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| Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Alessandro_Algardi | |
| Andrea Andreani Andrea Andreani (1540-1623) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.Born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 (Brulliot says 1560) and died at Rome in 1623. His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino and Titian. Andrea_Andreani | |
| Conservation-restoration Conservation-restoration, also referred to as Conservation, is a profession devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care. All of this work is supported by research and education. Conservation-restoration | |
| Claude Monet Claude Monet (French ) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. Claude_Monet | |
| Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He was the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting, noted for his intensely emotional canvases and dramatic use of lighting. Caravaggio | |
| Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon_Chardin | |
| Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Camille_Pissarro | |
| Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (), 23 January 1832 painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art. Édouard_Manet | |
| Fra Angelico Fra Angelico (c. 1395 February 18 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole). In Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, written prior to 1555, he was already known as Fra Giovanni Angelico (Brother Giovanni the Angelic One). Fra_Angelico | |
| Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and founder of the Futurist movement. Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti | |
| Gian Lorenzo Bernini Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (December 7, 1598 Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th Century Rome. Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini | |
| Great Britain Talk:Great_Britain | |
| Jacopo Amigoni Jacopo Amigoni (also named Giacomo Amiconi, 1682 – 1752) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand. Jacopo_Amigoni | |
| Kraków Kraków (pronounced ; in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow, ( listen)) is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, and is a popular tourist location, containing a World Heritage Site in the historic centre. Situated on the Vistula river () in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków | |
| Leda and the Swan Leda and the Swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. Leda_and_the_Swan | |
| Mannerism Talk:Mannerism | |
| History of Mexico Mexico is a country in North America and the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. It also has the largest number of Native American language speakers on the continent (the majority speaking Nahuatl, Mayan, Mixtec and Zapotec). For thousands of years, what is now known as Mexico was a land of hunter-gatherers. History_of_Mexico | |
| Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Pablo_Picasso | |
| Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne (; 19 January 1839 artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed. Paul_Cézanne | |
| Saint A saint (from the Latin sanctus) is a human being who is believed to have been 'called' to holiness or has, consciously or unconsciously, fulfilled the criteria set for sainthood by a religious institution. Saint | |
| South Holland South Holland (Dutch:province situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam. South_Holland | |
| Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. Vincent_van_Gogh | |
| Thomas Becket Thomas Becket (1118 29 December 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to his death. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II of England over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas_Becket | |
| Bill Viola Contributions/58.107.146.199 (talk) 12Contributions/58.107.146.199 (talk) 12Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. Viola is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic sound and image technology.Bill Viola was born on January 25, 1951 and grew up in Queens, New York, and Westbury, New York. Bill_Viola | |
| Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. Salvador_Dalí | |
| Contrapposto Contrapposto is an Italian term meaning "counterpoise" used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. It can also encompass the tension as a figure changes from resting on a given leg to walking or running upon it (so-called ponderation). Contrapposto is less emphasized than the more sinuous S Curve. Contrapposto | |
| Johannes Vermeer Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized in Delft as Joannis on October 31 1632, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on December 16 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Johannes_Vermeer | |
| Raphael Raphael Sanzio (Italian:Raffaello), (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520) usually known by his first name alone, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains. Raphael | |
| Leiden Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants. It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes (Kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of Leiden. Leiden | |
| Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres () (29 August 1780French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres' portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix. Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres | |
| Battle of Cold Harbor The Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified troops of Confederate Gen. Battle_of_Cold_Harbor | |
| Penelope In Homer's Odyssey, Penelópē (Πηνελόπεια/Πηνελόπη) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and so is eventually rejoined with him. Penelope | |
| Hans von Kulmbach Artist Hans von Kulmbach (real name Hans Suess or Hans Süß) was born around 1480 in Kulmbach, Franconia and died previous to Dec. 3, 1522 in Nuremberg. Hans von Kulmbach was the artist who created the Kraków St. John's Altar. Albrecht Dürer and after Dürer retired from painting altarpieces in 1510 Kulmbach took over most of his commissions. Hans_von_Kulmbach | |
| Baroque painting Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with Absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival, but the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states throughout Western Europe underscores its widespread popularity.Most important and major painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century, and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque painting. Baroque_painting | |
| Adolf Loos Adolf_Loos | |
| Taddeo Zuccari Taddeo Zuccaro or Zuccari (september 1 1529 - September 2 1566), was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school. Taddeo_Zuccari | |
| Federico Zuccari Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro (c. 1542/1543 - July 20 1609), was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. Federico_Zuccari | |
| Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. modern art. Henri_Matisse | |
| Man Ray Man_Ray | |
| Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (IPA:Jewish Belarusian artist, born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) and naturalized French in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He forged a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Marc_Chagall | |
| Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. Edgar_Degas | |
| David Tudor David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. David_Tudor | |
| Massacre of the Innocents Massacre of the Innocents is an episode of mass infanticide by the King of Judea, Herod the Great, that appears in the Gospel of Matthew . The author, traditionally believed to be Matthew the Evangelist, reports that King Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the village of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi. Massacre_of_the_Innocents | |
| Topographic map Topographic_map | |
| In the Land of the Head Hunters In the Land of the Head Hunters (also called In the Land of the War Canoes) is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. In_the_Land_of_the_Head_Hunters | |
| Alice Prin Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953), was a French artists' model, nightclub singer, actress and painter. Her chosen name was simply Kiki, but she was also referred to as la Reine de Montparnasse ("the Queen of Montparnasse") and Kiki de Montparnasse ("Kiki of Montparnasse"). She flourished in, and helped define, the 1920s liberated culture of Paris. In 1989, biographers Billy Klüver and Julie Martin called her "one of the century's first truly independent women." Alice_Prin | |
| Polyxena For the Christian Saint, please see Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and RebeccaPolyxena (), Greek Πολυξένη, was known to be a beautiful Trojan princess from Greek mythology. She is the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. She is considered the Trojan version of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Polyxena | |
| Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California Van Nuys () is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. The TV show Beverly Hills 90210 was filmed on a set in Van Nuys. Van_Nuys,_Los_Angeles,_California | |
| Plumas County, California Plumas_County,_California | |
| Vertumnus In Roman mythology, Vertumnus — also Vortumnus or Vertimnus — is the god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will; using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiv), he tricked Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman and gaining entry to her orchard, then using a narrative warning of the dangers of rejecting a suitor (the embedded tale of Iphis and Anaxarete) to seduce her. Vertumnus |
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