Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings.
1 Artists and architects. 2 Mathematicians. 3 Writers. 4 Philosophers. ... the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the ...
Spanish Renaissance painters (3 C, 35 P) M. Mannerist painters (8 C, 9 P) N. Netherlandish Renaissance painters (3 C, 3 P) T. Trecento painters (73 P)
Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German visual artist; Charles Ricketts (1866–1931), Swiss-born English painter, illustrator and typographer; Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), French painter; Anne Rigney (born 1957), Irish visual artist and sculptor; Bridget Riley (born 1931), English op art painter; Penny Rimbaud (born 1943), English painter, poet ...
Washington Allston ARA (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color.
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is a 2003 book by the political scientist Charles Murray. Surveying outstanding contributions to the Arts and Sciences from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century.
But in the later 18th century two U.S. artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, became the most successful painters in London of history painting, then regarded as the highest form of art, giving the first sign of an emerging force in Western art. American artists who remained at home became increasingly skilled, although there was ...