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Michelangelo Buonarroti | High Renaissance | Sculpture
Michelangelo, in full Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (born March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]-died February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States) Italian Renaissance sculptor,...
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Pontormo | Mannerist painter
Jacopo da Pontormo*, original name Jacopo Carrucci (born May 24, 1494, Pontormo, near Empoli, Republic of Florence [Italy]-buried Jan. 2, 1557, Florence) Florentine painter* who broke away from High...
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Pontormo | Sacra famiglia, 1515 | Art in Detail
Jacopo Carucci* (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as simply Pontormo*, was not only an painter but also an sculptor from the Florentine School.To him was attributed: The Holy Family,...
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Rosso Fiorentino | Musician Angel, 1522 | Art in Detail
Playing putto /Musical Angel is a fragment of a lost altarpiece which probably depicted the Madonna and Child with Saints.This little work belonging to the period of maturity of the artist.In 1605 the...
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Rosso Fiorentino | Mannerist painter
Giorgio Vasari* | Ritratto di Rosso Fiorentino*, 1572 ca., FirenzeItalian painter* and decorator, Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540)*, original name Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, was an exponent of the...
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Rosso Fiorentino | Pietà, 1538-1540 | Musée du Louvre
This is the only easel painting that can be dated with certainty to Rosso's* stay in France in 1530-40.The cushions beneath Christ's body bear the blue alerions on an orange background of the coat of...
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Tenaya Sims | Figurative painter
Tenaya Sims received a BFA in painting and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.After working several years as a graphic artist in the video games industry for Activision,...
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Odilon Redon | Portrait of Marie Botkine, 1900 | Art in Detail
Portrait of Marie BotkineAutor:Odilon Redon (1840-1916)*Date: 1900Style: SymbolismGenre: PortraitMedia: Pastel, paperDimensions: 48 x 64 cmLocation: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
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Odilon Redon | Apollo's Chariot, 1905-1916 | The Series
In 1878 Redon*, in a study of Delacroix*, praised that artist's ceiling in the Louvre showing the Chariot of Apollo, and in the same year he noted in his journal his admiration for a painting of...
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Odilon Redon | Hommage a Goya, 1885 | The series
Title: Hommage a Goya*Autor:Odilon Redon (1840-1916)*Date: 1885Style: SymbolismGenre: Mythological paintingMedia: Oil on cardboard, mounted on canvasLocation: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection,...
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Pablo Picasso | Cubist / Surrealist painter | Part. 1
This is part 2 of 4-part post on the works of Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter*, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer.For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:Pablo Picasso |...
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Pablo Picasso | Cubist / Surrealist painter | Part. 2
This is part 3 of 4-part post on the works of Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter*, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer.For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:Pablo Picasso |...
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Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter
Rafał Olbiński is a Polish-born illustrator, painter and educator, living in the United States.Olbiński graduated from the architecture program of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1969.Olbiński...
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Rosanne Pomerleau, 1958 | Figurative painter
Born in Ascot Corner.Training: Self-taught painter.Achievements: Solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States.Honours: Prize of Excellence in 1986, silver medal in watercolour and Prize...
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Ricardo Celma, 1975 | Art Nouveau style painter
Ricardo Celma was born in Buenos Aires. His artistic vocation showed up at the early age of 5 when he started attending to an art workshop and he continued to do so for 20 years.He was taught by Susana...
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Donatello | The marble David, 1409
Donatello*, in his early twenties, was commissioned to carve a statue of David in 1408, to top one of the buttresses of Florence Cathedral, though it was never to be placed there. Nanni di Banco was...
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Loggia dei Lanzi, 1380 | Open-air museum in Florence
In the Piazza della Signoria, adjoining the Uffizi Palace, there is a masterpiece of Medieval architecture: the Loggia della Signoria, built in about 1380, to host public ceremonies and assemblies,...
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Leonardo da Vinci | De' vari accidenti e movimenti dell'uomo e proporzione di...
Trattato della Pittura* - Primo volume - Parte terza259. Delle mutazioni delle misure dell'uomo pel movimento delle membra a diversi aspetti.Variansi le misure dell'uomo in ciascun membro, piegando...
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Angelo Batti, 1933 | Figurative painter
Italian painter* Angelo Batti, was born in Sora -Frosinone in 1933. After art school, he attended the studio dell'acquerellista German, John Brasch, graduated from the Academy of Berlin. Knowledge with...
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The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist / Plein Air painters | Part. 3
Mikhail (1969) and Inessa Garmash (1972) - Husband and Wife Team - Romantic Impressionists. For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Garmashs' see:Michael and Inessa Garmash |...
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