François Boucher was French Rococo painter, engraver, and designer, who best symbolize the frivolity and elegant superficiality of French court life at the middle of the 18th century. He was ……続きを見る
Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most famous names in Japanese art, and the epitome of the later Ukiyo-e ('floating world') school. He also is one of the great draftsmen of the world. With his inimi……続きを見る
Lord Frederic Leighton was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. He preferred to paint subject matter that was connected to ancient Greek and Roman mythology and intended……続きを見る
John William Waterhouse was an English painter famous for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. His early works were not Pre-Raphaelite in nature, but were of classical themes in the spirit……続きを見る
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape artist strongly connected with the Peredvizhniki movement. His paintings are famous for lyrical representation of woods and nature. The masterpieces o……続きを見る
Jean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist artist. Many of his paintings are examples of figure compositions in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape. His wo……続きを見る
Sir John Everett Millais was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His prodigious artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy schools……続きを見る
Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch painter, notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also influential in the evolution of ……続きを見る
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his opponent Eugèn……続きを見る
George Stubbs was marvellous English animal painter and anatomical draftsman, famous for his paintings of horses. Stubbs also painted a wide range of other animals, including the lion, tiger, giraff……続きを見る
Jan Matejko (1838 – 1893) was a Polish artist famous for paintings of remarkable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of……続きを見る
Essential figure in the evolution from Realism to Impressionism, Edouard Manet was an significant painter who left his own distinctive mark on the world of painting. The young artist was influenced ……続きを見る
English writer and visual artist Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti had a marked tendency for mysticism in a range of forms. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt an……続きを見る
Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist artist in Primitive manner. Ridiculed during his lifetime, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
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The Venetian artist Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo was perhaps the greatest painter and draftsman of 18th-century in Europe. He was the classical example of the Italian Rococo.
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was a Valencian Spanish artist, outshined in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most characteristic paintings ……続きを見る
Gustave Caillebotte was a French Impressionist, though he painted in a more realistic style than many other Impressionists. In common with his precursors Millet and Courbet Caillebotte tried to pain……続きを見る
Thomas Gainsborough was the most versatile English painter of the 18th century, inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with new ideas and techniques. He alone among the great portrait……続きを見る
Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist artist whose most important accent was the depiction of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist w……続きを見る
François Boucher was an incredibly productive, making thousands of drawings (sketches and finished works) in chalk, ink, pastels, preparing drawings for engraving, designing tapestrie……続きを見る
Eugène Louis Boudin was marine painter and one of the first French landscape artists to paint outdoors, expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. Although hi……続きを見る
Jan Steen was a Dutch genre painter of the Dutch Golden Age 17th century. Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his art. Daily life was Jan Steen's main pictori……続きを見る
Francesco Hayez was the leading paintert of Italian Romanticism in mid-19th-century. He lived long and was prolific. His work spanned both historic paintings, including those that would have appeale……続きを見る
Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, renowned for the precise rendering of his drawings and the compelling realism of his ……続きを見る
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was American painter, etcher, and lithographer who created a new set of principles for the fine arts, favoured "art for art's sake", and introduced a delicate style of ……続きを見る
Fyodor Vasilyev was a Russian landscape painter who introduced the lyrical landscape style in Russian art. In his early works we can feel the influence of the Barbizon school; it affected his art bu……続きを見る
Giotto di Bondone was Florentine painter and architect, already recognized by Dante as the leading artist of his day. His significance to the Renaissance can be gauged from the fact that not only th……続きを見る
Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor, best known for his illustrations of epic literature, such as those by Dante, Cervantes, Hugo, and Milton, as well as contemporar……続きを見る
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the greatest painter of the era. In the 1780s his rational brand of history painting marked a change……続きを見る
Henri-Edmond Cross was a French painter and printmaker, most applauded as a master of Neo-Impressionism who played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. His early paintings……続きを見る
