Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twenty five.

                                              Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

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“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

“You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat.”

“-last words about painting, age 78...

I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”

“There’s nothing more absurd than a “connoisseur.”

“We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.”    

“It's with my brush that I make love.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6875735.Pierre_Auguste_Renoir 

Cubism.

Cubism is an art movement. It appeared at the beginning of the XX century.

Cubism is found in painting, literature, architecture, and sculpture.

Pablo Picasso painted some of his paints in this style.

Modernism, surrealism, avant-garde have something in common with Cubism.

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Great people: Peter Paul Rubens.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Holy Roman Empire. He was an artist.

Venus and Adonis (1635), Child with a bird (1614 and 1625), The Judgement of Paris (1606), Diana Returning from the Hunt (1615), and Landscape with Milkmaids and Cattle (1618) are Rubens' works.

Baroque was his movement.

Peter Paul Rubens had wives and children.

He died on May 30, 1640, in Spanish Netherlands.

Retrofuturism.

Retrofuturism is a genre of art. People from the past imagine the future. There are many assumptions about what the world will look like in many years. 

Writers wrote books about the next century and describe inventions of mankind. Artists paint buildings of the city of the future and its changes.

But these expectations don't always correspond to reality.

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Great people: Leon Battista Alberti.

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian scientist, artist, writer, philosopher, and architect.

He was born on February 14, 1404, in Genoa, Italy.

Alberti's movement was in Italian Renaissance.

He had his own notable works.

Leon Battista Alberti died on April 25, 1472, in Rome, Italy.

Great people: Donatello.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was an Italian sculptor. He was born in 1386, in Republic of Florence.

Donatello worked with different materials for his sculptors.

Renaissance was Donatello's movement.

He died on December 13, 1466, in Republic of Florence.

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred one.

                                                              Donatello.

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“Take the wood and make one of your own”

“Speak, damn you, speak!”

Source of information:

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/donatello/quotes/ 

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety five.

                                                                       Leon Battista Alberti.

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“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.”

“Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.”

“The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes 

Great people: Paolo Veronese.

Paolo Veronese, also known as Paolo Caliari was an Italian painter. He was born in 1528, in Verona.

Veronese had his own movement: Renaissance. Leda and the Swan (1585), Perseus and Andromeda (1576-1578), Adoration of the Magi (1573) are his famous works.

Paolo Veronese died in 1588, in Venice.

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty three.

                                                        Paolo Veronese.

“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”

“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”

“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/26656-Paolo_Veronese

Great people: Tintoretto.

Tintoretto or Jacob Robuti was born in 1518, in Venice, Italy. He was an Italian painter.

Tintoretto’s movement was Renaissance. His famous works: Seige of Asola (1544-45), The Supper at Emmaus (1542-43), Saint George, Saint Luis, and the Princess (1553).

Jacob Robusti died on May 31, 1594, in Venice, Italy.

Great people: Titian.

Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio was born in 1488/90, in Italy. He was a painter of Renaissance.

Titian had his own style of art.

His famous works: Perseus and Andromeda (1554-1556), Venus and Adonis, Danaё (1544-1560s), Diana and Acteon (1556-1559), Diana and Callisto (1556-1559), and etc.

Titian died on August 27, 1576, in Venice.

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty two.

                                             Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

“What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/66163-Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini

Great people: Jan van Eyck.

Jan van Eyck was a Dutch painter. He was born in 1380, in Holy Roman Empire.

Jan van Eyck was a part of the Renaissance movement.

His famous works: The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) Madonna in the Church (1438-1440) Madonna of Chancellaor (1435) Rolin Gjent Atarpiece (1432), and etc.

Jan van Eyck died on July 9, 1441, in Netherlands.

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty.

                                                              Tintoretto.

“You can never do too much drawing.”

“Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riato, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights without sleep.”

“Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.”

Source of information:

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/tintoretto/quotes/#:~:text=Famous%20Quotes%20by%20Tintoretto,reach%20it%20in%20the%20next.

Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy nine.

                                                                    Titian.

“The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

“It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.”

“From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.”

Source of information:

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/titian/quotes/#:~:text=Famous%20Quotes%20by%20Titian%20(Tiziano%20Vecelli)&text=It%20is%20not%20bright%20colors,person%20he%20is%20painting... and 

https://www.azquotes.com/author/41717-Titian

Great people: Giorgione.

Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco was born in 1477, in Italy. He was a painter. Giorgione studied with Giovanni Bellini. He painted in High Renaissance style.

His notable works are: The Tempest (1508), Sleeping Venus (1510), Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, or  Castelfranco Madonna (1503/04), The Three Philosophers (1505-1509).

Giorgione died in 1510, in Italy.

Great people: Caravaggio.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi also known as Caravaggio. He was born on September 29, 1571, in Milan, Italy.

Caravaggio was an Italian painter. Baroque was his style.

Caravaggio visited different places. His famous paintings; include: Young Sick Bacchus (1593), Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1596), Bacchus (1596), Medusa (1597), Basket of Fruit (1599), and etc.

Caravaggio died on July 18, 1610, in Porto Ercole, Italy.

Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy eight.

                                                            Jan van Eyck.

 

“Tangible piece of luminous matter, thee confront us with a reconstruction rather than a mere representation of the visible world.”

Source of information:

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/van-eyck-jan/

Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy seven.

                                                             Caravaggio.

“All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/43356-Caravaggio