Hermann Seeger (1857-1945) | Genre painter
Hermann Seeger was a German genre and landscape painter. Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Seeger was born as the son of master tailor Carl Seeger and his wife Henriette, born Meyer, on...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci | Come si deve figurare una battaglia
Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitolo 145Il Testo IntegraleFarai prima il fumo dell'artiglieria mischiato infra l'aria insieme con la polvere mossa dal movimento de' cavalli de'...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci | Del figurare le grandezze delle cose dipinte
Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 146-168Il Testo IntegraleIndice146. Del modo di condurre in pittura le cose lontane.147. Come l'aria si deve far piú chiara quanto piú la fai finire...
View ArticleDaniel Del Orfano | Romantic Cityscapes
Daniel Dell'Orfano is an American painter, known for working in the Romantic Figurative style.Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Daniel Del Orfano decided to stay close to his roots and attend...
View ArticleSalvador Dali | Drawing
Drawing is perhaps one of the most natural and rudimentary activities we undertake as humans. As soon as we get our hands on something that leaves a mark, we begin to draw.In art, it is considered a...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci | Come il buon pittore ha da dipingere due cose, l'uomo e...
Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 169-185Il Testo IntegraleIndice169. Del modo d'imparar bene a comporre insieme le figure nelle istorie.170. Del porre prima una figura...
View ArticleEugene de Blaas | Pittore di genere
De Blaas, Eugenio - Nacque ad Albano (Roma) il 24 luglio 1843 dal pittore austriaco Carl von Blaas e da Agnese Auda, italiana.Carl (Manders, Tirolo, 1815-Vienna 1894), che era stato chiamato in Italia...
View ArticleLawton S. Parker | Painter of Giverny Art Colony
Lawton Parker (1868-1954) was an American impressionist painter. A farm-boy from Kearney, Nebraska, Lawton Silas Parker began his training at the Art Institute of Chicago as a teenager.In 1888, he went...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci | Del color verde fatto dalla ruggine di rame
Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 186-216Il Testo IntegraleIndice186. Dell'accompagnare i colori l'uno con l'altro, in modo che l'uno dia grazia all'altro.187. Del far vivi e belli i...
View ArticleRupert Bunny | Colorist / Symbolist painter
Australian painter Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947) was one of the most successful expatriate artists of his generation.No other Australian artist achieved the critical acclaim that he enjoyed...
View ArticleLouis Ritter (1854-1892)
Born: 1854, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.Died: 1892, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.BiographyLouis Ritter’s landscape paintings of scenes in Europe and on the New England...
View ArticleThe Giverny Art Colony, 1885-1915
Between 1885 and 1915, the village of Giverny attracted more than 350 artists (Americans accounted for the majority) from at least eighteen countries around the world (including Argentina, Australia,...
View ArticleTina Garrett, 1974
In 2012, after a career as a freelance cartoon illustrator and graphic designer, the Scottsdale Artists’ School awarded Tina the first of two merit scholarships based on a handful of self-taught pastel...
View ArticleTheodore Robinson | The first American impressionist
Long considered the first American impressionist, Theodore Robinson (1852-1896) was born in Irasburg, Vermont, but spent most of his childhood in the rural Midwest, predominantly Wisconsin.Robinson’s...
View ArticleTeodor Axentowicz | Academic painter
Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor.A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist,...
View ArticleWillard Leroy Metcalf | The Ten American painters
Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His family moved to a farm in Maine in 1863, but eventually returned to Massachusetts, purchasing a home in Cambridgeport in 1872....
View ArticleFrederick William MacMonnies
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States.He was also a...
View ArticleCharles Courtney Curran | Impressionist painter
Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settingsBiographyCurran was born in Hartford, Kentucky...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci | Gradi di pittura
Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 217-234Il Testo IntegraleIndice217. Della verdura veduta in campagna.218. Qual verdura parrà partecipare piú d'azzurro.219. Qual è quella superficie...
View ArticleWilfrid Gabriel de Glehn | Impressionist painter
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') RA (1870-1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.BiographyDe Glehn's father was Alexander de Glehn of Sydenham,...
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