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Jean-Jacques Henner | Academic painter
Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 - 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting figures, religious subjects and portraits.Henner was born at Bernwiller...
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Fanny Fleury | Academic painter
Fanny Laurent Fleury, known as Madame Fanny (1846-1923) was a French painter.Fleury was born in Paris, France, and trained with Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, Marie Durand and Jean-Jacques Henner.She...
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Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant | Orientalist painter
Biography from: Christie'sBorn in Paris into a Languedoc family, Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) trained in Toulouse at the local Academie before moving to Paris in 1866.He enrolled in the...
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La Belle Époque
La Belle Époque is a period of French and European history, usually considered to begin around 1871-1880 and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914.Occurring during the era of the Third French...
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Giuseppe Amisani | Belle Époque painter
Italian portrait painter of the Belle Époque Giuseppe Amisani (1881-1941) was an important figure in his lifetime, though almost entirely forgotten today - his name is not included in the principal...
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Galileo Chini | Art Nouveau painter
One of the leading players in the Art Nouveau style, or Liberty style as it is known in Italy, the Tuscan painter Galileo Chini (1873-1956) - who was also a graphic artist and a ceramicist) - occupies...
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Asta Nørregaard | Portrait painter
Asta Nørregaard (13 August 1853 - 23 March 1933) was a Norwegian painter who is best known for her portraits.Nørregaard was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.She was the daughter of Hans Peter...
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Harriet Backer | Impressionist painter
Biography from: Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, NorvegiaHarriet Backer inspired a new generation of artists.In Backer’s family, art and culture were part of how the children were raised.Her older sister Agathe...
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Ellen Thesleff | Expressionist painter
Ellen Thesleff (5 October 1869 - 12 January 1954) was an expressionist Finnish painter, regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters.Thesleff was born in Helsinki, the eldest daughter of...
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Salvatore Quasimodo | Natale / Christmas
Natale. Guardo il presepe scolpito,dove sono i pastori appena giuntialla povera stalla di Betlemme.Anche i Re Magi nelle lunghe vestisalutano il potente Re del mondo.Jacopo Tintoretto | The Madonna of...
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Luigi Pirandello | Sogno di Natale, 1896
Sentivo da un pezzo sul capo inchinato tra le braccia come l'impressione d'una mano lieve, in atto tra di carezza e di protezione. Ma l'anima mia era lontana, errante pei luoghi veduti fin dalla...
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Karl Feiertag | Genre painter
Karl Holiday (1874, Vienna - 1944, Weidling) was an Austrian painter.Karl Urlaub studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski and Josef Mathias...
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Pablo Neruda | Ode al primo giorno dell’anno / Ode to the First Day of the Year
Lo distinguiamo dagli altricome se fosse un cavallinodiverso da tutti i cavalli.Gli adorniamo la frontecon un nastro,gli posiamo sul collo sonagli colorati,Olga Darchuk, 1976... Read more .. »
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Elga Sesemann | Expressionist painter
Elga Sesemann (March 28, 1922 - January 21, 2007) was a Finnish post-war neo-romantic painter.She was an expressionist whose themes often included melancholy, depression, anxiety and...
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Maria Sibylla Merian | Baroque Era Illustrator
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a German naturalist and scientific illustrator.She was one of the earliest European naturalists to observe insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the...
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Michaelina Wautier | Baroque painter
Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (1604-1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.Only since the turn of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of an outstanding female Baroque...
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Women Artists of the Baroque era | Part 1
As in the Renaissance Period, many women among the Baroque artists came from artist families. Artemisia Gentileschi is an example of this.She was trained by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, and she...
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Matthias Stom | Baroque painter
Matthias Stom or Matthias Stomer (1600-1652) was a Dutch, or possibly Flemish, painter who is only known for the works he produced during his residence in Italy.He was influenced by the work of...
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Rachel Ruysch | Baroque painter
Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), who has been called the "most celebrated Dutch woman artist of the 17th and 18th centuries", was successful for nearly 70 years as a specialist in flower paintings.Born in...
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Jean-Etienne Liotard | Orientalist Pastel painter
Jean Etienne Liotard | Woman in Turkish Dress, Seated on a Sofa, 1752 | The Metropolitan Museum of ArtJean-Etienne Liotard was a widely traveled artist whose French Huguenot family had settled in...
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