Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1,696) – Italian painter, was born at the Castello di SanPetro, near Venice, studied with Greg. Lazzarino, but eventually formed under the influence of Dzh.-B. Pyatstsetty and in particular through the study of works by Veronese, who then imitated in their numerous wall murals and ceiling lamps. First, before 1750, worked hard [...]
Pablo Picasso (10/25/1881 – 04/08/1973), was born in Malaga. The first painting class was initially from his father, J. Ruiz, and then continued his education in various schools of fine arts: from 1894 to 1895 in La Coruna in 1895 in Barcelona, from 1897 to 1898 years in Madrid. Beginning in 1904, Pablo Picasso, [...]
Theodore Rousseau (04/15/1812 – 22/12/1867), French painter and graphic artist, a leading artist Barbizon school. As an artist, was formed largely on their own. Experienced it influence J. van Ruisdael, John Constable, Jean Michel.
Yaroshenko Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1846 – 1898) – artist – genre painter and portraitist. Military education and promotion, he passionately loved art and he devoted all his spare time and entering in 1878 in the number of members of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, from the time he was with his works constantly and exclusively [...]
Polignot – Greek painter, a native of the island Fazosa, a disciple of his father Aglaofona, about 462 PM, at the invitation of Cimon, arrived in Athens, where he, along with other artists, has been charged with painting the walls Stoa poiklh (see Athens, II, 572) as well as temples Dioscuri and hostel. The first [...]
Rembrandt van Rijn (06.15.1606 – 10.1669) – the great Dutch painter and engraver, the son of a miller Garmen Gerritsen and Nelte Villemsdohter van Rijn was born in Leiden. During the appearance of Rembrandt on in the world of his father were in a flourishing position that allowed him to give his fourth son, a [...]
Le-Nene brothers (Le-Nain), Louis Antoine (died 1648) and Mathieu (died 1677), the French painters who worked in half of the XVII century. Biographical information on them is very scarce, and art critics have not figured out the characteristics that distinguish the work of one of them from the works of another.
They painted mainly [...]
Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille (Corot) (1796 – 1875) – one of the greatest French landscape painters of modern times. Worked first sketches from life under the guidance of Mishalona, and then learning from Bertin, lost a lot of time in the pursuit of academic direction of the artist, until set in 1826, to Italy and started up [...]
Daumier, Henri-Auguste-Hippolyte (1808 – 1879) – French graphic artist and part artist. Compiled by himself in 1840 – 60-ies. notoriety caricatures of the political circumstances, the public and private lives of prominent people and then the French.
Figure he is dry and rough, but they submit to the types and scenes full of life, [...]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25/02/1841 – 17/12/1919), French painter, graphic and sculptor, one of the founders of impressionism. Since 1845 he lived in Paris. From 1854 he painted porcelain, blinds and fans.