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Drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils/followers have been extensively studied by many artists and scholars [l] through the centuries. His original draughtsmanship has been described as an individualistic art style that was very similar to East Asian old masters, most notably Chinese masters: [105] [106]
An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving, woodcut, or etching) made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way. In theory, "Old Master" applies only to artists who were fully trained, were Masters of their local artists' guild, and worked independently, but in practice ...
Michelangelo was one of the greatest Renaissance masters who highly influenced the development of Western art. Known for his sculptures, paintings, poems, and, later, his architectural commissions ...
The Printed Image in the West: History and Techniques from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Timeline of Art; Large list of links to museum etc. online images of old master prints Archived 2016-08-23 at the Wayback Machine; Washington Post review of NGA exhibition on C15 German woodcuts; Old master prints blog
Ruiz was a traditional academic artist and instructor, who believed that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing the human body from plaster casts and live models. His son became preoccupied with art to the detriment of his classwork.
Raphael was one of the finest draftsmen in the history of Western art, and used drawings extensively to plan his compositions. According to a near-contemporary, when beginning to plan a composition, he would lay out a large number of stock drawings of his on the floor, and begin to draw "rapidly", borrowing figures from here and there. [ 75 ]
Wassily Kandinsky a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist, one of the most famous 20th-century artists is generally considered the first important painter of modern abstract art. As an early Modernist, in search of new modes of visual expression, and spiritual expression, he theorized as did contemporary occultists and theosophists ...
The technical quality of Dutch artists was generally high, still mostly following the old medieval system of training by apprenticeship with a master. Typically, workshops were smaller than in Flanders or Italy, with only one or two apprentices at a time, the number often being restricted by guild regulations.