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easel easel
easel. Stand on which a painting is supported while the artist works on it. The oldest representation of an easel is on an Egyptian relief of the Old Kingdom (c.2600–2150 bc). Pliny mentions a machina in an anecdote about Apelles and this presumably refers to an easel. Renaissance... Read more
Miniskirt Miniskirt
Miniskirt The miniskirt was introduced in 1965 at the fashion show of French designer André Courreges (1923 Read more
Henri Harpignies Henri Harpignies
Harpignies, Henri (b Valenciennes, 24 July 1819; d Saint-Privé, Yonne, 28 Aug. 1916). French landscape painter (and occasional printmaker). He did not take up painting seriously until 1846, but he was then very prolific and won considerable success and fame. He is sometimes classed with the... Read more
Armory Show Armory Show
Armory Show international exhibition of modern art held in 1913 at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City. It was a sensational introduction of modern art into the United States. The estimated 1,600 works included paintings representing avant-garde movements in Europe. Duchamp's Nude Descending... Read more
peep-show box peep-show box
peep-show box. An enclosed cabinet with scenes painted on the interior surfaces in such a way that when viewed through a small opening or eyepiece they give a strong illusion of three-dimensional reality. Alberti may have been the inventor of the peep-show box, for some such device is ascribed to... Read more
Frederick II (Prussia) Frederick II (Prussia)
Frederick II or Frederick the Great, 1712-86, king of Prussia (1740-86), son and successor of Frederick William I . Early Life Frederick's coarse and tyrannical father despised the prince, who showed a taste for French art and literature and no interest in government and war. At the age of 18... Read more
Isaac Fuller Isaac Fuller
Fuller, Isaac (b ?c.1606; d London, 17 July 1672). English decorative and portrait painter. He is said to have studied in France with Perrier, then worked in Oxford and London. Fuller painted altarpieces for Oxford colleges (his Resurrection in All Souls was described by the diarist John Evelyn... Read more
Nathaniel Hone Nathaniel Hone
Nathaniel Hone 1718-84, Irish miniaturist and portrait painter. Hone is noted for his smoothly painted, informal portraits of middle-class subjects. His painting The Conjurer (1775) formed part of the first recorded one-man show in Great Britain.... Read more
Sir George Clausen Sir George Clausen
Clausen, Sir George (1852–1944). British painter (mainly of landscapes and scenes of rural life), born in London, the son of an interior decorator of Danish descent. His training included a few months at the Académie Julian, Paris, in 1883 and his work was influenced by French plein-air... Read more

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