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Gregorio Sciltian | Magic Realism painter
"The only true and supreme purpose of the art of painting has been and will always be that of obtaining the illusion of reality" - Gregorio Sciltian.Gregorio Sciltian / Գրիգոր Շիլտյան (Nakhicevan,...
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Albert Birkle | Magic realism painter
Albert Birkle (1900-1986) was a German painter and draftsman.Albert Birkle was born in Charlottenburg, then an independent city and since 1920 part of Berlin.His grandfather on his mother's side,...
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Veronique du Boisrouvray | Pastelliste painter
Self-taught artist, Véronique du Boisrouvray draws for a long time for her own pleasure, in chalk or graphite, the faces of her children.It is by chance, and late, that she discovers pastel, and with...
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Amelie Lundahl | Genre painter
Helga Amélie Lundahl (26 May 1850 - 20 August 1914) was a Finnish painter.She was born in Oulu, the youngest of eleven children.Her mother died when she was three months old and her father, Abraham, a...
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Viggo Pedersen | Impressionist / Genre painter
Viggo Christian Frederik Vilhelm Pedersen (1854, Copenhagen - 1926, Roskilde) was a Danish painter who primarily made his mark as a landscape painter.EducationViggo Pedersen learned to draw from his...
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Giovanna Fratellini | Baroque painter
Giovanna Fratellini (1666-1731) was a Florentine artist during the Baroque period.Born in Florence as Giovanna Marrmocchini Cortesi, she married Guiliano Fratellini in 1685 and changed her name to...
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Federico Barocci | Baroque / Mannerist painter
Federico Barocci (also written Barozzi) (1535 in Urbino - 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker.His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio.His...
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Ambrogio de Predis | Renaissance painter
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (1455-1508) was an Italian Renaissance painter, illuminator and designer of coins active in Milan.Ambrogio gained a reputation as a portraitist, including as a painter of...
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Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina | Renaissance painter
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (1489-1536) considered "Spain's most exquisite Renaissance painter" by Elías Tormo was first mentioned in 1575 in Relaciones de los pueblos de España as "licenciado Yáñez"...
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Pablo Neruda / Yuri Krotov | Ode to summer / Ode all'estate
Estate, violino rosso,nuvola chiara,un ronziodi catena montuosao di cicalati precede,il cieloa volta,liscio, luccicante comeun occhio,... Read more .. »
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Francesco Petrarca | Solo et pensoso / Alone and thoughtful
Solo et pensoso i piú deserti campivo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti,et gli occhi porto per fuggire intentiove vestigio human l’arena stampi.Giovanni Fattori | Uomo nel bosco, 1880-1885... Read more...
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Emily Dickinson: Ho un Uccello in primavera, che per me sola canta..
Durante gli anni 1850, la relazione più forte e più affettuosa della poetessa Statunitense Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) era con sua cognata, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, nota come Susan Gilbert o...
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Ashraf Abdel Mohsen, 1964 | Abstract painter / Visionary architect
Dr. Ashraf Abdel Mohsen is an Egyptian artist and futuristic architect who founded founded CUBE Consultants, an architecture studio based in Egypt, in 1990.Besides running his company, he is also a...
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Edwin Harris | Genre painter
Edwin Harris (1855-1906) was an British painter from Ladywood, Birmingham.Harris entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of fourteen, where he worked under Charles Morgan, F G Jackson and...
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Marco d'Oggiono | Leonardo's pupil
Marco d'Oggiono (1470-1549) was an Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied.He was born at Oggiono near Milan.Of the details of his life, we...
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Rosalba Carriera | Rococo painter
Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), a Venetian Rococo painter, was best known for her innovative approach to pastels, which had previously been used for informal drawings and preparatory sketches.She was...
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Ellen Pyle | Magazine illustrator
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876-1936) was an American illustrator best known for the 40 covers she created for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1920s and 1930s under the guidance of Post...
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Van Gogh's "Café Terrace at Night" was inspired by Maupassant's "Bel-Ami"
After finishing Café Terrace at Night, Vincent van Gogh wrote a letter to his sister expressing his enthusiasm:"You never told me if you had read Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-Ami, and what you now think of...
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | Expressionist painter
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.He was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.Life and workSchmidt-Rottluff was born in Rottluff,...
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Finnish Artists
Hugo Simberg | The Wounded Angel, 1903 | The Finnish National GalleryFinnish art started to form its individual characteristics in the 19th century, when romantic nationalism began to rise in the...
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