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The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours . La Grande Bible de Tours, issued in 1866, was a large ...
Color wheel. Gradient RGB / CMY color wheel. Seven-color and twelve-color color circles from 1708, attributed to Claude Boutet. Wilhelm von Bezold's 1874 Farbentafel. A color wheel or color circle[ 1] is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams ...
Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is the historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. [ 1] Modern color theory is generally referred to as Color science. While there is no clear distinction in scope ...
The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West. The book is valued and revered for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities [ 1 ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released the biggest causes of mortality in 2023. COVID was the fourth leading cause of mortality in 2022, linked to 245,614 deaths. It ...
This is so cool to see! Located in Long Beach, California, the Aquarium of the Pacific is home to many ocean animals, including Giant Pacific octopuses, an array of fish, sharks, turtles, otters ...
Trois crayons ( French: [tʁwɑ kʁɛjɔ̃]; English: "three chalks") is a drawing technique using three colors of chalk: red ( sanguine ), black (a type of schist ), and white. The paper used may be a mid-tone such as grey, blue, or tan. [1] Among numerous others, French painters Antoine Watteau and François Boucher drew studies of figures ...