Canadian Art History and Sitemap

Canadian art refers to the visual (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as plastic arts (such as sculpture) originating from the geographical area of contemporary Canada.

Art in Canada is marked by thousands of years of habitation by First Nations Peoples followed by waves of immigration which included artists of European origins and subsequently by artists with heritage from countries all around the world.

The nature of Canadian art reflects these diverse origins, as artists have taken their traditions and adapted these influences to reflect the reality of their lives in Canada.

James Wiens | Abstract painter

Pavlos Samios | Greek romance

Παύλος Σάμιος - Pavlos Samios (1948-2021) was born in Athens. At an early age, he started painting and drawing by helping his father with his shoe workshop.

He became fond of religious painting that attracted his interest since his childhood and worked in Dionysios Karoussos icon painting workshop until the age of eighteen. At the same time, he attended classes on drawing in Panos Sarafianos workshop whereupon he was accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Dietz Edzard (1893-1963)

Dietz (Dietrich Hermann) Edzard (1893-1963) was born in Bremen.

From 1911, he studied painting at Max Beckmann in Berlin, and worked in the Netherlands thereafter.

In 1927, he moved to France, and in 1929 the first exhibition of his work took place in Paris at the Jeu de Paume, a museum exclusively devoted to Impressionist masters. He got married to the artist Suzanne Eisendieck (1908-1998) in 1938.

During the Second World War, he was captured in the detention and deportation camp Les Milles.

His works are held by the collections of international art museums, and by American and Canadian private collections.

Guiding themes of his creativity are the circus and the theatre.

Hugo Charlemont | Pittore Impressionista di genere

Hugo Charlemont (1850-1939) è stato un pittore Austriaco, nato a Jemnice, Moriva. Era il figlio del pittore miniaturista Matthias Adolf Charlemont ed il fratello dei pittori Eduard Charlemont (1848-1906) e Theodor Charlemont (1859-1938).

Anche la figlia di Hugo Charlemont Lilly era un’artista.

Dal 1873 ha studiato arte all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Vienna sotto Eduard von Lichtenfels.

17th century Artists | Sitemap

The 17th century was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700, in the Gregorian calendar.

It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.

The greatest military conflicts were the Thirty Years' War, the Great Turkish War, and the Dutch-Portuguese War.

It was during this period also that European colonization of the Americas began in earnest, including the exploitation of the silver deposits, which resulted in bouts of inflation as wealth was drawn into Europe.

La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi /The fountain of the four rivers, 1651