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July 15, 1606: Dutch Baroque painter #Rembrandt is born.
Regarded as the greatest artist of Holland’s "Golden Age", Rembrandt did not come from a family of artists, which was unusual for the time.
🎨 Rembrandt, "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee", 1633
#Art #Painting
July 9, 1563: Italian Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi is born.
Name sound familiar? It should. Orazio is father to famous female artist Artemisia Gentileschi, whose birthday was yesterday!
From 1626 onward, he was court painter to King Charles I.
🎨 Finding of Moses, 1633
Perhaps the most famous of #CanadianArtists are the Group of Seven. Founded in 1920, it included: Lawren Harris, Franklin Carmichael, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Franz Johnston, F.H. Varley and J.E.H. MacDonald.
🎨 Franklin Carmichael, "Lone Lake", 1929
🇨🇦 #CanadaDay 🇨🇦
June 29: Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul
🎨 Carlo Crivelli, "Saints Peter and Paul", probably 1470s
May 28, 1810: Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame is born.
The son of a marble carver, Calame lost sight in one eye as a child. He took painting lessons from Alpine landscape artist François Diday, whose influence is evident in Calame's work.
🎨 1860
May 27, 1889: American artist and illustrator Cyrus Leroy Baldridge is born.
Baldridge was a frontline artist during World War I. He worked for several newspapers reporting on life in the trenches. He also traveled the world, illustrating different cultures and lifestyles. 🎨
This striking chalk drawing, "Bearded Saint in a Forest", is housed at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Albrecht Dürer, "Bearded Saint in a Forest", c. 1516 #Art #ArtLovers #OTD