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Architectural paintings, and the related vedute or cityscapes, were especially popular in 18th century Italy. Another genre closely related to architectural painting proper were the capriccios, fantasies set in and focusing on an imaginary architecture. Dirck van Delen, A family beside the tomb of Willem I in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, 1645 ...
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) 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 literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...
The emphatically classical church façade of Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (1578–90) was designed by the influential Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.. During the Italian Renaissance and with the demise of Gothic style, major efforts were made by architects such as Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola to revive the language of architecture of first and ...
Image credits: culturaltutor Frederic Edwin Church's magnificent painting El Khasné, Petra (1874) depicts the temple in the historical city of Petra, Jordan.Church was an American landscape ...
Actually: ‘The painting in the great hall of the Kloveniers Doelen in which the young Lord of Purmerland [Frans Banninck Cocq] as Captain, gives the order to his Lieutenant, the Lord of Vlaerdingen [Willem van Ruytenburgh] to march off his Company of Citizens’, as the painting is called in the family album of Frans Banninck Cocq.
Image credits: Classic Art Memes (Humor) Currently, the ‘Classic Art Memes (Humor)’ project has 440.6k members from all over the globe. Originally, the group was created on Facebook nearly 3 ...
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Image credits: classicaldamn French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp is another great artist who had a pretty prominent funny bone. The quote "Humor is the only reason to live" is attributed to ...