Carlo Dolci
|
|
|
1616-1686
Italian
Carlo Dolci Locations
Italian painter. The major Florentine painter of the 17th century, he enjoyed an international reputation in his own lifetime. He was a gifted portrait painter and painted a number of large altarpieces, but his reputation is largely based on his half-length, single-figure paintings, characterized by their intense religiosity and meticulous technique. His mature style was complex and sophisticated. Intended for cultivated and aristocratic circles, his was never a popular art in any sense. Baldinucci described the painter tormented fantasy and dark fantasms, and his disturbed personality is evident throughout his work after the later 1640s. |
|
|
Vase of Flowers Carlo Dolci2.jpg Painting ID:: 979
|
1665-75
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Odilon Redon
|
|
|
French Symbolist Painter, 1840-1916
Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 ?C July 6, 1916) was a Symbolist painter and printmaker, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Odilon was a nickname derived from his mother, Odile.
Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. At age 15, he began formal study in drawing but on the insistence of his father he switched to architecture. His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris?? Ecole des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he would later study there under Jean-L??on Gerôme.
Back home in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpture, and Rodolphe Bresdin instructed him in etching and lithography. However, his artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he joined the army to serve in the Franco-Prussian War.
At the end of the war, he moved to Paris, working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. It would not be until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with Guardian Spirit of the Waters, and he published his first album of lithographs, titled Dans le R??ve, in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans titled, À rebours (Against Nature). The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings.
In the 1890s, he began to use pastel and oils, which dominated his works for the rest of his life. In 1899, he exhibited with the Nabis at Durand-Ruel's. In 1903 he was awarded the Legion of Honor. His popularity increased when a catalogue of etchings and lithographs was published by Andr?? Mellerio in 1913 and that same year, he was given the largest single representation at the New York Armory Show. In 1923 Mellerio published: Odilon Redon: Peintre Dessinateur et Graveur. An archive of Mellerio's papers is held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 2005 the Museum of Modern Art launched an exhibition entitled "Beyond The Visible", a comprehensive overview of Redon's work showcasing more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints and books from The Ian Woodner Family Collection. The exhibition ran from October 30, 2005 to January 23, 2006. |
|
|
Vase of Flowers Odilon Redon24.jpg Painting ID:: 3355
|
Ian Woodner Family Collection, New York |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
|
|
|
stilllife masters, Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1606-C.1683 |
|
|
Vase of Flowers Jan Davidsz. de Heem10.jpg Painting ID:: 10196
|
1645Oil on canvas
69,6 x 56,5 cm
National Gallery
of Art, Washington |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
|
|
|
stilllife masters, Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1606-C.1683 |
|
|
Vase of Flowers Jan Davidsz. de Heem17.jpg Painting ID:: 10203
|
Oil on canvas,
87,5 x 67,5 cm
The Hermitage,
St. Petersburg |
|
|
|
|
|
|
HUYSUM, Jan van
|
|
|
Dutch Painter, 1682-1749
Dutch painter of still life and landscapes. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659?C1716), a successful landscape and genre painter of Amsterdam. Although he painted landscapes in a classical style, Jan is best known for his flower and fruit still lifes in oil and in watercolor. These are distinguished for their brilliant light and shade effects, delicacy of coloring, and exquisite finish. They are to be found in most of the leading European museums |
|
|
Vase of Flowers new4/HUYSUM, Jan van-287572.jpg Painting ID:: 30926
|
mk68
1722
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|