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Life and Paintings of Bernardo Strozzi (1581 – 1644)
Bernardo Strozzi (c. 1581 – August 2, 1644) was a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice. Strozzi was born in Genoa. He was probably...
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Life and Paintings of Gerard van Honthorst (1592 – 1656)
Gerard van Honthorst (or Gerrit van Honthorst) (4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style...
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Masters of Art: Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 – 1593)
Giuseppe Arcimboldo ( also spelled Arcimboldi) (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables,...
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Masters of Art: Diego de Velázquez (1599 – 1660)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the...
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Life and Paintings of Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917)
Edgar Degas ( born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the...
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Life and Paintings of Guido Reni (1575 – 1642)
Guido Reni (4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As...
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Masters of Art: Leonardo DaVinci (1452 – 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci born Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer,...
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Masters of Art: Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 – 1647)
Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Movements: Baroque, Illusionism Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of...
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Masters of Art: Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s...
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Life and Paintings of Titian (1488 – 1576)
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in...
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Masters of Art: Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665)
Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as...
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Life and Paintings of Antonio da Correggio (1489 – 1534)
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as Correggio, was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most...
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Masters of Art: Jacopo da Pontormo (1494 – 1557)
Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine school....
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Life and Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788)
Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. Movements: Academicism, Naturalism Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the...
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Life and Paintings of Alessandro Magnasco (1667 – 1749)
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic,...
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