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patrons, churches, royalty, and private commissioners, which created an intrigue for artists in neighbouring countries. A Greek artists by the name of El Greco (Greek name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos) has been known to be titled as “the greatest Spanish painter of the era”, although he was not from Spanish heritage. He was born in Crete, Greece in 1567 and spent approximately half of his life traveling and apprenticing in Italy. El Greco had traveled to Rome, where he was influenced by the Florentine and

I’m Kyla Painter. Today I am doing an essay all about me and stuff I do. For example, my family, the schools I have attended, my education, interests, special talents, my opinions about the world today,and a few more things. There is a lot to know about me. Keep reading to see. First, lets start with my family. There are a lot of things to know. For example, I am the oldest child in my family, as far as my mom, my dad, and my sister. On my mom’s side of my family, I have 3 younger cousins, 2 older

disputed to the current day.  She was one of five children and was born into the life of an artist.  Her father, who was an artist as well, loved her greatly.  Her mother died when she was twelve.  Artemisia was always a skilled painter, but her father wanted even more for her daughter.  While her works were already amazing for her age, she needed artistic guidance in order to further her skills.  One man who was hired as a tutor was named Agostino Tossi.  Tossi almost

Leonardo Da Vinci is famous as a painter, sculptor and inventor. In reality he was so much more, with the range of topics in his arsenal of knowledge being anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to name a few. He did play a large role in the development of knowledge about anatomy and the human body. He was one of the greatest anatomists of his time, although unrecognized for it during his lifetime. Anatomical studies were primarily for the purpose of better depiction

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Lawren Harris is an iconic Canadian painter. Best known for being a member of the group of seven, his landscape paintings are still admired by millions of people today. Harris was born on the 23rd of October, 1885 in Brantford, Ontario. His parents were Thomas and Anna Harris and he was born into a wealthy family. He attended St. Andrew’s College and then went on to study art in Berlin. He married Beatrice Phillips in 1910 and they had three children together. Harris divorced Beatrice and married

regime except the regime of liberty."(The Painter’s key) We can understand from this that Courbet didn’t want to be associated with a group; he wanted artistic freedom to not be restrained in the world. This idea can be seen in his 1855 painting “The Painters Studio” where the artist situated in the middle is Gustave Courbet himself. He is neither on the left or right but centered in between groups. Karl Marx who is also from the same era, wrote the “Communist Manifesto” which explains the important points

On January 1st, 1618, Bartolome Esteban Murillo was born in Seville Spain. Murillo was the most famous Spanish Baroque painter of his time, known for his religious works. Murillo was the youngest of fourteen children, born to Gaspar Esteban, a barber, and María Perez . Murillo gained his surname from a traditional Andalusian custom, taking the name of his grandmother, Elvira Murillo. In 1627, Murillo’s father passed away, and his mother died a year later. Murillo was an orphan at ten years old,

“Literary works of the time note the names of individual painters as well as their use of realism, color, shading, and perspective. The work of a vase painter of the mid-400 's B.C. known only as the Niobid Painter provides evidence of some of these techniques. The Niobid Painter did not arrange his figures in a row, as was common in red-figure vase painting. Instead, he arranged them on different levels and in different sizes to show perspective.” The fundamentals of art are taught in schools for

Journal entry week 12 Pieter Bruegel, the Elder. The Hunters in the Snow (January) c. 1565, Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This week I chose The hunters in the snow. I found that it reminds me of some more recent paintings of northern landscapes depicting the winter months with the colours that are used. This painating is from a series of 6 paintings depicting the months of the year, of which only 5 survive today. It’s neat how there is many little stories or scenes going on throughout