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100 Great Paintings. 100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [ 1 ] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ] The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with ...
Kristoffer Zetterstrand. Born. (1973-09-27) 27 September 1973 (age 51) Stockholm, Sweden. Website. zetterstrand.com. Kristoffer Zetterstrand (born 27 September 1973) is a Swedish surrealist artist, known for creating most of Minecraft ' s paintings.
Appearance. Vienna State Opera, painted by Hitler in 1912. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945, was also a painter. [ 1 ] During his Vienna years (1908–1913) he made his living as a professional artist and produced hundreds of works, but had little commercial success.
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 94.8 cm × 74.8 cm (37.3 in × 29.4 in) Location. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog[ a ] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [ 2 ] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered ...
Dimensions. 78 cm × 65.3 cm (30 + 3⁄4 in × 25 + 3⁄4 in) Location. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the ...
The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The fresco depicts a congregation of ancient philosophers ...
This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases. [ 1 ] Among these paintings, however, are many widely known and influential works.
List of artists in the Philadelphia Museum of Art handbook of the collections. Schilder-boeck. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects. Roger de Piles' artists from France. Roger de Piles' artists from Germany and the Low Countries.