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Salvator Rosa

Salvator Rosa was born in Naples on July 21, 1615. He first studied painting with his uncle, Domenico Greco, then with Jusepe de Ribera, and finally with Aniello Falcone. In 1640, after spending some time in Rome, Rosa moved to Florence, where he worked as a painter for the Medici court. In Florence he met…

Rosso Fiorentino

Born in Florence with the red hair that gave him his nickname, Rosso first trained in the studio of Andrea del Sarto alongside his contemporary, Pontormo. In late 1523, Rosso moved to Rome, where he was exposed to the works of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Renaissance artists, resulting in the realignment of his artistic style. Fleeing…

Richard Teschner

Richard Teschner (March 21 or 22 March 1879 in Karlsbad , Austria-Hungary , 4 July 1948 in Vienna) was an artist of the Vienna Art Nouveau and puppeteer , the art of Javanese myths theater on the European rendered world. The son of a printer grew Leitmeritz and studied from 1896 to 1899 at the Academy…

Richard Roland Holst

Dutch painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer and stained-glass artist. He trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (1886-90), under the directorship of August Alleb?. Having initially painted and drawn Impressionistic landscapes, he started working in the ‘t Gooi region in 1892, where, influenced by Vincent van Gogh and Jan Toorop, he made a number of Symbolist drawings…

Richard Dadd

Dadd was born at Chatham, Kent, England, the son of a chemist. His aptitude for drawing was evident at an early age, leading to his admission to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 20. He was awarded the medal for life drawing in 1840. With William Powell Frith, Augustus Egg, Henry O’Neil…

Pieter Claesz

He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1621, where his son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born. He and Willem Claeszoon Heda, who also worked in Haarlem, were the most important exponents of the…

Philip James De Loutherbourg

Alsatian painter, illustrator and stage designer, active in France and England. Loutherbourg’s father, Philipp Jakob (1698-1768), was an engraver and miniature painter to the court of Darmstadt. In 1755 he took his family to Paris, where Loutherbourg became a pupil of Carle Vanloo; he also attended Jean-Georges Wille’s engraving academy in the Quai des Augustins…

Peter Nicolai Arbo

Peter Nicolai Arbo (June 18, 1831 – October 14, 1892) was a Norwegian historical painter, who specialized in painting motifs from Norwegian history and images from Norse mythology. He is above all noted for Åsgardsreien, a dramatic motif based on a Norwegian folk legend and Valkyrie, which depicts a female figure from Norse mythology.  Peter…

Paul Delaroche

Painter and sculptor, son of Gregoire-Hippolyte Delaroche. Though he was offered a post in the Bibliotheque Nationale by his uncle, Adrien-Jacques Joly, he was determined to become an artist. As his brother Jules-Hippolyte was then studying history painting with David, his father decided that Paul should take up landscape painting, and in 1816 he entered…

Paul Albert Steck

Paul Albert Steck (?–1924) was a French painter of the late 19th century. Paul Albert Steck was born in Troyes, France, probably in 1866 though the exact date is not known. He began his career studying under Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1896 he was made a member of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited works in…

Paja Jovanovic

Paja Jovanović was born in Vršac, Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, Austrian Empire (today Vojvodina province, Serbia). His father was photographer Stevan Jovanović and his mother was Ernestina Jovanović, née Deot. He spent his childhood and early youth in this town, where he had the opportunity to see the iconostasis of Pavel Đurković…

Odon Kacziany

Painter. Miklós Barabás first, and then he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1869. 1874-76 in Paris, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in by itself. Rome went on study trips. In 1904, the National Salon of Louis Ernst Prize, in 1906 exhibition of the same place it was, and in 1909 Marcel Noble Prize awarded. The…

Niklaus Manuel

He was a gifted artist who made highly realistic etchings and became known locally for his satirical plays. He became known internationally as a friend of Huldrych Zwingli from his teenage years and a strong supporter of the Protestant Reformation. In Bern, he campaigned for the reformed cause with Berchtold Haller, the priest at St…

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (born 1594, Villers, Francedied Nov. 19, 1665, Rome, Papal States) French painter. Except for two years as court painter to Louis XIII, he spent his entire career in Rome, where he became an admirer of ancient Roman civilization. In early works, he depicted themes from Classical mythology in a painterly style reminiscent of such…