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Alejo Fernandez
Fernández, Alejo (b ?Germany, c.1475; d Seville, 1545). Spanish painter, probably of German origin, as he is referred to as ‘Maestro Alexos—pintor Aléman’. He married the daughter of a painter called Pedro Fernández at Córdoba and took her name, but he... Read more |
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Eugene Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix (Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix) , 1798-1863, French painter. Delacroix is considered the foremost painter of the romantic movement in France; his influence as a colorist is inestimably great. He studied in Guérin 's studio with Géricault , who... Read more |
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Henri Fantin-Latour
Fantin-Latour, Henri (b Grenoble, 14 Jan. 1836; d Buré, Orne, 25 Aug. 1904). French painter and lithographer. He is best known for his luxurious flower pieces, but he produced many other kinds of work, including several group portraits that are important historical documents and show his... Read more |
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Theodore Chasseriau
Chassériau, Théodore (b Sainte-Barbe de Samano, Santo Domingo [now Dominican Republic], 20 Sept. 1819; d Paris, 8 Oct. 1856). French painter and printmaker, born in the West Indies, where his father was a French consul. He was the most gifted pupil of Ingres, with whom he began to study... Read more |
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Francesco Hayez
Hayez, Francesco (b Venice, 11 Feb. 1791; d Milan, 12 Dec. 1882). Italian painter, active mainly in Milan. Hayez was the most important figure in the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in Italian painting, but his Romantic leanings come out mainly in subject matter rather than in... Read more |
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Aime-Jules Dalou
Aimé-Jules Dalou , 1838-1902, French sculptor. He was popular under the Third Republic. Dalou studied with Carpeaux and was later exiled (1871-79) to England for his revolutionary sentiments. He taught in London. His best-known works are his Triumph of the Republic (Place de la Nation,... Read more |
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Marino Faliero
Marino Faliero , 1274-1355, doge of Venice (1354-55). As commander of Venetian forces he defeated (1346) Louis I of Hungary at Zara, and later he held high diplomatic posts. Soon after his election as doge, the Genoese triumphed over the Venetians. The new doge, at odds with patricians who had... Read more |
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Pierre Narcisse Baron Guerin
Pierre Narcisse Guérin, Baron , 1774-1833, French painter. He won enthusiastic recognition in 1799 for his Marius Sextus (Louvre). A defender of the classicism of J. L. David, he became director of the École de Rome in 1822. He counted among his pupils Delacroix, Géricault,... Read more |
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Adolphe Monticelli
Adolphe Monticelli , 1824-86, French painter. He worked in Paris and, after 1870, in his native Marseilles. Influenced by Watteau and Delacroix, he portrayed subjects usually of a festive or exotic nature. He has been regarded as a prophet of abstract expressionism because of his free use of... Read more |
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Walter Friedlaender
Walter Friedlaender , 1873-1966, American art historian, b. Germany. Friedlaender pursued a distinguished academic career in Germany until 1934 and afterward taught at New York Univ. His best-known works on 16th- and 17th-century art include Caravaggio Studies (1955), his edition of The Drawings... Read more |
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