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history painting
history painting the painting of scenes from classical and Christian history and mythology. It was taught in the academies of art , from the Renaissance to the 19th cent., as the highest form of art in an hierarchical grouping that ranked still-life painting lowest on the list. Included in the... Read more |
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painting
painting direct application of pigment to a surface to produce by tones of color or of light and dark some representation or decorative arrangement of natural or imagined forms. See also articles on individual painters, e.g., Rubens ; countries, e.g., Dutch art ; periods, e.g., Renaissance art... Read more |
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Hans Makart
Hans Makart , 1840-84, Austrian history painter, studied with Karl von Piloty . His early success was phenomenal. The emperor of Austria provided him with a studio, and his short life was crowded with official honors and triumphs. In his large history paintings he strove to emulate Titian and... Read more |
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Antoine Joseph Wiertz
Antoine Joseph Wiertz , 1806-65, Belgian historical painter. He enjoyed such prestige that the government built him a studio in Brussels, now the Wiertz Museum. He delighted in painting complicated, philosophical subjects and scenes from ancient history. Wiertz invented a type of mat painting and... Read more |
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Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis 1909–1979 Painter Bought Art Books with Gambling Winnings Fascinated by Act of Painting Favored Black Paint Selected paintings Sources Norman Lewis was the first major African-American member of the art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As such, he occupies a... Read more |
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Giambettino Cignaroli
Cignaroli, Giambettino (b Verona, 4 July 1706; d Verona, 1 Dec. 1770). Italian historical, religious, and decorative painter, active mainly in and around Verona. Cignaroli was the leading artist of his period there, working in an elegantly classical style. He was also a writer; in 1749 he... Read more |
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Gavin Hamilton
Hamilton, Gavin (b Murdieston House, Lanarkshire, 1723; d Rome, 4 Jan. 1798). Scottish painter, archaeologist, and picture dealer. From 1748 he lived mainly in Rome, where he was a leading member of the Neoclassical circle of Mengs and Winckelmann. As an artist he concentrated on history paintings,... Read more |
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Grand Manner
Grand Manner. Term applied to the lofty and rhetorical manner of history painting that in academic theory was considered appropriate to the most serious and elevated subjects. The classic exposition of its doctrines is found in Reynolds's Third and Fourth Discourses (1770 and 1771), where he asserts... Read more |
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lart pompier
pompier, l'art. A term applied pejoratively to French academic art (more particularly pretentious history painting) of the late 19th century. It is said to derive from the habit of posing nude models wearing firemen's helmets to substitute for ancient military headgear (pompier is French for... Read more |
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Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle , 1820-97, Italian art critic and writer. Cavalcaselle studied painting at the Academy of Venice and traveled extensively through Italy studying its art treasures. He participated in the Revolution of 1848 and escaped to England, where he remained for several years.... Read more |
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history painting
history painting. The visual representation...1779) and other paintings. The insurrection...the Irish subject paintings by Lady Butler...representations of Irish history in its many forms...revolution, rather than painting, ... |
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Painting
Painting To 1945Since 1945To 1945 The Protestant...1771) redefined British history painting with figures dressed...War furthered heroic modern history painting, as in a series of battle...early nineteenth century; history ... |
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painting
...Reformation brought a crisis to painting in Britain with protestants...resulted in many examples of painting, sculpture, and glass being...replaced by more mannered paintings like the Hilliard miniature...The safe option of portrait painting got artists ... |
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art and the Earth sciences
...China and Japan have a long history of landscape painting, dating in China from the ninth...Western Europe, landscape painting emerged much later, in the...Sir William Hamilton; his painting of an eruption of Vesuvius in...Japan was the subject of 36 ... |
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Barry, James
...that he determined to specialize in history painting in the ‘grand manner’, that is...the most important cycle of history paintings in the British Isles. However, lack of support for history painting on a grand scale ... |
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Maclise, Daniel
...important practitioner of history painting in the 19th century. Born...his book illustrations, paintings, and antiquarian drawings...the gold medal for history painting. He became a friend of the...theatre, as seen in his ... |
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Cole, Thomas
...arrived in New York, where his paintings of Hudson Valley landscapes...1886), his frequent painting companion, and Frederick Edwin...Cole was preoccupied with history painting. An able poet...to the futility of secular history.See also Early ... |
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art and the body
...read as social documents; paintings and sculptures are direct vehicles of history. To a certain degree all art embodies crystallized history, allowing its cultural values...Courbet later made a similar painting revealing only female...belong to art academies ... |
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Homer, Winslow
...Homer worked in New York, painting sun‐lit images of women...Life Line (1884). These paintings, like his less dramatic...saturated color. His final paintings depict the confrontation...Gilded Age; Magazines; Painting: To 1945.Bibliography...Symposium, ... |
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make-up
...Make-up usually involves painting or dyeing the skin of the face...hip.Make-up has a long history, both as a fashionable marker...explanation for the dramatic face-painting of many diverse cultures was that...cosmetics. Besides the face-painting of warriors ... |
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history
...something: the history of Aegean painting. ∎ an eventful past: the group has quite a history. ∎ a past characterized...particular thing: his family had a history of insanity. 3. a continuous...particular trend or institution: a history of ... |
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art
...typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be...activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture: she's...branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance...such as languages, literature, ... |
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ground
...substance used to prepare a surface for painting. ∎ a piece of wood fixed to a wall...theoretical or practical basis: the study of history must be grounded in a thorough knowledge...they were grounded in the classics, in history, and in literature. 4. place or lay... |
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France
...supplies some 70% of electricity, with considerable hydroelectric capacity.History Prehistoric remains, cave paintings, and megalithic monuments attest to a long history of human settlement. The area known as GAUL to the Romans was conquered... |
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select bibliography
...further reading:Old Testament James Barr , History and Ideology in the Old Testament (OUP...Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) John Drury , Painting the Word (Yale, 1999) J. D. G. Dunn...Harvey , Jesus and the Constraints of History (Duckworth, 1982) M. Hooker , Paul... |
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age
...become sluggish. 2. a distinct period of history: a child of the television age. ∎ Geol. a...or appear older: he tried aging the painting with coffee. ∎ (esp. with reference to...established. through the ages throughout history. |
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Churchill, Sir Winston S.
...1955 when he resigned to take up writing and painting. In 1953, he won the Nobel Prize for literature for his six-volume history of World War II (1948–54), and also wrote the four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956... |
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martial arts
...implements such as sickles and threshers. Within Buddhist history, the martial arts have been closely identified with the teachings...Buddha-nature of much the same sort that other arts (such as painting, calligraphy, and poetry) provided. The samurai found in... |
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Hogarth, William
...largely self‐taught, before producing ‘conversation pieces’, engraving scenes of contemporary life, and history painting. Pugnacious, provocative, and a passionate believer that honest naturalism was preferable to the sterility of formal... |
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Mantegna, Andrea
Mantegna, Andrea (1431–1506), Italian painter. His series of fresco paintings representing the Histories of St James and St Christopher (1448–57) in the church of the Eremitani at Padua (almost completely destroyed in 1944... |
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ignorant
...subject (ignorant of the fine points of financial management). A professor of art history might refer to someone who doesn't know how to look at a painting as uneducated or untutored, both of which refer to a lack of formal education in schools... |
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take
...antonyms: ignore, miss. 21. he took great pleasure in painting synonyms: derive, draw, acquire, obtain, get, gain...accomplish, fulfill. 29. I took drama, French, and art history synonyms: study, learn, have lessons in; take up, pursue... |
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PICTURES OF HISTORY; PAINTINGS HELP FOURTH-GRADERS LEARN ABOUT FAMOUS...
...s true during Black History Month." Mott, 9...this month to create paintings portraying noted African...school library before painting their pictures in art...biography to go with their painting, said Tecumseh art...Americans through their ... |
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A brush with history: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery
...fine artists from throughout history. Imagine an exhibition that...permanent display." These paintings represent "people whose...organizing curators, the paintings were selected primarily because...as landscape or still life paintings, the creation of a ... |
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A brush with history: paintings from the National Portrait Gallery. (Learning...
...fine artists from throughout history. Imagine an exhibition that...permanent display." These paintings represent "people whose...organizing curators, the paintings were selected primarily because...as landscape or still life paintings, the creation of a ... |
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ARTWORK REVEALS SYRACUSE HISTORY; PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND DRAWINGS GIVE GLIMPSE...
...glimpses into the cultural history of a particular society...can be captured in paintings, prints and pottery...Work!," features paintings, prints and drawings...to consider what the painting or drawing depicts...of the artists chose ... |
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New history paintings tell stories old as war
...of Betty Herbert's war paintings at Childs Gallery. Herbert...unschooled artist who started painting at 54. Her exhibit, "America...to the war in Iraq. Like history painters of old, Herbert is a storyteller. She packs her paintings with action, humor, ... |
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Unconquerable spirit; George Stow's history paintings of the San.(Brief...
...9780821418697 Unconquerable spirit; George Stow's history paintings of the San. Skotnes, Pippa. Ohio University Press...geologist George Stow, who painstakingly copied the rock paintings of the San in South Africa in collaboration with linguist... |
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Redefining History Painting in the Academy: The Summer Composition...
...skills to produce a History Painting and in what ways were...conventions of History Painting to create contemporary...Some early student paintings responded to the set...traditionally offered by History ... |
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Round Table Discussion: What Happened to History Painting in Victorian Britain?
...University of Plymouth History Painting in the Nineteenth...institution. The idea of History Painting can therefore be seen...what did History Painting mean by the end of...not in fact alter. Paintings like ... |
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Introduction: The Death of History Painting in Nineteenth-Century Art?
...major genres of art except History Painting, and it is typical of Symbolist art that History Painting is denuded of its...pantheon' of modernity, but History Painting is excluded. If...religious and historical genre ... |
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Rule Britannia? History painting in 18th-century Britain.(Cover Story)
The dearth of history painting is one of the most...any survey of British painting between the seventeenth...Of course, history paintings have almost always...requisite of a good history painting. Steele might ... |
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