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Alexis Grimou
Alexis Grimou, also Grimoult or Grimoux (1678–1733) was a French portrait painter.Alexis Grimou at the RKD He worked for an elite clientele and was called the French Rembrandt as he introduced the Northern European style of portrait painting in France.Melissa Percival, ''Taste and Trade: The Drinking Portraits of Alexis Grimou (1678–1733)'' in The Art Bulletin Volume 101, 2019 - Issue 1, pp. 6-25 Many of his intimate portraits at half-lengths were influential on the development of 18th-century portrait painting in France. Portrait painters such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argenteuil
Argenteuil () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. Argenteuil is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, department, the seat of the arrondissement of Argenteuil. Argenteuil is the second most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris (after Boulogne-Billancourt) and the most populous one in the Val-d'Oise department, although it is not its prefecture, which is shared between the communes of Cergy and Pontoise. Argenteuil shares borders with communes in 3 departements others than ''Val d'Oise'' : the Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis departements. Name The name Argenteuil is recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 697 as ''Argentoialum'', from a Latin/Gaulish root ''argento'' meaning "silver", "silvery", "shiny", perhaps in reference to the gleaming surface of the river Seine, on the banks of which Argenteuil is locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Coypel
Antoine Coypel (11 April 16617 January 1722) was a French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman.Coypel, Antoine in: Benezit Dictionary of Artists He became court painter first to the and later to the French king. He became director of the . He was given the title of ''Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi'' (Keeper of the paintings and drawings of the king), a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king's art collection. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Réau
Louis Réau (1 January 1881, Poitiers - 10 June 1961, Paris) was a French art historian. His major contribution involved exploring French art's international influence. His magnum opus, ''Iconographie de l'Art Chrétien'', in six volumes, encompasses all of Europe, including the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Life and work He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris then, until 1908, at the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes. From 1911 to 1913, he was Director of the ; working with his counterparts in the Mir Iskusstva movement. He also worked to oppose the growing influence of Germany. At the beginning of World War I, he was mobilized and served as an interpreter on the Eastern Front, with the 158th Infantry Division. After 1917, he was responsible for the Russian news service at the Ministry of War. Later, he was awarded the Order of Saint Anna. In 1928, he was placed in charge of a mission to Russia, to establish a catalogue of French art works being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dictionary Of Art
''Grove Art Online'' is the online edition of ''The Dictionary of Art'', often referred to as the ''Grove Dictionary of Art'', and part of Oxford Art Online, an internet gateway to online art reference publications of Oxford University Press, which also includes the online version of the ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. It is a large encyclopedia of art, previously a 34-volume printed encyclopedia first published by Grove in 1996 and reprinted with minor corrections in 1998. A new edition was published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. Scope Written by 6,700 experts from around the world, its 32,600 pages cover over 45,000 topics about art, artists, art critics, art collectors, or anything else connected to the world of art. According to ''The New York Times Book Review'' it is the "most ambitious art-publishing venture of the late 20th century". Almost half the content covers non-Western subjects, and contributors hail from 120 countries. Topics range from Julia Margare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ducreux
Joseph, Baron Ducreux (26 June 1735 – 24 July 1802) was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, portrait miniature, miniaturist, and engraving, engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his career at the conclusion of the French Revolution. He was made a baron and ''premier peintre de la reine'' (First Painter to the Queen), and drew the last portrait ever made of Louis XVI before the king's execution. His less formal portraits reflect his fascination with physiognomy and show an interest in expanding the range of facial expressions beyond those of conventional portraiture. Life and career Born in Nancy, France, Nancy, Ducreux may have trained with his father, who was also a painter. When Ducreux went to Paris in 1760, he trained as the only student of the pastelist Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who specialized in portraiture. Jean-Baptiste Greuze was an important influence on Ducreux's oil technique. In 1769, Ducreux was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eisen
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (17 August 1720 – 4 January 1778) was a French painter and engraver. Life The son and pupil of Frans Eisen, he was born at Valenciennes. In 1741 he went to Paris, and in the following year entered the studio of Le Bas. His talent and his sparkling wit gained him admission to the court, where he became painter and draftsman to the King, and drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour. He afterwards fell into disgrace, and in 1777 retired to Brussels, where he died in poverty in 1778. His paintings are not without merit, but it is as a designer of illustrations and vignettes for books that he is best known. The most notable of these are the designs for the ''Fermiers généraux'' edition of the ''Contes'' of La Fontaine, published at Amsterdam in 1762; Ovid's ''Metamorphoses,'' 1767–71; the ''Henriade'' of Voltaire, 1770; the ''Baisers'' of Dorat, 1770; and the '' Vies des Peintres hollandais et flamands'' of Descamps, published in 1751–63. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tronie
A tronie is a type of work common in Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting that depicts an exaggerated or characteristic facial expression. These works were not intended as portraits but as studies of expression, type, physiognomy or an interesting character such as an old man or woman, a young woman, the soldier, the shepherdess, the Oriental, or a person of a particular race, etc.Walter Liedtke, ''Vermeer and the Delft School'', New York, 2001, p. 138Dagmar Hirschfelder, ''Tronie und Porträt in der niederländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts'' Berlin: Mann, 2008, p. 351-359 The main goal of the artists who created tronies was to achieve a lifelike representation of the figures and to show off their illusionistic abiliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro ( , ; ), in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures. Similar effects in cinema, and black and white and low-key photography, are also called chiaroscuro. Further specialized uses of the term include chiaroscuro woodcut for coloured woodcuts printed with different blocks, each using a different coloured ink; and chiaroscuro drawing for drawings on coloured paper in a dark medium with white highlighting. Chiaroscuro is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (alongside cangiante, sfumato and unione) (see also Renaissance art). Artists known for using the technique include Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio Rembrandt, Vermeer and Goya, and Georges de La Tour. History Origin in the chiaroscuro drawing The term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime De Redon Des Chapelles
Marquis Charles-François-Jean-Maxime de Redon des Chapelles was a theatrically-obsessed aristocrat under the French ''ancien régime'', and a former French cavalry officer, who in Napoleon's France became one of the more prolific authors for the popular stage, writing melodramas and vaudevilles for the boulevard theatres. Career Particularly in the earlier part of his dramatic career, he often worked in collaboration with others, many of them still obscure even now, including composers as well as writers: many of his dramas include songs and ensembles. Almost all survive in copies printed at the time. Maxime de Redon also wrote a small number of prose works, one of which touches on political themes. His dramatic career extended from 1805 until at least 1838, ending with a parody of Victor Hugo's ''Ruy Blas'', but almost all details of de Redon's personal life are obscure. His initial successes as a dramatist came in the brief period of Napoleon's Consulate and then Empire, before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgundy Wine
Burgundy wine ( or ') is made in the Burgundy region of eastern France, in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône, a tributary of the Rhône. The most famous wines produced here, and those commonly referred to as "Burgundies," are dry red wines made from pinot noir grapes and white wines made from chardonnay grapes. Red and white wines are also made from other grape varieties, such as gamay and aligoté, respectively. Small amounts of rosé and sparkling wines are also produced in the region. Chardonnay-dominated Chablis and gamay-dominated Beaujolais are recognised as part of the Burgundy wine region, but wines from those subregions are usually referred to by their own names rather than as "Burgundy wines". Burgundy has a higher number of ' (AOCs) than any other French region, and is often seen as the most '-conscious of the French wine regions. The various Burgundy AOCs are classified from carefully delineated ' vineyards down to more non-specific regional appellations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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