Estate, violino rosso,
nuvola chiara,
un ronzio
di catena montuosa
o di cicala
ti precede,
il cielo
a volta,
liscio, luccicante come
un occhio,
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina | Renaissance painter
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (1489-1536) considered "Spain's most exquisite Renaissance painter" by Elías Tormo was first mentioned in 1575 in Relaciones de los pueblos de España as "licenciado Yáñez" from the village of Almedina.
He also appears in a roster of painters compiled by Hernando de Ávila in his "Art of painting" and included by Diego de Villalta in 1590.
Ambrogio de Predis | Renaissance painter
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (1455-1508) was an Italian Renaissance painter, illuminator and designer of coins active in Milan.
Ambrogio gained a reputation as a portraitist, including as a painter of miniatures, at the court of Ludovico Sforza.
Life
Ambrogio de Predis was born in a family of artists from Lombardy.
Federico Barocci | Baroque / Mannerist painter
Federico Barocci (also written Barozzi) (1535 in Urbino - 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker.
His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio.
He is generally considered the greatest and the most individual painter of his time in central Italy.
Giovanna Fratellini | Baroque painter
Giovanna Fratellini (1666-1731) was a Florentine artist during the Baroque period.
Born in Florence as Giovanna Marrmocchini Cortesi, she married Guiliano Fratellini in 1685 and changed her name to Fratellini.
This well-born woman pastellist was a lady-in-waiting to Vittoria della Rovere, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
Viggo Pedersen | Impressionist / Genre painter
Viggo Christian Frederik Vilhelm Pedersen (1854, Copenhagen - 1926, Roskilde) was a Danish painter who primarily made his mark as a landscape painter.
Education
Viggo Pedersen learned to draw from his father Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen and was then admitted to CV Nielsen's Drawing School and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from September 1871 to spring 1878.
Har traveled abroad in Germany (1873), in Paris (1881) and traveled from there to Switzerland (where Joakim Skovgaard met him) and Italy, which he visited several times since, along with trips to Holland and Germany.
Amelie Lundahl | Genre painter
Helga Amélie Lundahl (26 May 1850 - 20 August 1914) was a Finnish painter.
She was born in Oulu, the youngest of eleven children.
Her mother died when she was three months old and her father, Abraham, a Town Representative (public prosecutor) died when she was eight.
From 1860 to 1862, she attended the "Svenska Privatskolan" in Oulu.
Veronique du Boisrouvray | Pastelliste painter
Self-taught artist, Véronique du Boisrouvray draws for a long time for her own pleasure, in chalk or graphite, the faces of her children.
It is by chance, and late, that she discovers pastel, and with it, color.
This medium will truly revolutionize her work and become a passion that will never leave her.
In his painting priority is given to faces and their expressions.
Albert Birkle | Magic realism painter
Albert Birkle (1900-1986) was a German painter and draftsman.
Albert Birkle was born in Charlottenburg, then an independent city and since 1920 part of Berlin.
His grandfather on his mother's side, Gustav Bregenzer, and his father, Carl Birkle, both were painters, originally from Swabia.
Albert Birkle was trained as a decorative painter in his father's firm.
From 1918 to 1924, he studied at the Hochschule für die bildenden Künste/College of Fine Arts, a predecessor of today's Universität der Künste Berlin.
Gregorio Sciltian | Magic Realism painter
"The only true and supreme purpose of the art of painting has been and will always be that of obtaining the illusion of reality" - Gregorio Sciltian.
Gregorio Sciltian / Գրիգոր Շիլտյան (Nakhicevan, Armenia 1900 - Rome 1985) was an Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist.
Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'œil compositions.
Giuseppe Verdi: "Torniamo all'antico e sarà un progresso"
• Gli artisti veramente superiori giudicano senza pregiudizi di scuole, di nazionalità, di tempo. Se gli artisti del Nord e del Sud hanno tendenze diverse, è bene siano diverse.
• Really superior artists judge without being prejudiced by school, nationality or period. If the artists of north and south exhibit different tendencies, it is good that they are different!
Giovanni Boldini | Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner: "L'uomo si distingue dall'animale in virtù della compassione verso l'animale stesso"
• Joy is not in things; it is in us.
• La gioia non è nelle cose; è in noi.
• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
• L'organo più antico, più vero, più bello della musica, l'origine alla quale solo la nostra musica deve il suo essere, è la voce umana.
• Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
• La musica è il discorso inarticolato del cuore, che non può essere compresso in parole, perché è infinito.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1882 | Musée d'Orsay
Damiano Taurino, 1949 | Figurative sculptor
Italian sculptor Damiano Taurino was born in Galugnano, in the municipality of San Donato di Lecce, the beautiful land of Salento, rich in historical traditions dating back thousands of years to the ancient Greek civilization and messapica (1000 BC).
This land, with its historical and cultural heritage, is able to inculcate in the young Damiano, the secret desire of the model, the ability to extract, from a piece of clay, images and figures lovely.
At age 16 he emigrated to Switzerland, he settled in Horgen-Zurich and spent a period devoted to education and training.
Lytras Nikephoros | Orientalist / Genre painter
Lytras Nikephoros / Λύτρας Νικηφόρος (1832-1904) was a Greek painter, born in Tinos.
He studied painting at the Athens School of Arts (1850-1856) taught by the brothers Philippos and Georgios Margaritis, the monk Agathangelos Triantafyllou, Raffaello Ceccoli and Ludwig Thiersch, whom he also assisted in the iconography of the Russian Church in Athens (1853-1855).
In 1860 after teaching Elementary Graphics at the School of Arts for two years (1856-1858), he left for Munich where first on a scholarship from the Greek government and then with the support of Baron Simon Sinas, he completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, his principal teacher being Karl von Piloty.
Xavier Bueno | Modern painter of Reality
Xavier Bueno (1915-1979) was an Italian painter of Spanish origin.
Xavier Bueno was born in Vera de Bidasoa, son of the writer and journalist Javier Bueno, who was a correspondent in Berlin of the Madrid newspaper ABC.
In 1925 the family settled in Geneva; five years later, Xavier enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts showing a precocious talent.
After a return with his mother to Spain, in Madrid, he attended the Academy of San Fernando and followed a painting course held by Vazquez Diaz.
Matthijs Maris | Romantic / Symbolist painter
Matthias Maris (17 August 1839 - 22 August 1917) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer. He was also known as Matthijs Maris or Thijs.
He initially belonged to the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob and Willem, but his later works deviated more and more from that school into a unique style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.
He was born in The Hague.
At the age of twelve, he registered at the Hague Academy of Art, but did not pass the entrance exam.
Therefore, he took lessons from Isaac Cornelis Elink Sterk, secretary of the academy.
Victor Tardieu | Co-founder of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Indochine
Victor François Tardieu (30 April 1870, Orliénas - 12 June 1937, Hanoi) was a French painter; cofounder of what is now known as the Vietnam University of Fine Arts.
In 1887, he was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon.
After two years there, he transferred to the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied for a year.
Vietnamese Art History and Sitemap
Vietnamese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in Vietnam or by Vietnamese artists.
Vietnamese art has a long and rich history, the earliest examples of which date back as far as the Stone Age around 8,000 BCE.
With the millennium of Chinese domination starting in the 2nd century BC, Vietnamese art undoubtedly absorbed many Chinese influences, which would continue even following independence from China in the 10th century AD.
Le Thi Luu | Impressionist painter
Gustave Courtois | Academic painter
Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (1852-1923) was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art.
Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône, France to an unwed mother who was devoted to him.
Henri Matisse | The Series of the Romanian Blouses
Henri Matisse | Romanian Blouse with Green Sleeves, 1937 | Cincinnati Art Museum
Henri Matisse's 'Romanian Blouse' is an exploration of composition, line, and form.
The movement of broad exuberant brushwork across the flat two-dimensional plane of the canvas emphasizes the energy of the composition and evokes the sitter's personality.
The Cincinnati Art Museum's painting is one of several paintings and drawings on a single theme - female models clothed in a boldly patterned Moroccan robes or embroidered Romanian blouses - that Matisse made in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Henri Matisse | Romanian Blouse with Green Sleeves, 1937 | Cincinnati Art Museum
Lee Lufkin Kaula | Impressionist painter
Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865-1957) was born on December 23, 1865 in Erie, Pennsylvania into an affluent family.
Lee Lufkin’s father was a wealthy lawyer who evidently left his daughter a comfortable income that allowed the painters [Lee and her husband] to concentrate on their work without needing other jobs.
A painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes throughout her career, she first trained in New York with Charles Melville Dewey, the American tonalist painter who had studied in Paris and worked with Carolus-Duran on a ceiling painting at the Louvre.
Hubertus van Hove | Genre / Romantic painter
Hubertus (Huib) van Hove (13 May 1814, in The Hague - 14 November 1865 Antwerp) was a Dutch painter, the son of Bartholomeus van Hove (1790-1880) and a teacher of some artists who became members of the Hague School.
Hubertus or Huib van Hove was taught painting not only by his father, but also by Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen.
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