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Francois-Gaspard Adam
Adam, François-Gaspard (b Nancy, 23 May 1710; d Paris, 18 Aug. 1761); Lambert-Sigisbert (b Nancy, 10 Oct. 1700; d Paris, 12 May 1759); and Nicolas-Sébastien (b Nancy, 22 Mar. 1705; d Paris, 27 Mar. 1778). French sculptors, brothers. All three spent several years in Rome after training... Read more |
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Friedrich August Kekule
Kekulé, Friedrich August GERMAN CHEMIST 1829–1896 Friedrich August Kekulé was born on September 7, 1829, in Darmstadt, Hesse (later part of Germany). He showed an early aptitude for both languages and drawing and wanted to be an architect. He began his... Read more |
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Edme Bouchardon
Edmé Bouchardon , 1698-1762, French sculptor; pupil of Guillaume Coustou. He is known for his fountain in the Rue de Grenelle, Paris, and for numerous works at Versailles, in the Louvre, and in Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Bouchardon was famous for the classical purity of his style.... Read more |
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Paris Peace Conference
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Stefano della Bella
Stefano della Bella , 1610-64, Italian engraver, b. Florence. First copying the manner of Jacques Callot, his style changed somewhat when he traveled to Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. He was adept at landscapes, battle pieces, and animal portraits, although most of his numerous works were designs... Read more |
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Jacques Zwobada
Zwobada, Jacques (1900–1967). French sculptor. He was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine and studied briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His early inspiration was Rodin, as can be seen in his monument to Simon Bolivar (1933) at Quito in Ecuador. In about 1935 he abandoned sculpture... Read more |
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Claude III Audran
Audran, Claude III (b Lyons, 25 Aug. 1658; d Paris, 28 May 1734). The best-known member of a family of French painters and decorators. He was one of the leading decorative painters of the time, his output including such things as painted panelling and harpsichord cases, but most of his work has... Read more |
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Mario
Mario , 1810-83, stage name of Giovanni Matteo, Cavaliere di Candia, Italian tenor. An officer of the Piedmontese guard, he went to Paris in 1836 and studied at the Paris Conservatory, making his debut (1838) at the Paris Opera in Robert le Diable. He sang with great success in Paris, London, and... Read more |
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Christoffer Vilhelm Eckersberg
Christoffer Vilhelm Eckersberg , 1783-1853, Danish painter. He studied with J. L. David in Paris and in Rome became a friend of Thorvaldsen. After his return to Denmark (1816) he taught at the Copenhagen Academy, becoming its director. His finest works are portraits and seascapes, executed with... Read more |
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Striking, Sweeping Views of an Earlier Rome
...had to spend a great deal of time and...demonstrated by ''Rome Viewed: Panoramic Drawings and Prints of...includes the Trevi Fountain, affording visitors...Considering Rome's historical...challenges posed by Rome's ... |
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A classical revival: Rome. (Italy)(Special Travel Issue)
...probably the greatest array of art...in the world, Rome, in recent years...politicians, even in Rome, were accountable...to the Trevi Fountain without the menace...preparation for the Great Jubilee of the...churches and ... |
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Celestial Leonardo.(Leonardo da Vinci's genius displayed in exhibition of...
...da Vinci's drawings explores the...in 1519, the great Renaissance biographer...Department of Drawings and Prints at...the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Library...the Vatican in Rome, and Bill and...thinking of one of greatest ... |
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Wi zard of the Baroque Jonathan Keates celebrates Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the...
...His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando...with being the greatest sculptor of his...Even in the chalk drawing made around his...working life in Rome, a city whose...instructive. The Rome most of us go...s obelisks and ... |
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The Reinventing of Washington
...parks and spraying fountains. L'Enfant...models and 179 drawings of a city of the...The models and drawings illustrated a unified...the monuments of Paris, Versailles, Rome, Venice, Vienna...L'Enfant's great Mall, which ... |
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Going for Baroque
...years since the great Italian Bernini...made some of the greatest sculpture of...enduring mark on Rome. Leader of the...Among the finest drawings here are several...the Baroque in Rome. It takes imagination...palace facades, ... |
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Ample space goes to technical aspects of historic gardening GARDENS, from...
...and a central fountain. The scale of...including "The Fountain, Villa Torlonia...green landscape, drawing the viewer's...at Tivoli near Rome to the Vaux...miles outside of Paris. Writing intelligently...gardens occurred in ... |
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Baroque'n'roll
...flavour of Baroque Rome - the city of...colonnades, its fountains and its monuments...ingenious selection of drawings, plans and models...Borromini's drawing for the dramatic...bigger picture. Rome in the 17th century...40 years, what ... |
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In Vegas, A Jackpot Of Artistry; The Best Bet in Town? Russian 'Treasures' Show.
...imitations: a fake Rome, a fake Luxor...present a fake Paris complete with...museum, now on the drawing boards, devoted...with a thousand fountains opened in the...constructed by Peter the Great at Peterhof and...ascension of Peter the ... |
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