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   André Derain was a French painter. Born Chatou, France, June 10, 1880. Died Garches, France, Sept. 10, 1954.    Derain was one of the ...

    Gustave Courbet was a French painter. Born Ornans, France, June 10, 1819. Died near Vevey, Switzerland, Dec. 31, 1877.    Courbet star...

   Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 - Sept. 26, 1917) holds a unique position in the history of art. In his works he combined the Classical emph...

Due Amanti    Giulio Romano, real name Giulio Pippi de' Gianuzzi, c. 1492—1546, Italian painter and architect, was born in Rome. Suc...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Water is the driving force of all nature. The noblest pleasure is the joy...

   François Gérald (1770-1837) was a French painter born in Rome. After a period of study with David in Paris, where he went to live in 1792...

Robert Delaunay was a French painter. Born in Paris, France, Apr. 12, 1885. Died Montpellier, France, Oct. 25, 1941.    Delaunay created ...

   Georges Rouault (1871-1958), was a French artist. He was a deeply religious man with strong moral convictions, and his works show his hat...

   Tilman Riemenschneider  (1460?-1531), was one of the best-known sculptors of his day in Germany. Riemenschneider carved in both stone and...

   William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) was a noted American portrait, figure and landscape painter whose efforts for the advancement of American...

The Awakening Conscience    William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was an English painter. He studied at the Royal Academy in London, his birth...

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, called Il Bolognese, (1606—80) was an Italian architect, painter, and engraver, born in Bologna and studied u...

   Walker, Henry Oliver Walker was an American figure and mural painter. He was born in Boston in 1843 and studied art under Bonnat in Paris...

Cupid and Psiche    Olin Levi Warner was an American sculptor; born in Suffield, Conn., April 9, 1844; studied in the École des Beaux Ar...

Edwin Dickinson was an American painter. Born Seneca Falls, N.Y., Oct. 11, 1891. Dickinson has been a leading painter in the Realist style....

   Although he lived in France, Pablo Picasso had been born in Spain and was keenly sympathetic to the Loyalist cause during the Spanish ...

   El Greco, or Domenicos Theotocopoulos, 1541—1614, was a Cretan painter, identified with Spain, born near Candia on the isle of Crete. Not...

Self-portrait (1848)    James Ward was an English painter and engraver; born in London in 1769. At the age of 12 he was apprenticed to J...

   Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was a famous English painter, was born at Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the son of a wool manufacturer, and wh...

Rainbow by Inness    George Inness (1825-1894), a noted American landscape painter. He was born at Newburg, New York. When fourteen he ...