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Yves Pires - French sculptor

Tu sei per la mia mente, come cibo per la vita.

Come le piogge di primavera, sono per la terra.

E per goderti in pace, combatto la stessa guerra

che conduce un avaro, per accumular ricchezza.

Prima, orgoglioso di possedere e, subito dopo,

roso dal dubbio, che il tempo gli scippi il tesoro.

Prima, voglioso di restare solo con te,

poi, orgoglioso che il mondo veda il mio piacere.

Alphonse Mucha | Art Nouveau painter

Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century.

He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

Hans Thoma | Glade meadow, 1876

German symbolist painter Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.

He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces.

He entered the Karlsruhe academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career.

Adolf Heinrich-Hansen | Architectural painter

Adolf Heinrich Claus Hansen (1859-1925), known as Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, was a Danish architectural painter.

His father, Heinrich Hansen, was also an architectural painter. Late in his life, he turned to animal painting.

Adolf Heinrich-Hansen was born in Copenhagen, the son of architectural painter and later professor Heinrich Hansen and Margrethe Elisabeth Burmeister.

Dutch Art History and Sitemap

Johannes Vermeer | The Allegory of Painting, 1666 | Art in Detail

Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders.

Earlier painting in the area is covered in Early Netherlandish painting and Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting.

The history of Dutch art is dominated by the Dutch Golden Age painting, mostly of about 1620-1680, when a very distinct style and new types of painting were developed, though still keeping close links with Flemish Baroque painting.