350円 Joshua Reynolds was English portrait painter who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. His art, frequently based on the Old Masters or antique sculpture, were intended to raise classical standards. His rich colour, strong lighting and free handling of paint greatly ...

350円   This Art Book contains 66 annotated reproductions of Mary Cassatt paintings with date and interesting facts page below. Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist painter who depicted the lives of women, chiefly the intimate bond between mother and child. At the beginning of the 20th ...

350円 Maurice Brazil Prendergast was an American Post-Impressionist artist. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the artistic intentions and philosophy of the group. Prendergast's work was strongly associated fr...

350円 Julius LeBlanc Stewart was an American artist who spent almost his entire career in Paris. A contemporary of colleague expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia." Julius studied under Eduardo Zamacois as a teenager, under Jean-L&eacute...

350円 Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, his nervous and eccentric posing and distortions represent a tr...

350円 Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a Russian painter regarded as a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism and the first Russian painter to gain widespread recognition in the West. His contemporaries called him The Great Karl. His masterpiece The Last Day of Pompeii (1830-...

350円 Konstantin Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter, artist with a rare gift for color harmonization. His works represent a merger of the classic art tradition with impressionism and art-nouveau. In the best of Korovin's portraits, man and nature merge together, the beauty of each comp...

350円   Chase worked in all media but was excellent in pastel drawing. He as well created a lot of watercolor paintings and etchings. Highly proficient in pastel as well as oils, Chase organized with Robert Frederick Blum the American Society of Painters in Pastel, and is viewed as one of the m...

350円 William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who have been credited with pioneering western sequential art. He was also a popular portrait painter. Hogarth's truthful, vivid portraits may be called masterpieces of British painting...

350円   William Blake was English Romantic artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet. He possessed visionary powers and in art as in life was an individualist who made a standard of nonconformity. Blake had a prejudice against painting in oils on canvas and experimented with a variety ...

350円 Thomas Cole was an American artist, regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that prospered in the mid-19th century. Cole's work was known for its realistic and detailed depiction of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and nat...

350円 Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and master of the pastels. He describes his own work as "ambiguous and indefinable": "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined." Redon's paintings a...