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Albrecht De Vriendt
Albrecht Frans Lieven De Vriendt or Albrecht De Vriendt (In French-language publications referred to as Albert De Vriendt or Albert François Lieven De Vriendt)''In memoriam. Albrecht De Vriendt'' Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann, 1901 (, 8 December 1843, 14 October 1900) was a Belgian painter known for his genre scenes, history paintings, interiors and figure paintings.Albert De Vriendt at the |
Ramon Casas
Ramon Casas i Carbó (; 4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond. He was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets (El garrot). Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as ''modernisme''. Barcelona and Paris Casas was born in Barcelona. His father had made a fortune in Matanzas, Cuba; his mother was from a well-off Catalan family. In 1877 he abandoned the regular course of schooling to study art in the studio of Joan Vicens. In 1881, still in his teens, he was a co-founder of the magazine ''L'Avenç''; the 9 October 1881 issue included his sketch of the cloister of Sant Benet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Joseph Navez
François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 – 12 October 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter. Biography Navez was born in Charleroi. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects. The orientalist painter Jean-François Portaels was his pupil (and son-in-law). Jean Carolus, the Belgian painter of genre scenes and interiors, was a protege of François-Joseph Navez. Navez was elected a fourth class member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1826, he became a supernumerary associate in 1841 and resigned in 1851. He died in 1869 in Brussels. Main works * 1816 : ''Sainte Véronique de Milan'', Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent. * 1816 : ''La Famille de Hemptinne'', Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.Museum of Fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Decavele
Johan Decavele (born Tielt, 1943) is a Belgian historian and archivist who worked as head of the Culture Department of the City of Ghent. He has mainly published on the history of Ghent and of the Reformation. He contributed to the ''Algemene Geschiedenis der Nederlanden'', ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'', ''Monasticon belge'', ''The Golden Delta of the Low Countries'' and ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation''. Life Decavele studied history at the University of Leuven and at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte in Mainz with Joseph Lortz, a well-known expert on the history of the Reformation. In 1971 he obtained his PhD in history at the KU Leuven. His dissertation earned an award from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and was published in two volumes as ''De dageraad van de Reformatie in Vlaanderen''. With its almost 850 pages, the dissertation is generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism'', p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaise De Keyser
Nicaise de Keyser (alternative first names: Nicaas, Nikaas of Nicasius; 26 August 1813, Zandvliet – 17 July 1887, Antwerp) was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting. Biography He received his painting tuition at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts under Jozef Jacobs and Mattheus Ignatius van Bree. After 1835 he made many travels including to England and Scotland, Paris and Italy.D. Cardyn-Oomen. "De Keyser, Nicaise." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2 March 2014 He married the Isabella Telghuys on 6 October 1840. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Slingeneyer
Ernest Slingeneyer, Ernest Isidore Hubert Slingeneyer or Ernst SlingeneyerNiels Matheve and Hans Rombaut, 'Slingeneyer, Ernest Isidore Hubert, historie-, genre- en portretschilder, politicus' (28 May 1820 – 27 April 1894) was a painter of paintings, portraits, genre scenes and the occasional landscape. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Gallait
Louis Gallait (9 or 10 May 1810 – 20 November 1887) was a Belgian painter. He lay at the basis of a revival of history painting in Belgium. He earned his reputation especially with the large painting of Charles V's abdication. Gallait's works were esteemed because of their realism, faithfulness of the costumes and color composition of his paintings. He was also a distinguished portrait painter. Biography Gallait was born in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium in 1810. He first studied in his native town under Philippe Auguste Hennequin. In 1832 his first picture, ''Tribute to Caesar'', won a prize at the Salon of Ghent. He then went to Antwerp to continue his studies under Mathieu Ignace van Brée, and in the following year exhibited at the Brussels Salon ''Christ Healing the Blind''. This picture was purchased by subscription and placed in the Tournai Cathedral. Gallait next went to Paris, and he sent to the Belgian Salons ''Job on the Dunghill'', ''Montaigne Visiting Tasso in Priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egide Charles Gustave Wappers
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 18036 December 1874) was a Belgian painter. His work is generally considered to be Flemish painters, Flemish and he signed his work with the Dutch form of his name, Gustaaf Wappers.Note: The painter is known by one or by several forenames, in English mainly in their French language versions: ''Gustave'' or less frequently in full ''Egide Charles Gustave'' – though born in the Flanders, Flemish city of Antwerp as ''Egidius Karel Gustaaf Wappers'', and internationally also known as such though more often a''Gustaaf Wappers'' Biography He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and during 1826 in Paris. The Romanticism, Romantic movement with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first exhibited painting, "The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden," appeared at the appropr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht De Vriendt - Pope Paul III For The Portrait Of Luther
Albrecht ("noble", "bright") is a given name or surname of German origin and may refer to: First name *Albrecht Agthe, (1790–1873), German music teacher *Albrecht Altdorfer, (c. 1480–1538) German Renaissance painter *Albrecht Becker, (1906–2002), German production designer, photographer, and actor *Albrecht Berblinger, (1770–1829), German constructor (the tailor of ulm) *Albrecht Brandi, (1914–1966), German U-boat commander in World War II *Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, (1865–1939), German field marshal in World War I *Albrecht von Wallenstein, (1583–1634), Bohemian soldier and politician during the Thirty Years' War *Albrecht Dieterich, (1866–1908) German classical philologist and religious scholar *Albrecht Dietz, (1926–2012), German entrepreneur and scientist *Albrecht Dürer, (1471–1528), German artist and mathematician * Albrecht Dürer the Elder, German goldsmith and father of Albrecht Dürer *Albrecht Elof Ihre, (1797–1877), Swedish diplomat and politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Maris
Simon Willem Maris (May 21, 1873 – January 22, 1935) was a Dutch painter best known as a portrait artist. He was the son of Dutch landscape painter Willem Maris of the Hague School. Life and work He was born in The Hague. Simon Maris was a student of his father Willem Maris and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Arts of Antwerp. He then spent some time in Brussels and made study trips to Paris and Italy. In 1900 he settled in Amsterdam. In 1903 he traveled with his friend Piet Mondriaan for a few months to Spain. Together with Mondrian and Arnold Marc Gorter he would regularly paint in the following years on the Gein River, where he also drew Mondrian's portrait in 1906. After his marriage to Cornelia den Breejen in 1908, he worked in Zandvoort during the summers. Maris became especially famous as a portrait artist, mostly of worldly women, often commissioned. He also made more informal portraits of moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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