… criticised for superficiality Work showcases travel (Middle East Venice Tyrol Corfu Montana Maine & Florida) Commissions used #portraitures grand style while #landscapes flashed #Impressionism Later focused #murals & #pleinair Notoriously under-valued by earlier art historians
…Signature works inc: Self-Portrait as Allegory of Painting Beatrice Cenci Judith and Holofernes Catafalque of Elisabetta Sirani Portia Wounding Her Thigh Judith with the Head of Holofernes Virgin and Child Allegory of Justice Charity & Prudence St Joseph with the Infant Jesus
… & brilliant colour palette Works cover historical & Biblical narratives many featuring women portraits & allegories Established academy for women artists & emerged as seminal artist in early modern Bologna …
Born #onthisday1638 Elisabetta Sirani prolific Italian #painter specializing in historical themes Master of #Baroque style at just 19 produced 200+ paintings 15 etchings hundreds of drawings 13 public altarpieces Employed dramatic contrasts of light & shade virtuoso brushwork …
Born #onthisday1830 Albert Bierstadt German American #painter of the American West Best known for lavish sweeping meticulously detailed landscapes imbued with #romanticism feel & #Luminism style glowing lighting Foremost painter of these landscapes for rest of 19th-century …
… Cervantes Dante Milton Rabelais & Balzac Doré illustrated oversized edition of The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Later illustrated new edition of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner Tennyson’s Idyllis of the King The Divine Comedy & contributed to The Illustrated London Weekly
Born #onthisday1878 Augustus John Welsh #painter #draughtsman & #etcher Important exponent of #PostImpressionism in the U.K. Known initially for his #drawings & #etchings by 1920s he was Britain's leading #portaitpainter recognized for his psychological insights into his subjects
… Qi Baishi theorized that "paintings must be something between likeness and unlikeness, much like today's vulgarians, but not like to cheat popular people”
… considered 20th-century greatest colorist Emerged as #Post-Impressionist Rejected #Cubism used colour as foundation for expressive decorative & monumental #paintings Sought to create art that would be "a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair”
Born #onthisday1883 Janet Cumbrae-Stewart Australian #painter taught by Frederick McCubbin & Exhibited with Victorian Artists Society & member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters Spent 1920s & 1930s painting & exhibiting in Italy France & Britain Returned to Australia in 1939