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The conclusion of this work is that only eight works of art, [3] of unequal interest, were produced by authors who knew Mozart directly, or by sketches taken from drawings made from life. Since then, Mozart's "biographical paintings" have been published with more care, generally following the criteria that emerged from this analysis. [3]
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
An art diary, art journal or visual journal is a daily journal kept by artists, often containing both words and sketches, and occasionally including mixed media elements such as collages. Such books will frequently contain rough workings, in cartoon form, of ideas later to appear in finished works, as well as acting as a normal diary , by ...
The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects or Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni is a series of artist biographies written by Gian Pietro Bellori (1613–96), whom Julius von Schlosser called "the most important historiographer of art not only of Rome, but all Italy, even of Europe, in the seventeenth century". [1]
The Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists was a book series in 38 volumes edited by Joseph Cundall and his son Frank, [1] and published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington in London from 1879 to the 1890s.
This category is for lists of visual artists (only please) included in biographical compilations, some of them very small and limjited in scope. Some articles cover the life of the biographer, or the biographical work, but all should have lists of the subjects that are complete or nearly so.
Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
(The stereotypical example of an alternative autobiographical comic recounted the awkward moment which followed when, the cartoonist sitting alone in a coffee shop, their ex-girlfriend walks in.) Slice of life comics and comics strips gained popularity during this period as well. However, many artists pursued broader themes.