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There, Bernard and Anquetin sold their first paintings, and Van Gogh exchanged work with Gauguin. Discussions on art, artists, and their social situations started during this exhibition, continued and expanded to include visitors to the show, like Camille Pissarro and his son Lucien, Signac and Seurat. In February 1888, feeling worn out from ...
Detail from Botticelli's most famous work, [4] The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 [1] – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli (/ ˌ b ɒ t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l i / BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]) or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born. [3]
Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, famous for his silkscreened art and experimental films. He studied design at Carnegie Tech, learning fine art and ...
A handful of works that are either authenticated or attributed to him have been regarded as among the great masterpieces. These paintings are famous for a variety of qualities that have been much imitated by students and discussed at great length by connoisseurs and critics. By the 1490s Leonardo had already been described as a "Divine" painter ...
She was born on 16 June 1894 [1] [2] in Warsaw, then part of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire. [9] Her father was Boris (born Benno [10]) Gurwik-Górski, a Russian-Jewish attorney for a French trading company, [9] [11] [12] [13] and her mother was Malwina Dekler, a Polish-Jewish [14] [15] socialite who had lived most of her life abroad and who met her husband at one of the European spas. [16]
Vasari, Life of Raphael from the Lives of the Artists, edition used: Artists of the Renaissance selected & ed Malcolm Bull, Penguin 1965 (page nos from BCA edn, 1979) Wölfflin, Heinrich; Classic Art; An Introduction to the Renaissance, 1952 in English (1968 edition), Phaidon, New York. Gigli, Laura (1992). Guide rionali di Roma (in Italian). Vol.
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.