Eugene Delacroix was the greatest French painter of the Romantic Movement. In spite of being hailed as the leader of the Romantic Movement, his predilection for exotic and emotionally charged subjec……続きを見る
John William Waterhouse was a painter of classical, historical, and literary subjects. His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. In th……続きを見る
John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American painter, muralist, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. LaFarge was born in New York City to wealthy French parents. H……続きを見る
Leonardo, like his contemporary Christopher Columbus, possessed an insatiable curiosity and desire for discovery of unknown worlds. Only observation, says many times Leonardo, is the key to knowledg……続きを見る
Amedeo Modigliani was the quintessence of a tragic artist. He contracted tuberculosis at an early age, which may be one reason why he so willingly engaged in self-destructive behaviour. Living in Pa……続きを見る
Nicolas Poussin was the foremost painter of the classical French Baroque. His paintings are characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favours line over color. Until the 20th century he remaine……続きを見る
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel is as a rule observed among the Russian artists of the Symbolist movement. Indeed, he obviously stood isolated from modern art tendencies; therefore the source of his ……続きを見る
This Art Book contains 91 reproductions of Mary Cassatt pastels, drawings and watercolours.
Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist who depicted the life of women, essentially the intimate bond b……続きを見る
Lovis Corinth, whose real name is Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth, was a German painter and printmaker, one of the most important representatives of German Impressionism and Expressionism. Corinth's oe……続きを見る
Léon Bakst was a Russian painter and scene- and costume designer. After graduating from gymnasium, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as a non-credit student, because he had failed the……続きを見る
"To tell the truth, the peasant subjects suit my temperament best; for I must confess, even if you think me a socialist, that the human side of art is what touches me most."
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni exercised a huge influence on the development of Western art. He is considered a nominee for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with Leonar……続きを見る
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. All the works of Murillo are over 450. Their content is mainly religious. Significant groups among them are pictures of the type to th……続きを見る
Joshua Reynolds was English portrait painter who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. His art, frequently based on the Old Masters or antique sculpture, were intended……続きを見る
This Art Book contains 66 annotated reproductions of Mary Cassatt paintings with date and interesting facts page below.
Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist painter who depicted th……続きを見る
Maurice Brazil Prendergast was an American Post-Impressionist artist. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from……続きを見る
Julius LeBlanc Stewart was an American artist who spent almost his entire career in Paris. A contemporary of colleague expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisia……続きを見る
Lorenzo Lotto 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 ……続きを見る
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a Russian painter regarded as a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism and the first Russian painter to gain widespread recognition in the……続きを見る
Konstantin Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter, artist with a rare gift for color harmonization. His works represent a merger of the classic art tradition with impressionism and art-……続きを見る
Chase worked in all media but was excellent in pastel drawing. He as well created a lot of watercolor paintings and etchings. Highly proficient in pastel as well as oils, Chase organized w……続きを見る
William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who have been credited with pioneering western sequential art. He was also a popular p……続きを見る
William Blake was English Romantic artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet. He possessed visionary powers and in art as in life was an individualist who made a standard of nonco……続きを見る
Thomas Cole was an American artist, regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that prospered in the mid-19th century. Cole's work was known for its realistic and d……続きを見る
William Merritt Chase was an American painter, notorious as an supporter of Impressionism and also fonder of the Chase School. He worked in all media though was most fluent in oil painting……続きを見る
"My job is to draw what I see, not what I know." - J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner was English artist, one of the greatest and most imaginative painters who put on a pedestal landscape……続きを見る
As a boy, Ilya Repin received his first lessons in art in 1858, when he worked for a talented icon painter I. M. Bunakov. Working with Kramskoi, in a year Repin developed his skills sufficiently to ……続きを見る
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter, draftsman, etcher and printmaker, best known for his marine themes. He is regarded as one of the leading American painters in 19th-century ……続きを見る
