Showing posts with label painter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painter. Show all posts

Sunday, July 2, 2023

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.



Monday, May 1, 2023

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.





Tuesday, April 4, 2023

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.



Friday, February 3, 2023

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.



Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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.

Monday, January 2, 2023

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

Sunday, January 1, 2023

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.





Friday, December 2, 2022

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.

Friday, July 1, 2022

Great people: Albrecht Dürer.

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter. He was born on May 21, 1471, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Albrecht Dürer the elder and Barbara Holper.

Dürer visited Italy, Netherlands, and etc.

He created many famous paintings: Young Hare (1502), Haller Madonna (1505), Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515). Dürer's movement was High Renaissance.

Albrecht Dürer married Agnes Grey in 1494.

He died on April 6, 1528, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire.





Saturday, December 4, 2021

Great people: Claude Monet.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. His parents were Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet.

Claude Monet visited different different places. He had special education.


Claude Monet was a founder of impressionism painting style. Also, his styles were modern art and realism. Impression, Sunrise (1872) is one of his work in impressionism movement. Water Lilies (series), Rouen Cathedral (series), Poplars (series), Haystacks (1890-1891) are Monet's paints, too.



He was married and had children.





Monet died on December 5, 1926, in Giverny, France.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Great people: Sandro Batticelli.

 Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was an Italian Renaissance painter.

He was born in 1445, in Florence. Batticelli studied painting with Filippo Lippi.


Sandro Batticelli created many famous paintings. The Birth of Venus (1484-1486), Primavera (late 1470s, early 1480s), Adoration of the Magi (1475), Madonna and Child (1465-1470), Madonna and Child with an Angel (1465-1467).



He died on May 17, 1510, in Florence.


Friday, June 4, 2021

Great people: Jan Vermeer.

 Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter. He was born on October 31, 1632, in Delft. 

Vermeer’s works were of Baroque and Dutch Golden Age paintings.

His famous paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665), The Milkmaid (1658), The Art of Painting or The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his Studio (1666-1668), Mistress and Maid (1667).


Johannes Vermeer had a wife.


Jan Vermeer died on December 15, 1675, in Delft.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Great people: Rembrandt.

 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch artist. Also, he was interested in printmaking and drawing. He was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, Netherlands.

The artist influenced Baroque and Dutch Golden Age. His works were very important for these periods. 

Rembrandt created created many famous paintings. The Abduction of Europa (1632), The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Danaë (1636-1650), self-partraits, The Night Watch (1642), Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654), Hundred Guilder Print (1647-1649).

Rembrandt was married on Saskia van Uylenburgh since 1634 to 1642. They had children. 

The painter died on October 4, 1669, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.