Showing posts with label Painters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painters. Show all posts

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: /bɛərˈniːni/, US: /bərˈ-/, Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Gian Lorenzo Bernini


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Self-portrait of Bernini, c. 1623, Galleria Borghese, Rome    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini



Abraham Brueghel (1631-c.1690)

Abraham Brueghel

Abraham Brueghel (baptised 28 November 1631 – c. 1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Abraham Brueghel


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Sculptural cartouche with garland, possibly a self-portrait    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Brueghel



Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Jacques-Louis David


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Cupid and Psyche, 1817, oil on canvas, 184.2 x 241.6 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David



Guillaume Courtois (1628-1679)

Guillaume Courtois

Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679) was a Franc-comtois-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Guillaume Courtois


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Presumed self-portrait    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Courtois



Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (c.1475-1536)

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina

Fernando (or Hernando) Yáñez de la Almedina, born in Almedina, Spain in c. 1475 and died in Valencia, Kingdom of Spain in 1536, was a Spanish painter.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina


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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, oil on canvas, c. 1510, in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Y%C3%A1%C3%B1ez_de_la_Almedina



Francesco Granacci (1469-1543)

Francesco Granacci

Francesco Granacci (1469 – 30 November 1543) was an Italian Renaissance painter active primarily in his native Florence.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Francesco Granacci


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Nativity, late 1490s. Honolulu Museum of Art    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Granacci



Titian (c.1488/90-1576)

Titian

Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/90 – 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian) was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Titian


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Self-Portrait, c. 1567, now housed in Museo del Prado in Madrid    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian



Maerten de Vos (1532-1603)

Maerten de Vos

Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532 – 4 December 1603) was a Flemish painter.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Maerten de Vos


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The Incredulity of Thomas, 1574    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maerten_de_Vos



Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Nicolas Poussin


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Self-portrait by Poussin, 1650    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin



Jean Metzinger (1883-1956)

Jean Metzinger

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe]; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Jean Metzinger


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Metzinger, before 1913    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Metzinger



Harold Abbott (1906-1986)

Harold Abbott

Harold Frederick Abbott (14 June 1906 – 8 June 1986) was an Australian portrait painter, an official war artist and an art teacher by profession.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Harold Abbott


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Lt. Harold Abbott, 1943    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Abbott_(artist)



Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Leonardo da Vinci


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This portrait attributed to Francesco Melzi, c. 1515–1518, is the only certain contemporary depiction of Leonardo.    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci



John Smibert (1688-1751)

John Smibert

John Smibert (rarely spelled Smybert; /ˈsmaɪbət/; 24 March 1688 – 2 April 1751) was a Scottish-born painter, regarded as the first academically trained artist to live and work regularly in British America.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by John Smibert


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Self-portrait of Smibert, present as part of The Bermuda Group, c. 1729–1731, Yale University Art Gallery    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smibert



Khachik Abrahamyan (1960- )

Khachik Abrahamyan

Khachik Abrahamyan (Armenian: Խաչիկ Աբրահամյան; born January 15, 1960, in Yerevan), is an Armenian artist.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Khachik Abrahamyan


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Khachik Abrahamyan, 22 March 2017 | Author: Armineaghayan | CC BY-SA 4.0    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachik_Abrahamyan