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- Title: Short Bio of Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
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- (he became Prior there in 1450), but his most famous works were painted
- Many of the frescos are in the friars cells and were intended as aids
- Title: Short Bio of Federico Barocci (c. 1535-1612)
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- rivals were trying to poison him, and the hypersensitive temperament this
- Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Bellini (1430?-1516)
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- painting six or seven new canvases. These, his greatest works, were destroyed
- Title: Short Bio of Hieronymus Bosch
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- torments of hell. During his lifetime Bosch's works were in the inventories
- of noble families of the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and they were
- Title: Short Bio of Dirk Bouts
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- where he was city painter from 1468. His major commissions there were the
- Particularly popular were small devotional images of the
- Title: Short Bio of Marie Bracquemond
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- The paintings of his wife Marie were both a good deal closer to the
- Palais, Geneva) were painted in her own garden. She was a vocal
- Title: Short Bio of Gustave Caillebotte
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- recently, were neglected.
- boulevards were painted from high vantage points and were populated with
- Title: Short Bio of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
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- in rivalry with him, Canaletto began to turn out views which were more
- Title: Short Bio of Alonso Cano (1601-67)
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- His movements were partly dictated by his tempestuous character, for more
- Title: Short Bio of Carracci (1557-1602)
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- (1555-1619), who were prominent figures at the end of the 16th century
- on drawing from the life (all three were outstanding graphic artists) and
- studies were engraved after his death and were used for nearly two centuries
- Bolognese painters, who were one of Ruskin's pet hates and whom he considered
- no thought'. They were saddled with the label eclectic and thought to
- Title: Short Bio of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
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- Her own works, on the occasions when they were shown in various
- mixed exhibitions in the USA, were very favourably received by the
- with an emphasis on gestural significance. Her earlier works were marked
- and her latter days were clouded with bitterness.
- Title: Short Bio of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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- works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many
- Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
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- were produced. He turned to pastels in later life when his eyesight began to
- 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 John Constable (1776-1837)
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- were clouded by despondency.
- were always running after pictures and seeking the truth at second hand'.
- neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation
- oils, but his finished pictures were produced in the studio.
- Title: Short Bio of Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
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- could be accounted for by drawings and prints which were known all over Italy.
- it were actually taking place in the sky above
- and they were highly influential on the development of
- Title: Short Bio of Gustave Courbet (1819-77)
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- Art critics and the public were accustomed to
- Burial at Ornans in 1850. Both were quite unlike the romantic
- Title: Short Bio of Jasper Cropsey
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- Cropsey taught himself to draw. His early drawings were architectural
- Title: Short Bio of Gerard David
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- bland was very popular and his stately compositions were copied again
- and again. Among his followers were
- Title: Short Bio of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
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- 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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- Drawings of London done in 1869-71 were more sober studies of the poorer
- Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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- copies of his works. His paintings were engraved by his pupil and patron,
- Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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- Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt that were wrongly supposed to have
- Title: Short Bio of Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
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- These, however, were returned by Mme du Barry and it seems that taste was
- Title: Short Bio of Art Frahm
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- Many of his works were outstanding examples of the glamour genre. His perfectly coifed, daring decolletage dressed beauties glowed in the midst of romantic soft focus settings.
- Title: Short Bio of Thomas Gainsborough
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- Fitzwilliam, Cambridge). His patrons were the merchants of the town and
- were members of Society, and he developed a free and elegant mode of painting
- the composer wrote that he avoided the company of literary men, who were
- Title: Short Bio of Aert Gelder
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- de Gelder often used colors such as lilac and lemon yellow that were
- Title: Short Bio of Giotto (c. 1267-1337)
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- Giotto lived and worked at a time when people's minds and talents were first
- Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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- atrocities of war. They were not published until 1863, long after Goya's
- Title: Short Bio of Francesco Guardi
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- in poverty. Recognition of his genius came in the wake of Impressionism, when his vibrant and rapidly painted views were seen as
- Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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- pupil Isaac Oliver. These two were head and shoulders above their contemporaries
- Title: Short Bio of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
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- and landscape paintings were done between 1830 and 1840.
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Holbein (1465?-1524)
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- chiefly as a painter of portraits. His services were much in demand. The more
- designed the king's state robes and made drawings that were the basis of all
- Title: Short Bio of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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- The Kandinsky pages were contributed by
- Title: Short Bio of Charles Le (1619-90)
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- Among the most outstanding of his works for the king were the
- Title: Short Bio of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
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- century, the key period of its development, were artists of many
- Title: Short Bio of Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)
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- as early as 1913, but Suprematist paintings were first made public
- Title: Short Bio of Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506)
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- were involved in this work, and his knowledge of the culture of ancient Rome
- were also artists, and both of
- Title: Short Bio of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
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- His subjects were largely domestic or figurative, and a distinct
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Memling (1430?-94)
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- Many of Memling's well-known religious works were painted for the Hospital
- Title: Short Bio of Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
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- the main influences on him were Poussin and Eustache Le Sueur,
- Title: Short Bio of Amedeo Modigliani
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- during his brief career few apart from his fellow artists were aware of his
- Title: Short Bio of Berthe Morisot
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- development of her style. Unlike most of the other impressionists, who were
- Title: Short Bio of Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
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- learned to turn out religious pictures that were sold to small churches in
- Title: Short Bio of Ludovic Piette (1826-77)
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- during a period when his works were almost indistinguishable
- Title: Short Bio of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
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- trouble, his later years were his most prolific. The Parisian and
- Title: Short Bio of Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
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- image. All these characteristics were important for the new American
- Title: Short Bio of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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- oils and pastel. The flower pieces, in particular, were much admired by
- Title: Short Bio of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
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- movement. His early works were typically Impressionist
- fresh colors that were to distinguish his Impressionist work
- Title: Short Bio of Dante Rossetti
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- themes and with elements of mystical symbolism, were
- Title: Short Bio of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
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- with loving attention to detail. He claimed such scenes were inspired by
- his experiences in Mexico, but in fact his sources were illustrated books
- Title: Short Bio of Peter Rubens
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- his most famous assistants were
- years, which were spent largely at his estate, Chateau de Steen.
- Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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- In the 1880s he began to paint landscapes that were overtly
- Title: Short Bio of Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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- were refused by the Salon the next year, so Seurat and several
- Title: Short Bio of Joshua Shaw
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- as well as peasants in what were essentially imaginary compositions.
- Title: Short Bio of Paul Signac
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- palette but applied it in dots that were to be blended by the viewer's eye.
- What Signac called "muddy mixtures" were to be banished from painting and
- Title: Short Bio of Alfred Sisley
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- and was becoming more deeply influenced by the notions which were
- Title: Short Bio of James Tissot
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- Bible were enormously popular, both in book form and when the original
- drawings were exhibited.
- Title: Short Bio of Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
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- his own studio. Before he was 20 print sellers were eagerly buying his
- Title: Short Bio of Leonardo (c.1485-1532)
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- inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time.
- Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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- and Oscar Wilde were among his famous friends.
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