598 - 27 agosto de 1664) foi um pintor espanhol. Ele é conhecido principalmente por suas pinturas religiosas retratando monges, freiras e mártires, e por sua naturezas-mortas. Zurbarán ganhou o apelido espanhol Caravaggio, devido ao uso, forte realista do claro-escuro em que se destacou. Primeiros anos de v...... |
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Arnold BÖCKLIN (n. la 16-an de oktobro 1827 en Bazelo - m. la 16-an de januaro 1901 en San Domenico) estis svisa-germana pentristo, desegnisto, grafikisto kaj skulptisto. Inter 1845 kaj 1847, li studadis en la Belarta Akademio de Düsseldorf, kaj sekve entreprenis artvojaĝon al Svislando, Nederlando kaj Francio. Li laboris en Romo inter 1850 kaj 185...... |
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