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Master of the Life of the Virgin
Master of the Life of the Virgin (or Master of the Life of Mary) (active c.1460–90). German painter, named after a series of eight panels (from a dismembered alterpiece) illustrating the life of the Virgin, of which the Presentation in the Temple is in the National Gallery, London, and the... Read more |
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Life Cycle
Life CycleThe eight stages of lifeConclusionBIBLIOGRAPHYThe observer of life is always immersed in it and thus unable to transcend the limited perspectives of his stage and condition. Religious world views usually evolve pervasive configurations of the course of life: one religion may envisage it as... Read more |
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Luis Melendez
Meléndez, Luis (b Naples, 1716; d Madrid, 11 July 1780). Spanish painter, active in Madrid. He painted various subjects, but from the 1760s he specialized in still-life and is regarded as the finest Spanish painter in this field in the 18th century (he is sometimes called ‘the Spanish... Read more |
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Hans Burgkmair
Hans Burgkmair , 1473-1531, German engraver, woodcut designer, and painter. Having learned woodcutting from Schongauer, he settled in 1498 in his native Augsburg. His work shows the influence of his friend Dürer, whose enthusiasm for the Italian Renaissance he shared. Among his well-known... Read more |
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Henry Francois Becque
Henry François Becque , 1837-99, French dramatist. His plays, which portrayed Parisian life in realistic detail, influenced French naturalistic drama. Among them are Les Corbeaux (1882) and La Parisienne (1885), translated in the volume The Vultures, The Woman of Paris, The... Read more |
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Giovanni Segantini
Giovanni Segantini , 1858-99, Italian painter, b. in the Tyrol. A herder in his youth, he is known for his portrayal of Alpine peasant scenes. Although his early work is neoimpressionist in its love of nature, he made more symbolic paintings in the last years of his life. Well known among his works... Read more |
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Sir William Orpen
Sir William Orpen 1878-1931, British portrait and genre painter, b. Ireland. He is best known for his scenes of Irish daily life, his paintings and sketches of life at the front in World War I, and his portraits. His paintings Myself and Venus (Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh) and Leading the Life in... Read more |
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Willem Claasz Heda
Willem Claasz Heda , 1594-c.1678, Dutch still-life painter. His excellent studies of tables laden with food, called ontbijt [breakfast piece] still life, are seen in many important European galleries. They are characterized by delicate lighting effects and somber colors.... Read more |
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Sir Arthur Streeton
Streeton, Sir Arthur (b Mount Duneed, Victoria, 8 Apr. 1867; d Olinda, Victoria, 2 Sept. 1943). Australian painter, active mainly in Melbourne. He was a prolific landscape painter, working in an Impressionist style similar to that of his friend Tom Roberts. Between 1898 and 1924 he spent most of... Read more |
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Jan Veth
Veth, Jan (b Dordrecht, 18 May 1864; d Amsterdam, 1 July 1925). Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, and writer on art, a leading figure in the Dutch art world of his time. His best-known book is his monograph on Rembrandt, originally published to mark the 300th anniversary of the... Read more |
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Holocaust art gallery portrays beauty in time of suffering
...produced by Jews and other victims of Nazi...Nussbaum conveys his isolation and...her favorites is German painter Charlotte Salomon...France as a young woman. Her primary...which she titled "Life? Or Theater...everyday camp ... |
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Caustic postwar art, through German eyes
...through German eyesByline...some French painters, Fernand...Beckmann and others during the...1933. In other words, for...sent to a woman friend in...scenes of life and death...objectivity of his wartime ... |
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Here & Now
...paint a still life." That witty...lifelike--if his subjects were alive. The painter portrays aircraft...they were his friends. His style has...depicts war. German pilots, Japanese and other ... |
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PAINTED PATTERNS
...are hobbies women take up once...energetic women, who have...She dyes other fabric to get...a petite woman with an easy...Her work also portrays a sense of...and sister. German painter Paul Klee ... |
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TOO MUCH NARRATIVE SPOILS `FRUIT'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
...pioneering German Expressionist painter, but it...and Rainer portrays the artist in this one-woman show that...what made the woman a great artist...reconstructs her life beginning...attended a women's art ... |
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IN THIS RETROSPECTIVE, NARUSE STANDS ALONE
...Yukiko, a woman obsessed with...after he and his wife endure...director in his native Spain...category as other up- and...revenge. German filmmaker...the changing lives of three generations...Taiwanese ... |
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HOPKINS' FLAWLESS PORTRAYAL BRINGS `PICASSO'S' PASSION TO LIFE.(L.A. LIFE)...
...relation to his women, and Anthony...century painter whose artistic...matched by his faithlessness with his many lovers...attraction for others and his destruction...during the German ... |
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How a waspish gossip learned to sting; The Letters Of Lytton StracheyEdited...
...film, which portrays Strachey...affair with the painter Dora Carrington...brought out his best qualities...collection of his letters...complained about his 'giggling...their love lives become increasingly...s writing ... |
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Wanderings of American tourists doing France, fast.(BOOKS)
...a charmed life in Paris and...ultimately forsakes his creative talents...sources for his assertion...Neither portrays Gerald Murphy...rather as a painter of considerable...gave money to his artist friends...to get ... |
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'I'm really not interested in acting' BIG INTERVIEW.(Features)
...harrowing role portrays a mother who...How many other Oscarwinning...unconventional home life sees her living...Sandro Kopp, a German-New Zealand...by Scottish painter John Byrne, who lives nearby. The...While ... |
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