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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 ...
William B. Schade was born in Albany, New York in 1943 and was educated at Vincentian Institute and Christian Brothers Academy. [2] He had an undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale [3] and graduate degrees from the State University of New York at Albany (M.A. in printmaking) and the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA in printmaking, 1973).
Kay's portraits were collected by Hugh Paton and published under the title A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes (Edinburgh, 2 vols. 4to, 1838; 8vo ed., 4 vols., 1842; new 4to ed., with additional plates, 2 vols., 1877), forming a unique record of the ...
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 first edition of the publication was released by the American Federation of Arts in 1940 under the title ' Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists. [4] It contained a Preface, Abbreviations, Biographies, Obituaries, and a Classified Geographical Index.
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.
(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.
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.