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• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Altdorfer
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  • His training is unknown, but his early work was influenced by Cranach
  • pure landscape paintings (without any figures) by him are known (National
  • Regensburg. No architectural work by him is known, but his interest in
  • are demonstrated by his Birth of the Virgin (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
• Title: Short Bio of Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
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  • illuminator, and his early paintings are strongly influenced by
  • monastry which was taken over by his Order in 1436. He and his
  • the name by which he was always known, and it was certainly used as
  • but his beatification was not made official by the Vatican until 1984.
• Title: Short Bio of Zacharie Astruc (1833-1907)
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  • (1879; Musée d'Orsay), and was painted by
  • by Manet (1866; Kunsthalle, Bremen).
  • Astruc himself executed a bust of Manet and by the 1880s
• Title: Short Bio of Dirck Baburen
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  • where his style became strongly influenced by Caravaggio.
  • This picture is seen in the background of two paintings by Vermeer,
• Title: Short Bio of Jacopo Bassano (1553-1613)
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  • by throwing himself out of a window) and Leandro both acquired some distinction
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Bellini (1430?-1516)
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  • maturity but an individual style. He achieved a certain richness by layering
  • by fire in 1577.
• Title: Short Bio of Abraham Beyeren
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  • in which he was rivalled only by Kalf, gave him ever greater opportunity
• Title: Short Bio of Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Moriano Filipepi, 1444/5-1510)
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  • 19th century by a group of artists in England known as the Pre-Raphaelites.
• Title: Short Bio of François Boucher (1703-1770)
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  • with the painter François Le Moyne but was most influenced by the
  • Works. His success was encouraged by his patron, Marquise de
• Title: Short Bio of Dirk Bouts
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  • any model. His style was highly influential and was continued by his two
• Title: Short Bio of Marie Bracquemond
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  • Le jour et la nuit, backed by
• Title: Short Bio of Ford Brown
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  • Birmingham, 1855) was inspired by the departure of Woolner, the Pre-Raphaelite
  • craftsmanship and brilliant coloring, but is somewhat swamped by its social
• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69)
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  • painter of the 16th century, is by far the most important member of the
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Burgkmair
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  • in his native Augsburg by 1498. Before then he is presumed to have been
• Title: Short Bio of Sir Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
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  • Birmingham and educated at the University of Oxford. Trained by the
  • painting and design. His paintings, inspired by medieval, classical,
  • led by his Oxford friend the poet and artist William Morris. For
• Title: Short Bio of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89)
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  • Salon des Refuses, and was bought by the emperor Napoleon III, who gave
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Caillebotte
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  • He was an engineer by profession, but also attended the Ecole des
• Title: Short Bio of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
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  • was influenced by the work of
  • By 1723 he was painting dramatic and picturesque views of Venice, marked
  • by strong contrasts of light and shade and free handling, this phase of
• Title: Short Bio of Alonso Cano (1601-67)
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  • His movements were partly dictated by his tempestuous character, for more
  • painter to the Count-Duke Olivares and was employed by Philip IV to
• Title: Short Bio of Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610)
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  • As an adult he would become known by the name of his birthplace. Orphaned at
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine Caron
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  • painting. His style is characterized most obviously by extremely elongated,
  • of the works attributed to him may be by other hands, however, for French
• Title: Short Bio of Carracci (1557-1602)
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  • who was by far the greatest artist of the family, was called to Rome by
  • by Celestial love'. Although the ceiling is rich in the interplay of various
  • in which he was followed by Domenichino (his favorite pupil), Claude,
  • overcome by melancholia and gave up painting almost entirely after 1606.
  • academy by himself after his cousins had gone to Rome. His work is unever
• Title: Short Bio of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
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  • both by providing direct financial help and by promoting the works
  • By persuading him to buy works by
  • their important collection of works by Impressionists and other
  • mixed exhibitions in the USA, were very favourably received by the
  • by a certain lyrical effulgence and gentle, golden lighting, but by
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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  • art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
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  • Largely self-taught, he was strongly influenced by 17th-century Low Country
  • Characterized by subdued colors and
  • He rendered forms by means of light by using thick, layered brushstrokes and
  • thin, luminous glazes. Called the grand magician by critics, he achieved a
  • mastery in these areas unequaled by any other 18th-century painter.
• Title: Short Bio of Théodore Chassériau (1819-56)
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  • these were almost completely destroyed by fire. There are other examples
• Title: Short Bio of Petrus Christus
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  • He is first documented at Bruges in 1444, and he is thought by some
  • and to have completed some of the works left unfinished by the master at
  • It is certainly true that he was overwhelmingly influenced by van Eyck,
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Cima
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  • painter, named after the town of his birth, and active mainly in nearby
• Title: Short Bio of John Constable (1776-1837)
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  • grudgingly made a full Academician, elected by a majority of only
  • won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 and Constable was admired by
  • were clouded by despondency.
• Title: Short Bio of John Copley (1738-1815)
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  • by both Sir Joshua Reynolds and by the transported American artist
• Title: Short Bio of Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
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  • that master's work in Mantua, and he was influenced in these works also by
  • could be accounted for by drawings and prints which were known all over Italy.
  • He was probably in Parma, the scene of his greatest activity, by 1518.
  • and symbols of the hunt. The S. Paolo ceiling was followed by two dome
  • conception — already used by Mantegna — of depicting a scene as though
• Title: Short Bio of Piero Cosimo
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  • no signed, documented, or dated works by him, and reconstruction of his
  • inventions, inhabited by fauns, centaurs, and primitive men. There is sometimes
  • by his pupil Andrea del Sarto.
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Courbet (1819-77)
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  • soon decided to study painting and learned by copying the pictures of master
  • was accepted by the Salon, an annual public exhibition of art
  • sponsored by the influential Royal Academy.
  • followed by
• Title: Short Bio of Edward d'Ancona
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  • By 1960, d'Ancona had moved into the calendar art field. Instead of doing pin-ups and glamour images, however, he specialized in pictures on the theme of safety in which wholesorne policemen helped children across the street in suburban settings that came straight out of Norman Rockwell.
• Title: Short Bio of Gerard David
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  • The Judgement of Cabyses
• Title: Short Bio of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
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  • later be used by the impressionists. His next Salon entry was in 1824:
  • pictured an incident in which 20,000 Greeks were killed by Turks on the
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Doré (1832-83)
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  • he employed more than forty blockcutters. His work is characterized by
• Title: Short Bio of Dosso Dossi
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  • is not called ‘Dosso Dossi’ until the 18th century). By 1514 he was in
  • for the part played in his work by landscape, in which he continues the
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Driben
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  • by 1935 he was producing covers for Snappy, Pep, New York Nights, French
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Eakins
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  • Eakins is regarded by most critics as the outstanding American painter
  • of the 19th century and by many as the greatest his country has yet
• Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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  • copies of his works. His paintings were engraved by his pupil and patron,
  • by which he has deprived the world of the most beautiful things'; he also
  • inspired by Elsheimer's masterpiece, and his influence is apparent in the
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Eyck
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  • (1432). Hubert van Eyck is thought by some
• Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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  • The hypothesis that the Master of Flémalle's paintings are early works by
  • seems likely that his earliest works antedate any surviving picture by
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
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  • canvases by which he is chiefly known
  • These, however, were returned by Mme du Barry and it seems that taste was
  • he was ruined by the Revolution and died in poverty.
• Title: Short Bio of Caspar Friedrich
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  • meanings, clues to which are provided either by the artist's writings or
  • painter also intended the composition to represent both the church shaken by
• Title: Short Bio of Pearl Frush
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  • and New York. By this time her family had moved to Chicago, where she joined
  • work and working for the Sundblom, Johnson and White Studio. By 1943 she
• Title: Short Bio of Henry Fuseli
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  • Ambassador in Berlin, who had been impressed by his drawings. Reynolds
  • in 1799 he followed this example by opening a Milton Gallery in Pall Mall
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Gainsborough
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  • he is sometimes influenced by Rubens. But he was
  • and wrote of ‘all those odd scratches and marks’ that ‘by a kind of magic,
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  • for example, the acceptance by the state of the Caillebotte
• Title: Short Bio of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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  • This was commissioned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, a partner in the Medici bank,
• Title: Short Bio of Luca Giordano
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  • he was called to Spain by Charles II and stayed there for 10 years, painting
• Title: Short Bio of Giotto (c. 1267-1337)
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  • in Florence is a series of his Biblical scenes. Among the bystanders in the
  • Croce is adorned by Giotto murals depicting the life of St. Francis.
• Title: Short Bio of Hugo Goes
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  • An account of his illness by Gaspar Ofhuys, a monk at the priory, survives;
  • by Erwin Panofsky ‘a masterpiece of clinical accuracy and sanctimonious
  • No paintings by Hugo are signed and his only securely documented work
  • Altarpiece (Uffizi, Florence, c.1475-76). This was commissioned by
• Title: Short Bio of Nuño Gonçalves
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  • 1463 as court painter to Alfonso V (1437-81). No works certainly by his
• Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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  • also influenced by neoclassicism, which was gaining favor over the rococo
  • by his deafness, he became increasingly occupied with the fantasies and
  • serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new king. He was
• Title: Short Bio of El Greco (1541-1614)
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  • by Kres (Cretan).
  • Little is known of his youth, and only a few works survive by him in
  • the Byzantine tradition of icon painting, notably the recently discovered
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  • and melodramatic genre scenes. His work was praised by Diderot as ‘morality
  • Reproaching Caracalla (Louvre, 1769) was rejected by the Salon, causing
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine-Jean Gros
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  • (although he painted excellent portraits), and haunted by a sense of failure
• Title: Short Bio of Matthias Grünewald (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
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  • by Dürer.
  • blindfolded and being beaten by a band of grotesque men. The figures are
• Title: Short Bio of Francesco Guardi
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  • breathtaking freedom, are by Francesco or Gianantonio (there is dispute
  • also over the dating), but if they are indeed by the latter, he too must
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Heem
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  • traditions and he is claimed by both schools. He came from a large family
• Title: Short Bio of Velino Shije Herrera
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  • Santa Fe and was started in art by Dr. Edgar L. Hewett. He began painting about
  • oriole (red bird) and bad egg. This is the name by which he signed paintings.
• Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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  • he was appointed Court Miniaturist and Goldsmith by Elizabeth I, and he
  • as the leading miniaturist in the country was challenged by his former
• Title: Short Bio of David Hockney (1937- )
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  • Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved international success by
  • as by far the best-known British artist of his generation.
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Holbein (1465?-1524)
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  • kinds of items used by the royal household, from buttons to bridles to
• Title: Short Bio of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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  • The Kandinsky pages were contributed by
• Title: Short Bio of Ron Kitaj
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  • After a visit to Paris in 1975, he was inspired by
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Klee
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  • enthusiastically to Early Christian and Byzantine art.
  • Louis Molliet in 1914. He was so overwhelmed by the intense light there that
  • dismissed by the Nazis, who termed his work "degenerate." In 1933, Klee went
  • killed him. The late works, characterized by heavy black lines, are often
• Title: Short Bio of Laurent de La Hire
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  • whose best work is marked by gravity, simplicity, and dignity.
• Title: Short Bio of Nicolas Largillière (1656-1746)
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  • pioneer by those 18th-century artists who followed the later, more
• Title: Short Bio of Charles Le (1619-90)
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  • decorative objects commissioned by the French government for three
• Title: Short Bio of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
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  • Lorrain, Claude, byname of Claude Gelee
  • of that beauty is governed by classical concepts, and the landscape
• Title: Short Bio of Earl MacPherson
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  • of then-President Herbet Hoover's grandchildren. By the late 1930's
  • Company in 1941 (Going Places, 1941, used again by Lucky Strike Cigarettes
  • MacPherson was lured away from Brown & Bigelow in 1945 by Shaw-Barton,
• Title: Short Bio of Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)
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  • manner, but by 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive
• Title: Short Bio of Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506)
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  • years old he was adopted by Francesco Squarcione, an art teacher in Padua.
  • profit by exploiting his talent.
• Title: Short Bio of Simone Martini (circa 1280-1344)
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  • three-dimensional space developed by the Sienese master Duccio di
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
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  • The art of our century has been dominated by two men: Henri Matisse and
  • by temperament and it was Picasso who initially made the greater splash.
  • Matisse's art has an astonishing force and lives by innate right in a
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
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  • and this was praised by Théophile Gautier and bought by
  • who was also enthralled by his subject-matter, with its social
  • implications. Millet's career was greatly helped by Durand-Ruel.
• Title: Short Bio of Amedeo Modigliani
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  • by strong linear rhythms, simple elongated forms, and verticality.
• Title: Short Bio of Piet Mondrian
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  • worked and reworked, built layer by layer toward an equilibrium of form,
• Title: Short Bio of Earl Moran
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  • His work can often be recognised by his heavy use of light and shadow.
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
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  • by his master's exotic
• Title: Short Bio of Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
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  • In Madrid, Murillo would also have seen paintings by the
  • later works are nearly all serene religious compositions, marked by splendid
• Title: Short Bio of GeorgePetty
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  • By the early 20's Petty was working as a freelance artist, painting
  • that Petty opened his first studio in Chicago, by which time his client list
• Title: Short Bio of Piero (1420?-92)
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  • marked by their simple serenity and clarity. He was also interested in
  • By 1439 Piero was working with Domenico Veneziano on frescoes for the
• Title: Short Bio of Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
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  • influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters
  • and by certain aspects of
  • By the mid 1940s he was painting in a completely abstract manner,
  • by an admixture of ‘sand, broken glass or other foreign matter'.
  • of automatism that it was supposed by artists and critics alike to result
• Title: Short Bio of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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  • influenced by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. He remained virtually
  • oils and pastel. The flower pieces, in particular, were much admired by
  • by the end of his life, although still a very private person.
• Title: Short Bio of Rembrandt (1606-69)
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  • paintings are characterized by luxuriant brushwork, rich colour, and a
• Title: Short Bio of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
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  • snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the
  • by the great
  • spot called La Grenouillère done in 1869 (an example by Renoir is in
  • By this time Renoir had 'travelled as far as Impressionism could
  • (by which time he was world-famous) he lived in the warmth of the south
  • of France. The rheumatism eventually crippled him (by 1912 he was
• Title: Short Bio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
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  • influence on 20th-century sculpture. His works are distinguished by their
• Title: Short Bio of Dante Rossetti
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  • Rossetti sank into a morbid state, possibly induced by his disinterment
  • (1869) of the manuscript poems he had buried with his wife and by savage
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
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  • a product of his imagination. He took up painting as a hobby and
  • with loving attention to detail. He claimed such scenes were inspired by
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Rubens
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  • By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting
  • his early training as an artist and a courtier. By the age of 21 he was a
  • by injecting into his works a lusty exuberance and almost frenetic energy.
  • works produced by this studio varied considerably from work to work. Among
  • Rubens's phenomenal productivity was interrupted from time to time by
  • diplomatic duties given him by his royal patrons, Archduke Ferdinand and
• Title: Short Bio of Donald Rust
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  • Donald Rust was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1932. He began drawing and painting at a very early age and has never had the desire to be anything but a serious artist. His early work was directly influenced by his grandfather, Emil Rust, Gil Elvgren, Bob Toombs, and Norman Rockwell. However, he feels there has been no one single influence in his wildlife art and insists that all wildlife artists have affected his style.
  • Rust has produced more than 14,000 paintings and has 2,000 originals registered by owners with the National Museum and Gallery Registration Association (an NMGRA record!).
• Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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  • by way of
• Title: Short Bio of Egon Schiele
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  • fulfilled by sexuality. At first strongly influenced by Klimt, whom he met
• Title: Short Bio of Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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  • Young Seurat was strongly influenced by
  • were refused by the Salon the next year, so Seurat and several
  • centerpiece of an exhibition in 1886. By then Seurat was spending his winters
• Title: Short Bio of Joshua Shaw
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  • basically untouched by industrialization. Its glorification of a
  • is clearly evident in Landscape with Cattle and other works by the
  • paintings by Shaw's older contemporaries — Julius Caesar Ibbetson, Philip
  • by these artists but also those developed by seventeenth-century Dutch
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Signac
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  • training; he taught himself to paint by studying the works of
  • palette but applied it in dots that were to be blended by the viewer's eye.
  • replaced by luminous, intense colors. Many of Signac's works are landscapes,
  • inspired by the bright sunlight of southern France. He also painted some
  • Independants (1908-34), Signac encouraged younger artists by exhibiting the
• Title: Short Bio of Alfred Sisley
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  • at this time was deeply influenced by
  • By this time, however, he had started to frequent the Café Guerbois,
  • and was becoming more deeply influenced by the notions which were
  • some time in London and was introduced to Durand-Ruel by
  • and 1882. His work had by this time achieved complete independance
  • was bought by
• Title: Short Bio of Yves Tanguy (1900-55)
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  • seeing pictures by
• Title: Short Bio of Dorothea Tanning
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  • learned to paint, she claimed, by visiting art museums.
• Title: Short Bio of James Tissot
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  • His pictures are distinguished most obviously by his love of painting
• Title: Short Bio of Jesse Trevino
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  • murals and his large photorealistic style paintings. His nine-story by
• Title: Short Bio of Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
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  • was the extent of his education except for the study of art. By the age of 13
  • paintings was exhibited at the Royal Academy. By the time he was 18 he had
• Title: Short Bio of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
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  • bought many paintings — by
  • of court notables that rank with the portraits painted by Titian and
  • development of art. Others who have been noticeably influenced by him are
• Title: Short Bio of Jim Warren
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  • 1978: Commissioned by jazz greats Billy Cobham and George Duke to paint first album cover.
• Title: Short Bio of John Waterhouse (1849-1917)
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  • romantic style. In approach he was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites,
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
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  • In 1702 he traveled to Paris, where he supported himself by turning out
  • scenes from the life of Marie de’ Medici painted in the early 1600s by the
  • Watteau returned to Paris and in 1715 was befriended by Pierre Crozat, a
  • By 1719 Watteau was suffering from tuberculosis. That year he traveled to
• Title: Short Bio of Benjamin West (1738-1820,)
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  • historical painter to the king with an annual allowance of 1,000 pounds. By
• Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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  • He was a laborious and self-critical worker, but this is belied by
  • was bought by the Corporation of Glasgow in 1891 for 1,000 guineas and
  • (1871), was bought by the French state (it is now in the Musée d'Orsay,
• Title: Short Bio of Joseph Wright
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  • byname WRIGHT OF DERBY (b. Sept. 3, 1734, Derby, Derbyshire,
  • Eng. — d. Aug. 29, 1797, Derby), English painter who was a pioneer in
  • Wright was trained as a portrait painter by Thomas Hudson in the
  • 1750s. Wright's home was Derby, one of the great centres of the birth
  • of the Industrial Revolution, and his depictions of scenes lit by
  • science. His pictures of technological subjects, partly inspired by