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Guido Reni SUICIDE OF LUCRETIA
Guido Reni was a prominent Italian painter of high-Baroque style.
titian venus of urbino
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance.
The color titian is derived from the artist's frequent use of brownish orange, especially for the hair of his early idealized portraits of courtesans.
thomas eakins reclining male nude
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American painters of his time, an innovating teacher, and an uncompromising realist.
Otto Griebel DIE NACKTE NUTTE
Otto Griebel (German artist) was one of the less well-known artists of the Weimar Era. Like his more famous contemporaries George Grosz and Otto Dix, he was principally committed to social and political subjects. He was, however, less an overt propagandist that a social commentator who chronicled the vices and corruption that he saw around him with scant sympathy.
Alexandre Cabanel NYMPH AND SATYR
Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter.
Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon II preferred painter.
andre kertesz distortion no 6
André Kertész was a Hungarian-born photographer distinguished by haunting composition in his photographs and by his early efforts in developing the photo essay.
Auguste Rodin DANAIDE
Auguste Rodin was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor, but also a painter and printmaker.
Known for his love affairs and his interest in the sensual, Rodin was a short, stocky, and bearded man, sometimes referred to as a "brute". Very devoted to his craft, he worked constantly, but not feverishly. Though he has been stereotyped as temperamental and loquacious— especially in his later years—he has also been described as possessing a silent strength, and during his first appearances at Parisian salons, he seemed shy.
Rodin was a naturalist, less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition, he turned away from the abstraction and idealism of the Greeks, and the decorative beauty of the Baroque and neo-Baroque movements. His sculpture emphasized the individual and the concreteness of flesh, and suggested emotion through detailed, textured surfaces, and the interplay of light and shadow. To a greater degree than his contemporaries, Rodin believed that an individual's character was revealed by his physical features.
Jan van Eyck EVE
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was a 15th century Flemish painter and is considered one of the great painters of the late Middle Ages.
olsson pale nude (??)
DOROTHEA TANNING leonorf
Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.
Born in Galesburg, Illinois, Tanning lived in Paris for twenty-eight years. She met the German painter Max Ernst in 1942 and married him four years later. He introduced her to the circle of the Surrealists. Her most well-known work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (a dark painting laden with symbolism; ironically named after Mozart's light-hearted serenade), shows that she became a member of that group for a while, but later her painting style changed to Impressionism.
bellocq nude with mask
Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq is an American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".
Bernini APOLLO AND DAPHNE detail
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau THE BIRTH OF VENUS
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter.
(Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
Masters of the Fontainebleau School GABRIELLE D'ESTREE AND THE DUCHESSE DE VILLARS
The Ecole de Fontainebleau refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late Renaissance centered around the royal Château of Fontainebleau.
The works of this "first school of Fontainebleau" are characterized by the extensive use of stucco (moldings and picture frames) and frescos, and an elaborate (and often mysterious) system of allegories and mythological iconography. Renaissance decorative motifs such as grotesques, strapwork and putti are common, as well as a certain degree of eroticism.
Michelangelo Buonarroti DYING SLAVE
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
Michelangelo, who was often arrogant with others and constantly dissatisfied with himself, saw art as originating from inner inspiration and from culture. In contradiction to the ideas of his rival, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo saw nature as an enemy that had to be overcome. The figures that he created are forceful and dynamic; each in its own space apart from the outside world.
Fundamental to Michelangelo's art is his love of male beauty, which attracted him both aesthetically and emotionally. In part, this was an expression of the Renaissance idealization of masculinity.
