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Alphonse Stengelin
Alphonse Stengelin (1852-1938) was a French painter, engraver, and lithographer who spent much of his life working outside France. He is remembered mostly for his landscapes. Biography He was born in a home that had been designed by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot, designer of the Panthéon. His parents were Swiss people, Swiss. His father was a banker, associated with the banking house of Evesque & Cie.''Les Guichets du savoir'' notice biographique réalisée à partir des recherches du pasteur Ernest Christen (1932) et Nicole Lemoine (1985) — cf. bibliographie. 
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Rotogravure
Rotogravure (or gravure for short) is a type of intaglio printing process, which involves engraving the image onto an image carrier. In gravure printing, the image is engraved onto a cylinder because, like offset printing and flexography, it uses a rotary printing press. Once a staple of newspaper photo features, the rotogravure process is still used for commercial printing of magazines, postcards, and corrugated (cardboard) and other product packaging. History and development In the 19th century, a number of developments in photography allowed the production of photo-mechanical printing plates. W H Fox Talbot mentions in 1852 the use of a textile in the photographic process to create half-tones in the printing plate. A French patent in 1860 describes a reel-fed gravure press. A collaboration between Klic and Fawcett in Lancaster resulted in the founding of the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company in 1895, which company produced art prints. In 1906 they marketed the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Bailly-Herzberg
Janine Bailly-Herzberg (1920–2005) was a French art historian, specialising in 19th-century art. Author Bailly-Herzberg was an author as well. Her book ''Pissarro et Paris'' was published in 1992 by Flammarion. She also co-wrote ''L'eau-forte de Peintre Au Dix-neuvième Siècle: La Société Des Aquafortistes 1862-1867'', published in 1972 by Leonce Laget; ''Correspondence of Camille Pissarro: 1886-1890'', published by University Presses of France; and ''Daubigny'', which was published in 1975 by publishers Éditions Geoffroy-Dechaume. Her ''Dictionnaire de l'estampe en France, 1830-1950'' is a 384-page-long dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ... published by Flammarion in 1985. References 1920 births 2005 deaths French art historians {{Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France ( SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1852 Births
Year 185 ( CLXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lascivius and Atilius (or, less frequently, year 938 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 185 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Nobles of Britain demand that Emperor Commodus rescind all power given to Tigidius Perennis, who is eventually executed. * Publius Helvius Pertinax is made governor of Britain and quells a mutiny of the British Roman legions who wanted him to become emperor. The disgruntled usurpers go on to attempt to assassinate the governor. * Tigidius Perennis, his family and many others are executed for conspiring against Commodus. * Commodus drains Rome's treasury to put on gladiatorial spectacles and confiscates property to su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joconde
Joconde is the central database created in 1975 and now available online, maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, for objects in the collections of the main French public and private museums listed as ''Musées de France'', according to article L. 441-1 of the ''Code du patrimoine'' amounting to more than 1,200 institutions. "La Joconde" is the French name of the ''Mona Lisa'', which like about half of the collections of the Louvre, is included in the database, as one of 295 items by, after, or connected with Leonardo da Vinci; of these, only 42 works are by Leonardo da Vinci, including 6 paintings. By November 2012, Joconde contained over 475,000 object online and over 290,000 with images, from 366 collections in France, including 209,350 drawings, 63,547 paintings, 34,561 prints, 34,102 sculptures or 16,631 costumes and their accessories and is still expanding. By June 2022 it counted 636,405 objects. The database is not only dedicated to the information of the publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Zilcken
Charles Louis Philippe Zilcken, generally known as Philip (20 April 1857 – 3 October 1930), was a Dutch painter, etcher, and writer. Life and work He was born in The Hague. After graduating from the Gymnasium Haganum, he took lessons at the Drawing Academy (now the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Royal Academy of Art) with Karel Klinkenberg and Anton Mauve. At the age of sixteen, he was offered the position of "secrétaire intime officieux' to Princess Sophie of the Netherlands. In 1875, while in her service, he began experimenting with etching and lithography, and would produce over 700 pieces by 1918. Later, as an avid Francophile, he made numerous study trips to France, where he created sketches for his works. He was one of the co-founders of the in 1885, inspired by the French . In 1892, he and his friend Jan Toorop welcomed the poet Paul Verlaine to The Hague. Zilcken made several portraits of him. The following year, he made his first trip to North Africa, visiting A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
