PAINTERS

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA (1416/1492), ITALIAN PAINTER – A myth, through the centuries

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PAINTING AND TRAVELING A LOT – Piero della Francesca, nothing may be forgotten

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA 1/4 – Of the man (which is certainly not the year of birth), born in the small Italian town of Sansepolcro, and died in the year in which America was discovered, we know relatively little. He began to paint banners and flags for his city, but also altarpieces, portraits and murals (partially lost). Professionally, he grew up …

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LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA (1836/1912), DUTCH/ENGLISH PAINTER – Painting with deepest feeling the strongest spirit of romance

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CHEERFUL LOVER OF WINE AND WOMEN, PARTIES AND PAINTING – The extraordinary life of an painter: Laweence Alma-Tadema

LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA 1/4 – Dutch born and die English, this is the geographic frame of a painter from the Victorian era. He entered the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium, becaming assistant to the painter and professor Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history. Inside its Merovingian themes you can observe the artist moving by the deepest feeling and the …

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JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS (1805/1876), ENGLISH PAINTER – The master of oruiental exotic scenes, with Mediterranean flavor

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PAINTING BAZAAR AND HAREM – John Frederick Lewis, oils and watercolour, painting oriental themes

JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS 1/4 – He was a student of his father Frederick Christian (a landscape painter), and to the age of 15 he sold his first painting (a work that represented the animals). This English, who paints in the nineteenth century (during the Romantic period), is known for his paintings oriental, exotic scenes with a Mediterranean flavor, a sea …

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BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA (alias BALTHUS) – The human being stripped of its crust of hypocrisy

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PAINT SO STRANGE, THE THEATRE OF LIFE – Balthus: paint everything that is hidden in ourselves

BALTHUS 1/6 – He was born and died in February, in France. Paris and Berlin, Bern and Geneva, separation of parents and the mother who falls in love with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He approaches art with drawings that illustrate a story and the Cat Mitsou, but his artistic talent – which starts from classicism – be encouraged, during …

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ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO (1891/1956), RUSSIAN PAINTER – Showing the truth, but at the same time making the drawing clearer

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MARIA’ FORTUNY I MARSAL, SPANISH PAINTER – the charm of the African light

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