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Sir Peter Paul Rubens(1577-1640)Flemish artist & diplomat from (modern-day Belgium). Considered most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Compositions reference erudite aspects of classical & Christian history. He emphasized movement, color & sensuality.
Rosa Bonheur(1822-1899)French artist,painter of animals & sculptor,realist style. Best-known paintings: Ploughing in the Nivernais, now at the Musée d'Orsay; The Horse Fair, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Considered the most famous 19th cent female painter.
@1tortuerouge @HobanGirl Nicolas Poussin(1594-1665)Leading painter of classical French Baroque style, working life spent in Rome. Work characterized by clarity, logic & order & favors line over color. Studied works of Renaissance & Baroque painters-especially Raphael. Louis XIV bought 31 of his paintings
Claude Lorrain(1600-1682)French painter/draughtsman/etcher of the Baroque era. 1 of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, 2 concentrate on landscape painting. By the end of the 1630s he was the leading landscapist in Italy.
John Constable(1776-1837)English landscape painter: Romantic tradition. Known 4 revolutionizing genre of landscape painting w/pictures of Dedham Vale area surrounding his home. His paintings r among the most popular/valuable in British art, but he was never financially successful
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Auguste Renoir(1841-1919)French artist, a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. In 1862 began studying art under C Gleyre in Paris, met Sisley, F Bazille & Monet. Inspired by the style/subject matter of previous modern painters C Pissarro & Edouard Manet.
@angelicadisogno @barrywyman2356 Charles E Hallé(1846-1914)English painter/gallery manager, painted history scenes, genre scenes & portraits. Mentioned fondly by Isadora Duncan, she described Paris strolls, countryside trips, gallery tramping & dining. "I danced 4 him in the forest, he made sketches of me.
Giovanni Bellini(1430-1516)Italian Renaissance painter, best known of the Bellini family Venetian painters. Father-Jacopo Bellini, brother Gentile Bellini (more highly regarded than Giovanni during his lifetime, but the reverse is true today) Brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930)British writer & medical doctor, created character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 with A Study in Scarlet, 1st of 4 novels, 50 short stories about Holmes & Dr. Watson. A new voice in the field of crime fiction, a prolific fantasy/science fiction writer.