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Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag , 1831-1915, Dutch marine painter. He gave up banking at 35 to study painting. He later lived at The Hague and was known as a painter and wealthy patron of the arts. He presented to the nation his fine collection, containing many paintings of the Barbizon school, together with ...
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landscape painting
landscape painting portrayal of scenes found in the natural world; these scenes are treated as the subject of the work of art rather than as an element in another kind of painting.
Early Landscapes
In the West, the concept of landscape grew very slowly. Nature was traditionally viewed as ...
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George Romney
George Romney , 1734-1802, English portrait painter, b. Lancashire. Having had little early training, Romney went to London in 1762, where he rapidly became a popular and fashionable portrait painter. He studied in Italy (1773-75), and returned to England to rival Reynolds in popularity. In 1783, Ro...
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Giotto
Giotto (Giotto di Bondone) , c.1266-c.1337, Florentine painter and architect. He is noted not only for his own work, but for the lasting impact he had on the course of painting in Europe.
Training
Giotto reputedly was born at Colle, near Florence. According to tradition, he was a pupil o...
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Chinese art
Chinese art works of art produced in the vast geographical region of China. It the oldest art in the world and has its origins in remote antiquity. (For the history of Chinese civilization, see China .)
Early Periods
Neolithic cultures produced many artifacts such as painted pottery, bon...
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impressionism
impressionism in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity. It was loosely structured in that many p...
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modern art
modern art art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture ). Nearly every phase of modern a...
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Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Pannini , 1691-1765, Italian painter. Pannini abandoned the study of architecture for painting, becoming famed for his broad cityscapes, or vidute. His commemorative paintings of public events work tiny human figures into vast urban settings. In his paintings of ruins (e.g., Roman ...
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Benjamin West
Benjamin West 1738-1820, American historical painter who worked in England. He was born in Springfield, Pa., in a house that is now a memorial museum at Swarthmore College. After some instruction from a local artist named William Williams, he set up as a portrait painter in Philadelphia at 18, subs...
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Balthus
Balthus (Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) , 1908-2001, Polish-French painter, b. Paris. Balthus is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the modern era. He began painting as a young man and had his first one-man show in 1934. Balthus soon developed a distinctive st...
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