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A. V. Ilango (born March 17, 1950) is an Indian painter. He was born in Gobichettipalayam, a small town in Tamil Nadu.
Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 - June 22, 1928) was an early American illustrator, graphic artist, and comics writer. He was also well known as a painter. Frost's work is well known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence. Frost is considered one of the great illustrators in the "Golden Age of American Illustration".
A. B. Jackson was an African American painter.
Alfred Joseph Casson, OC (May 17 1898 - February 20 1992) was a member of the Canadian group of painters, the Group of Seven. He joined the group in 1926 after an invitation from Franklin Carmichael. Casson is best know for his depiction of landscapes, forests and farms of southern Ontario, and being the youngest member of the Group of Seven.
Ralf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck (born 5 October 1939) is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor.
A. Ramachandran [http://www.artoframachandran.com] is a renowned Indian painter, born in 1935 in Attingal, Kerala. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, the highest honour in art conferred by the Government of India; three years later, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, for outstanding service to the nation.[1]
Alexander Young Jackson, CC , CMG (born October 3, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec, died April 5, 1974 in Kleinburg, Ontario) was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.
A Picture of Britain is a 2005 BBC television documentary series presented by David Dimbleby, which describes the British landscape and the art which it has inspired. In each of the six 1-hour episodes Dimbleby explores a different British region and discusses the ways that its landscape and culture have influenced painters, poets and composers.
A Thing of Beauty is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1956, with the alternate title of Crusader's Tomb. It tells the story of Stephen Desmonde, an English painter who struggles for recognition in a conventional world, sacrificing everything for his passion for art. The title is a reference to John Keats' 1818 poem, Endymion, which begins, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 – February 3, 1979) was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Aaron Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his entire life in New England.
Aart Kemink (1914-2006) (variant names Arie Kemink, Art Kemink, Art Kamink) was a Dutch-Canadian painter, born in 1914 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Aasta Hansteen, (born December 10, 1824 - April 13, 1908), was a Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist.
Abati is a surname and may refer to: Joël Abati (born 1970), French handball player Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509 or 1512-1571), Italian painter
Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as shown by the fact that his paintings are in the most important U.S. art collections.
Abby Jackson (born 1982) is a British artist, Stuckist painter, writer and art activist.
The Abd-el-Tif prize was an award for painter artists. Decreed on contest, it was created in 1907 under the impulse of Leonce Bénédite, conservative of the Museum of Luxembourg and Claude Jonnart, general governor of Algeria, in order to make it possible to young talented artists to remain one year or two, sometimes more, with the expenses of the State in the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers.
The abduction and murder of Jakub Fiszman (1956–1996) was a crime that took place in Eschborn, Germany, in 1996. The investigation and trial of the perpetrators, house painter Rainer Körppen and his son Sven Körppen, produced substantial public and media attention, including TV documentaries. In the 2000s, it also spawned a series of lawsuits related to the privacy of the perpetrators.
Abed Abdi (born February 1942, Haifa, Mandate Palestine) is an Arab Israeli painter, graphic designer, sculpturer and lecturer of the arts.
Adah Isaacs Menken (15 June, 1835 - August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet.
Abdul Qadir Al Rassam,عبد القادر الرسام), 1952 - 1882), was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He was the first well-known painter in modern Iraq and the leader of realism school in Iraq. He studied military science and art at the Military College, Istanbul, Turkey, (then the capital of the Ottoman Empire) from 1904.
Abdulcelil Levni, or shortly known as Levni, (b. Abdulcelil Çelebi, late 17th century, Edirne – d. 1732, Istanbul) was an Ottoman court painter and miniaturist.
Abdullah Gërguri (1931-1994) was a Kosovo Albanian painter, an important artist in restoration and conservation of the icons and frescoes. Gërguri was born in the village Sibofc of Podujevo, in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
Abdul Rahman Chughtai (1899–1975), is a painter from Pakistan.
Abel Salazar (19 July 1889, Guimarães - 29 December 1946, Lisbon), was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher and painter who worked and lived in Porto.
Abidin Dino, (March 23 1913 – December 7 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter.
Abner Dubic (born 1944) is a Haitian painter. Born in Léogane, Dubic has exhibited his works in the United States and France. His works are sold in galleries in New York City, Chicago, and Paris.
Abolhassan Sadighi (Persian استاد ابوالحسن خان صدیقی Ostād Abolhassan khān Sadighī) (1894 – 1995) was one of the most prominent Iranian sculptors and painters and was known as the Master Sadighi.
Abraham Begeyn (ca. 1637, Leiden - Jun 11 1697, Berlin) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle in the manner of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem.
Abraham Bloemaert (1566, Gorinchem - January 27, 1651, Utrecht), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving.
Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp, 1589–9 September 1626) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1607–1608, and subsequently trained several other painters in including Alexander Keirincx.
Abraham Janssens (or Jansens) van Nuyssen (c. 1567/1576 - 1632) was a Flemish painter.
Abraham Mauricio Salazar is a Nahuatl Indian living in Oaxaca, Mexico. For most of his life, Salazar has been working as a farmer, painter, and teacher. His primary medium is papel amate, a folk craft tradition that the Nahuatls have used for over two millennia. The painting style takes its name from the medium that is used – “papel amate”, paper that is made from the bark of the ficus tree.
Abraham Storck (or Sturckenburch) (bapt. Apr 17 1644, Amsterdam - buried Apr 8 1708, Amsterdam) was a Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era.
Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with the Early American Moderns working in the Modernist style. He was born in Siberia, Russia and emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood where he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean Paul Laurence.
Abraham Willaerts (ca. 1603, Utrecht - October 18, 1669, Utrecht) was a Dutch Baroque painter, mostly of marine and harbor scenes.
Abraham Hendriksz van Beijeren (ca. 1620 The Hague - March 1690 Rotterdam) was a Dutch Baroque era painter. He was little regarded in his day but is now considered one of the greatest of still-life painters. Van Beijeren (alternatively spelled "Beyeren") lived in a succession of Dutch towns. Born in The Hague, the artist also lived in Delft, Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Gouda. In 1678 he settled in Rotterdam, where he died in 1690.
Abraham van Diepenbeeck (bapt. May 9 1596, 's-Hertogenbosch - May-Sept. 1675, Antwerp) was an erudite and accomplished Dutch painter of the Flemish School.
Abraham van der Waeyen Pieterszen (May 14 1817 - April 16 1880) was a Dutch-born painter, trained in Antwerp. From 1844 Pieterszen worked as a deacon, later as a preacher for the Protestant Union of Belgium in Antwerp, Brussels, Mecheln and Leuven, finally in Maria-Horebeke.
Abram Belskie was born on March 24, 1907 in London, England and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a painter and started classes at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1926. Prize money allowed him to study on the Continent. Upon his return to Glasgow, he opened his own studio. He also worked as an assistant to other sculptors and taught at the Glasgow School of Art.
The Acheloos Painter (active around 525 - 500 BCE. in Athens) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. He received his name after a representation of the fight of the river God Acheloos and Herakles on Amphora F 1851 in the Berlin Antique collection.
Achenbach is a German surname and may refer to: Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910), German painter Joel Achenbach, American journalist Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905), German painter Timo Achenbach (born 1982), German footballer *Max Alvary (1856-1898), originally Maximilian Achenbach, German tenor
Achille Calici (born c. 1565) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, and early Baroque. He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil first of Prospero Fontana, then of Lodovico Carracci. He painted the two laterals of the high altar in the church of San Michele Arcangelo at Bologna, representing St. Michael, and the angel Raphael and Tobias.
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (February 6, 1800 – December 23, 1857) was a French painter and lithographer. His father was a civil employee of the navy and student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte (1770–1828).
Achille Emperaire (1829 - 1898) was a French painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne's.
The Achilles Painter, working from the 460s to the 420s BC, is the pseudonym of an Attic Greek vase-painter of outstanding quality (see Pottery of Ancient Greece), whose refined figure of Achilles on a red-figure amphora of ca. 450–445 BCE in the Vatican Museum inspired Sir John Beazley to name its anonymous draftsman the "Achilles Painter." The Vatican amphora is thus the namepiece of the "Achilles Painter".
Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913–August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. He was also a critic of abstract expressionism. Reinhardt's earliest exhibited paintings avoided representation, but show a steady progression away from objects and external reference.
Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers.
Adalgisa Nery (October 29, 1905 – June 7, 1980) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1922 she married Ismael Nery (1900–1934), a painter and poet who introduced Adalgisa to a circle of Brazilian artists and intellectuals that included Manuel Bandeira, Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes.
Adam Brooks (b. July 3, 1979) is a Canadian painter, filmmaker, and musician.
Adam Cvijanovic (b.1960, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a painter based in New York City. He paints large-scale views of city suburbs onto Tyvek sheeting, which can be easily transported from place to place.
Adam Emory Albright (1862 - 1957) was a painter of figures in landscapes. He was born in Monroe, Wisconsin and spent his working life in the Chicago area, dying at Warrenville, Illinois.
Adam Friedrich Oeser (February 17 1717 in Bratislava - March 18 1799 in Leipzig) was a German etcher, painter and sculptor. He worked and studied in Bratislava (student of Georg Raphael Donner in sculpture) and Vienna at the Vienna Academy (painting). In 1739 he went to Dresden, painted portraits, scenes for the Royal opera, and mural paintings in Castle Hubertsburg (1749), and removed to Leipzig in 1759.
Adam Marczyński (1908–1985) was a Polish painter. He died in Kraków. Marczyński came into his own as an artist of post-war Kraków.
Adam Saks (born 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish painter who lives and works in Berlin.
Adam Willaerts (July 21 1577, London - April 4 1664, Utrecht ) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period.
Adam de Coster (c. 1586–1643) was a Flemish Baroque painter working under the influence of Caravaggism. Originally from Mechelen, he is listed in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke as a master in 1607–1608. Although there is no information regarding a trip to Italy, his early adoption of the strong chiaroscuro and use of half-length figures illuminated by "candlelight" suggests that he might have made this journey.
Adam van Noort (1561–1641) was a successful Antwerp painter and draughtsman in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the teacher to both Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens, the latter of whom became his son-in-law. Van Noort was dean of the Guild of St. Luke from 1597 until 1602. He collaborated with Marten de Vos on the decorations for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Ernest of Austria in 1594, and painted numerous small paintings of religious subjects.
Adel Nassief is a Coptic painter with special interest in Coptic art. He has some work on the external wall of a Coptic church in Paris and some work in Egypt in Cairo modern art museum and in Coptic churches in Damanhour and Alexandria.
Adolf Born (born June 12 1930) is a Czech painter and illustrator, caricaturist and film-maker.
Adolf Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German artist/painter. His style developed from Impressionism to expressive modernism.
Adolf Kašpar (born 27 December 1877 in Bludov, died 29 June 1934 in Železná Ruda), was a Czech painter and illustrator.
Adolf Seel (1 March, 1829–14 February, 1907) was a German painter. He enjoyed training at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts.
Adolf Wissel (19 April 1894 – 17 November 1973) was a German painter. He was one of the official artists of Nazism.
Adolf Ziegler (Bremen, 16 October 1892 – Varhnalt, 18 September 1959) was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Degenerate art", made by most of the German modern artists. He was the favoured painter of Hitler.
Adolfas Valeška (b. March 15, 1905, near Vilkaviškis; d. May 11, 1994 in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Lithuania and in Chicago, Illinois.
Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter. He was born Felice Adolfo Muller on March 29, 1862 at Airolo, in the Ticino in Switzerland, into a prominent patrician family whose lineage descended from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne and Doge Pietro Orseolo of Venice, and by the 18th and 19th centuries included mercenaries, lawyers, hoteliers and businessmen.
Adolfo Cristobal Winternitz, Adolf Gustav Winternitz(-)Wurmser (October 20, 1906, Vienna – June 17, 1993, Lima) was an Austrian-Peru Jewish painter.
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.
Adolph Northen (also credited as Adolf Northen, Adolf Northern or Adolph Northern) (November 6 1828 - May 28 1876) was a 19th century German painter. He was born in Münden, Hannover and was a pupil of Düsseldorf Painting Academy.
Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876) was a Norwegian painter who was born in Mandal in 1814. At this time there were no art schools in Norway, so he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark at the age of 18 to attend the art academy. He studied there for five years and then began a journey to Italy to study further. But when Tidemand came to Düsseldorf, Germany, he liked it so much that he settled down there.
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14 1824 - June 29 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists.
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (January 24, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.
Adolphe-Léon Willette (1857–1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer.
Adolphe Yvon (1817 - 1893) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars.
The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is signed and dated at 1496. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence.
The Adoration of the Magi is a panting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, from 1462.
The Adoration of the Shepherds , sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity or "Adoration", after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian painter of the Renaissance, Giorgione, in about 1500. The attribution is now usual, although not universal. It is certainly a Venetian painting of that period. It is displayed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., United States.
Adriaen Brouwer (1605, Oudenaarde - January 1638, Antwerp) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Adriaen Hanneman (1603-1671) was a seventeenth-century Dutch painter best-known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony Van Dyck.
Adriaen Isenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490 – Bruges, July 1551), also known as Adrien Ysenbrandt, was a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter, who specialized in religious subjects and devotional paintings. His name is also spelled as Isenbrant, Ysenbrant, Ysenbrandt or Hysebrant. He is believed to be the anonymous Master of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin.
Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger (1587, Antwerp- buried July 7 1658, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and engraver of the Baroque period. Adrien the elder was born to a family of artists of Flemish origin from Antwerp. They probably moved to Amsterdam in 1589, because they were protestants. Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger and his brothers became painters. Adriaen the Younger was a pupil of Pieter Isaacsz and Frans Badens in Amsterdam.
Adriaen van Ostade (bapt. Adriaen Hendricx December 10 1610 – bur. May 2 1685) was a Dutch genre painter.
Adriaen van Utrecht (Antwerp, 1599–1652) was a celebrated Flemish Baroque still life painter of the Antwerp school.
Adrian van de Velde (bapt. Nov 30 1636, Amsterdam – bur. Jan 21 1672, Amsterdam), was a Dutch animal and landscape painter, son of Willem van de Velde, the elder and brother of William van de Velde, the younger, the marine painter.
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589, Delft – Nov 12 1662, The Hague) was a Dutch Baroque painter. He lived in Middelburg from 1614 and was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. He worked as a book illustrator and print designer. Van de Venne moved to The Hague and joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1625, taking the position of dean in 1637.
Adriaen van der Cabel (1631, Ryswick - June 16, 1705, Lyon) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch school. He grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, in the western Netherlands. This town was also the hometown of Edin, another Dutch painter from the area. Cabel was also know as Adri'tje
Adriaen van der Werff (Kralingen, Jan 21 1659 – Rotterdam, Nov 12 1722) was an accomplished Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant.
Adrian Dingle (1911-22 December 1974) was a painter whose career was based in Canada. He was also a creator of comic books during the 1940's.
Adrian Heath (1920–1992) was a 20th century British painter.
Adrian Henri (April 10, 1932 – December 21 2000) was a British poet and painter.
Adrian Jones (1845 - 1938) was an English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses. He was born in Ludlow, Shropshire and initially studied at the Royal Veterinary College; he subsequently joined the army as a veterinary officer, attaining the rank of Captain. It was after leaving the army in 1890 that he embarked on his artistic career.
Adrian Grant Morris (May 18 1929 – December 06 2004) was a British painter. He was sent to Vermont, USA during World War II. He worked in a minimal style of his own. He was active in the Chelsea art and social scenes of the 1960s, and a friend of Yoko Ono. His career includes a one-man show in 1955, and several group shows. Morris disliked selling his paintings and did not belong to any school, yet he was admired by other artists.
Adrian Searle is the chief art critic of The Guardian newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. Previously he was a painter. He curates art shows and also writes fiction.
Adriano Palladino (c. 1610-1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and active in Cortona, although he was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome.
Adrien Taunay the younger was a French painter and draftsman. He was born in Paris in 1803, the son of history and genre painter Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830). Adrien moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1816, accompanying his father, who was a member of the French Artistic Mission. Adrien was the junior draftsman aboard the French vessel of exploration "Uranie", commanded by Captain Louis de Freycinet.
Adrienne King (born 4 February 1960) is an American actress and painter.
Adèle Kindt (16 December 1804–1884) was a Belgian painter, the leading female painter of the 1820s to 1840s.
Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy, née Billet (1765-1825) was a French poet and painter from Brittany.
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (April 11, 1749 – April 24, 1803) was a French history and portrait painter.
Aegidius Sadeler (sometimes written Egidius, or Gilles) (c. 1570 - 1629) was a Flemish baroque era painter and engraver; the best (Hind) of a notable dynasty of engravers, who were also significant as dealers and distributors of prints. He spent most of his career based in Prague where Emperor Rudolf II commissioned many of his works.
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 - November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon.
Alan Davie (born 1920) is a painter and musician. He was born in Skinflats, Falkirk and studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists. He also has a great love for Cornwall.
Aleksandr Davydovich Drevin (, 3 July 1889, Cēsis, Latvia – 26 February 1938, near Moscow) was a Russian painter.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov (16th May 1910 - 15th March 1972) was an acclaimed Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was highly popular but courted controversy among art critics and other artists.
Afro Basaldella (March 4, 1912 in Udine–July 24, 1976 in Zurich) was an Italian painter. He was generally known by the single name Afro.
Agatharchus (Gr. Ἀγάθαρχος) was a self-taught painter from Samos who lived in the 5th century BC. He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scene-painting, and to have painted a scene (scenam fecit) for a tragedy which Aeschylus exhibited. Hence some writers, such as Karl Woermann, have supposed that he introduced perspective and illusion into painting.
Aghinetti, also called Guccio del Sero, was an Italian painter, active in Florence, active in 1331, He had a nephew, exiled Maestro Gurcio, who died in 1409.
Agnes Martin Barley (born October 5, 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida), is a minimalist abstract painter.
Agnes Boulton was a successful "pulp fiction" writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill. Prior to their marriage, she wrote for such magazines as Breezy Stories, Snappy Stories, and Young's Magazine. Boulton was born in 1891, 1892, or 1893 (depending on your source) in England, the daughter of Cecil and Edward W. Boulton (a painter), but grew up in Philadelphia and later in West Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist, although she considered herself an abstract expressionist.
Agni Yoga, also called the "Teaching of Living Ethics" or (in Russian) the Живая этика (Zhivaya etika), is an esoteric teaching founded by the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovitch Rerikh) and his highly adept empathic wife, Helena Roerich (Elena Ivanovna Rerikh). Inspired by the Vedic traditions, as well as by Buddhism and writings of H.P.
Agnolo Gaddi (born c. 1350, active 1369-1396, died 1396) was an Italian painter. He was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi.
Agostino Aglio (1777-1857) was an Italian painter, decorator, and engraver.
Agostino Apollonio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado, and painted around mid-1530s. He assisted his uncle Luzio Dolci. He lived in Castel Durante.
Agostino Beltrano (active in 1646, died in 1665) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period in his native city of Naples. He was a pupil of Massimo Stanzione, the uncle of his wife. He is said to have murdered his 36 yr old wife and painter, Aniella di Beltrano (also known as Aniella di Rosa), in a fit of jealousy.
Agostino Bonisoli (1633 - 1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona. He was the pupil of the slightly older painter Giovanni Battista Tortoroli, and later working with Luigi Miradoro. He painted a Life of St. Anthony for the church of San Francesco in Cremona. He painted in the style of Paolo Veronese.
Agostino Campanella (active 1770) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Florence. He engraved several prints representing historical and biblical subjects.
Agostino Carlini (1718?-August 1790) was an Italian sculptor and painter, who was born in Genoa but settled in England.
Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 - March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.
Agostino Ciampelli (1578-1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with Santi di Tito in Florence, and painted in Rome under Clement VIII, including a Crucifixion for Santa Prassede and a Saint Giovanni Gualberto in its sacristy; Angels on the walls above the choirstalls in the apse of Santa Maria in Trastevere; frescoes of the Stoning of Saint Vitale in San Vitale and further frescoes in the little church of Santa Bibiena; and The Visitation in Sant Stefano di Pescia.
Agostino Cornacchini (August 27,1686-1754) was an Italian sculptor and painter of the Rococo period, active mainly in Rome.
Agostino Lamma (1636- 1700) was an Italian painter, active in Venice and specializing in battle paintings. He was trained under Antonio Calza, and his Siege of Vienna by the Turks, painted in the style of Mattias Stom. He died in Venice.
Agostino Masucci (c. 1691 - 19 October, 1758) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
Agostino Mitelli (March 16, 1609 - August 2, 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period as a painter of quadratura. He was born in Battidizzo, near Bologna. He died in Madrid, while working for the court of Philip IV of Spain. He was a pupil of Gabriele Ferrantini(degli Occhiali), Girolamo Curti, and colleague of Michelangelo Colonna in Bologna. Examples of his quadratura can be found at Bologna, Parma, Modena, Florence, Rome, and Genoa, testifying to the popularity of the style.
Agostino Scilla (August 10, 1629-May 31, 1700) was an Italian painter, paleontologist, geologist, and pioneer in the study of fossils.
Agostino Tassi (1578‑1644) was an Italian painter, mostly of landscapes and seascapes.
is a Japanese painter in the nihonga style of watercolour painting.
Agustino Da Vaprio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was living in Pavia in the 15th century, and was one of the artists employed by Ludovico Sforza in Milan, in 1490. He is the author of an altar-piece in San Rimo, Pavia, a Virgin and Child with Saints and donor, dated 1499.
Agustín Esteve y Marqués (May 12, 1753 – 1830) was a Spanish painter.
Agustín Ibarrola (born 1930) is a Spanish painter and sculptor.
Agustín Leonardo was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Ahn Gyeon, was a painter of the early Joseon period. He was born in Jigok, Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do. He entered royal service as a member of the Dohwaseo, the official painters of the Joseon court, and drew Mongyu dowondo (몽류도원도) for Prince Anpyeong in 1447.
Ai Xuan (艾軒, 1947 - ) is a Chinese painter born on November 11, 1947 in Zhejiang Jinhua.
Aidan Hughes is a commercial artist. He was born in 1956 in Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter.
Ai-Mitsu (Japanese: 靉光) was a Japanese artist and painter. He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres.
Aimo Maggi (31 May, 1756 - 9 December, 1793) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic periods, mainly active in his natal city of Brescia.
Aimé Morot was a French painter. He was born in 1850 at Nancy and died in 1913 at Dinard. He was the son-in-law of Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Aina Onabolu (1882-1963) was a pioneering Nigerian modern arts teacher and painter who was an important figure in the introduction of arts into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country. He was also the major figure in Nigeria that promoted the drawing of environmental forms in a verisimilitudinous style and was known for his early modern work in portraiture.
Ainslie Roberts (12 March 1911 – 28 August 1993) was an Australian painter, photographer and commercial artist. He is best known his for interpretations of Aboriginal legends in his Dreamtime books, written in collaboration with ethnologist/anthropologist Charles Mountford.
Ajaz Anwar is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a teacher at National College of Arts Lahore. His watercolour paintings show the grandeur of the old buildings and the cultural life in Lahore.
Aki Kuroda (黒田アキ or 黒田明比古, born in Kyoto, October 04 ,1944) is a Japanese artist, painter, based in Paris, France.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (April 26 1865 – March 7 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic (illustration, below). His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity.
Alfred Leslie Buell (1910–1996) was an American painter of pin-up art. He was born in Hiawatha, Kansas in 1910, and grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma. He attended some classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, which, in concert with a trip to New York City, decided him on a career in art.
Al Feldstein (born October 24, 1925) is an American painter of Western wildlife and an influential author-editor who wrote, drew and edited for EC Comics, followed by a lengthy career as the editor of Mad. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003.
Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter.
Ala Bashir is an Iraqi plastic surgeon, sculptor, and painter. After gaining attention for his work treating soldiers during the Iraq-Iran War, Bashir became a medical counselor to Saddam Hussein. For more than 15 years, Bashir served the former dictator closely, a time period that is chronicled by the History Channel DVD "Saddam's Doctor: An Insider's Story."
Alain is a surname, and may refer to * Jehan Alain (1911-1940), French organist and composer * Alain Perdomo (still alive) dominican republic ones * Phil Alain (born 1968), Canadian painter
Alain Lestié is a French painter and writer, born in Hossegor in 1944.
Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised (co-written by Jeremy Robert Johnson).
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (June 12, 1824, Anizy-le-Château - June 4, 1887, Sèvres) was a French sculptor and painterfrom . He was the father of Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse.
Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 - July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator noted for his portraits of children.
G. Albert Aurier (1865 - October 51892) was a poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism.
Paul-Albert Bartholomé (1848 in Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines, France – 1928 in Paris), was a French painter and sculptor and is inhumed in the 4th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Albert Bierstadt (January 7 1830 - February 18 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large, detailed landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.
Albert Charles Challen (8 October 1847 – 1 September 1881) was a British artist. He is best known as the painter of a portrait of Mary Seacole in 1869, when she was around 65 years old. The rediscovery of the portrait was announced in January 2005, and it is held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Albert Chevallier Tayler (b. 1862 in Leytonstone, Essex - d. 1925) is an important English artist who specialized in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School. He was a member of the British Royal Academy of Painters, and he studied at Heatherley's School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and with avant gard painters in Paris.
Albert Christoph Dies (1755-1822) was a minor German painter and composer.
The Albert Cuyp Market is a street market in Amsterdam on the Albert Cuypstraat between Fredinand Bolstraat and Van Woustraat, in the De Pijp area of the "Oud-Zuid" district of the city. The street and market are named for Albert Cuyp, a 17th century painter.
Albert Dubois-Pillet (Paris, October 28, 1846 - Le Puy, August 18 1890), was a French painter and army officer.
Albert Dubout (May 15, 1905 – 1976) was a French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor.
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter.
Albert Flamm (1823–1906) was a German landscape painter, born at Cologne. He was a pupil of Andreas Achenbach at Düsseldorf, where he settled after traveling in Italy. His pictures, the subjects of which were chosen almost exclusively from Italian scenery, command attention by their truthfulness to nature, careful execution, and bright and varied effects of color. One of his best productions is the "Approaching Storm in the Campagna" (1862).
Albert Gleizes (December 8, 1881 - June 23, 1953), was a French painter. Born Albert Léon Gleizes and raised in Paris, he was the son of a fabric designer who ran a large industrial design workshop. He was also the nephew of Léon Comerre, a successful portrait painter who won the 1875 Prix de Rome.
[[image:Albert_Guillaume.jpg\|thumb\|right\|- Those who do have cartridges... shoot! Those who do not... shoot also! Illustration by Albert Guillaume published in 1901 in Mon Sursis.]] Albert Guillaume, born February 14, 1873 - died 1942, was a French painter and caricaturist.
Albert Henry Krehbiel (November 25, 1873 - June 29, 1945) was an American impressionist painter.
Albert Henry Munsell (6 January 1858 – 28 June 1918) was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system.
Albert Herter (1871-1950) was an artist and painter. He was born in New York, New York, and studied in Paris and then in New York's Art Students League. His father, Christian Herter formed Herter Brothers with his brother Gustave.
Albert Hoffman (1915 - 1993) was an American painter and wood carver. Never progressing beyond a sixth-grade education, Hoffman earned his living operating a junkyard near Atlantic City, New Jersey. A self-taught artist, he found inspiration in narratives from the Torah; over his lifetime he produced over 250 carvings whose subjects were drawn from the Bible or from his Jewish background.
Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), English decorative painter, was born at York on the 4th of September 1841. He was the youngest of the fourteen children of the artist William Moore of York who in the first half of the 19th century enjoyed a considerable reputation in the North of England as a painter of portraits and landscape.
Albert Keller (April 27, 1844 – July 14, 1920) was a German painter.
Albert Kresch (b. 1922) is a New York School painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. One of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery in the 1930s, he exhibited in later years at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. He is best known for landscape and still life compositions painted with evocatively rhythmic forms and vibrant colors.
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauve movement.
Albert Moulton Foweraker (July 7, 1873 - January, 1942) was an English painter.
Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August1959), born Elea Namatjira , was one of Australia's most acclaimed visual artists. He was a Western Arrernte man, an Indigenous Australian of the Western MacDonnell Ranges area. Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's great artists, and perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter.
Albert Paris Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber; February 5, 1887 in Vienna – May 16, 1973 in Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian painter and writer.
Albert Pike Lucas (? - ) was an American landscape, figure, and portrait painter; also a sculptor. He was born in Jersey City, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1882-88) in Paris under Hébert and Boulanger and later under Courtois and Dagman-Bouveret. At the Salon of 1896 he won a medal. After a sojourn in Italy he settled in New York in 1902.
Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art historians regard as modernist.
Albert Schickedanz (or Schikedanz) (October 14, 1846 – July 11, 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style.
Albert Steffen (December 10, 1884, Murgenthal, Switzerland — July 13, 1963, Dornach, Switzerland) was a poet, painter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist. He joined the Anthroposophical Society in 1907 and became its president after the death of its founder, Rudolf Steiner, in 1925. Steffen was chief editor of the society's journal, Das Goetheanum, from 1921-1950.
Albert W. Wein, American sculptor born in New York City on July 27, 1915. He died in March 1991. His mother, Elsa Meher Wein was a portrait painter and it was through her that Wein was first introduced to art. He began his art studies at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts at the age of twelve, where his mother taught. In 1929 he and his family moved to New York City where he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design he studied with painter Ivan Olinsky.
Albert van Ouwater (c. 1410/1415–1475) was one of the earliest panel painters in the Northern Netherlands, soon after the discovery of the art of oil painting by Jan van Eyck.
Alberto Burri (Città di Castello, March 12, 1915 - Nice, February 13, 1995), was an Italian abstract painter and sculptor. Città di Castello has memorialized him with a large permanent museum of his works.
Alberto Carlieri (1672-after 1720) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Rome, where he was first of pupil of Giuseppe Marchi, but afterwards of Andrea Pozzo. He excelled in painting quadratura.
Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker.
Alberto Mijangos (born July 25 1925, Mexico City - June 19, 2007 San Antonio, Texas) was a Mexican American artist and painter.
Alberto Rizzo (1931-2004) was a fashion photographer and painter. He was born on May 2nd 1932 in La Spezia, Italy. His work has been published in various magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Paris Vogue and Vogue Italia. He lived and worked in New York City for over 40 years. He died in Miami, FL, in October 2004.
Alberto Savinio, real name Andrea De Chirico, (Athens, August 25 1891 - Florence, May 5 1952) was an Italian writer and painter, brother of the more famous Giorgio De Chirico.
Alberto Sughi (born October 5 1928) is an Italian painter.
Alberto Vargas (9 February 1896–30 December 1982) was a noted painter of pin-up girls and erotica. Born in Arequipa, Peru, Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez came to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe prior to World War I. His early career included work as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios.
Alberto di Giovanni Albert, or Berto di San Sepolcro (Sansepolcro 1525 – 1599) was a Tuscan architect, wood carver and painter, who was engaged as master carver at Arezzo, where he was responsible for the choir stalls in the Cathedral and at Rome (from 1564 to 1586). As a wood carver he specialized in wood inlays, or intaglie.
Albertus Pictor (Albert Pictor, also called Albert the Painter) (c. 1440 - c. 1507) was a Swedish painter. Albertus Pictor who was originally called Albertus Immenhusen was of German origin. Notable schemes of wallpaintings include those at Bromma kyrka, near Stockholm, and Täby Kyrkby kyrka in Täby.
Albin Egger-Lienz was an Austrian painter. He was born in Stribach near Lienz, Tyrol, Austria on January 29, 1868 and died on November 4, 1926 in St. Justina-Rentsch, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.
Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a German battles and horses painter.
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter and printmaker, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art.
Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a German painter and mathematician. He was born and died in Nuremberg, Germany and is best known as one of the greatest creators of old master prints, along with Rembrandt and Goya. His prints were often executed in series, including the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511).
Albín Brunovský (25 December 1935, Zohor - 20 January 1997, Bratislava) was a painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and pedagogue, considered one of the greatest Slovak painters of the 20th century.
Aldo Carpi (1886-1973) was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Aldo Locatelli (Bergamo, August 18, 1915 — Porto Alegre, September 3, 1962) was an Italian-Brazilian painter. His most important works the frescos and panels in churches and public buildings of Rio Grande do Sul.
Alejandro Bustillo (1889-1982) was an Argentine painter and architect who left his mark in various tourist destinations in Argentina, especially in the Andean region of the Patagonia.
Alejandro Ramírez Honda (January 29, 1952 in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla), is a Mexican painter. He not only works with oil, pastels, charcoal, pencil and ink, but also does graphic design, and serigraphy. His work it can be characterized mainly as Mexican prehispanic, ethnic, nationalist, landscape, portrait, postmodernism, religious and antireligious, erotic, eclectic, fiction, and social portrait.
Alejandro Lozano Morales, (March 17, 1939, La Toba, Guadalajara – March 30, 2003, Barcelona) was a Spanish artist, painter and mosaic muralist.
Daniel Alberto Alejandro María de la Santísima Trinidad Obregón Roses[http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/editorial/2007-04-11/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3510065.html] most commonly known as Alejandro Obregón (June 4, 1920 — April 11, 1992) was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.
Alejo Fernández (born c. 1475) was a Spanish painter of the sixteenth century best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus painted between 1505 and 1536.
Alekos Fassianos (, born in 1935) is a renowned Greek painter.
Aleksander Balos is a Polish artist and figurative painter, who lives in the United States and is a naturalised American.
Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (born 30 January, 1850 in Warsaw, died between 6 and 8 March, 1901 in Rome) - Polish painter of the late 19th century. He was the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski, equally renown Polish watercolour painter.
Aleksander Kobzdej (1920-1972) was a Polish painter. He was born in, what was then, the Ukraine. Kobzdej is best known for being one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish Social Realist group, and for being the creator of unique Polish versions of "matter" painting.
Aleksander Kotsis (born 1836 in Kraków, died 1877 in Podgórze) was a Polish painter renowned for his landscapes, portraits and genre depictions of contemporary rustic scenes.
Aleksander Orłowski (1777–1832) was a Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.
Aleksander Sochaczewski (March 3, 1843 — April 15, 1923) is a Polish painter, participant of the Polish January Uprising (1863) against the Russian Empire, exiled to Siberia. He is known for his paintings of the uprising and the Siberian katorga and exile.
Aleksander Warma VR I/3 (June 22, 1890 Kõnnu Parish, Estonia – December 23, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden) was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat and painter.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Makovsky (; 1869- 1924) was a Russian painter. He was born in Moscow, the son of the artist Vladimir Makovsky. and from 1894-5 studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg. He also studied in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. During the 1890's he was an active member in MTKh and was part of the Itinerant Movement from 1902, having begun exhibiting with them since 1899.
Aleksandr Andreyevich Samokhvalov (1894-1974) was a Russian painter and graphic artist.
Aleksandr (Vasilievich) Shevchenko (1883-1948) was a highly influential Russian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Russian art movement derives its name.
Aleksandra Belcova (March 17 1892 in Novozybkovo, Russia-February 1 1981 in Riga, Latvia) was a Latvian and Russian painter.
Aleksandra Dulic (born 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Canadian painter, animator, media artist and scholar. Her art and research involve a focus on computational poetics, media performance, situated media in the creation of interactive audiovisual installations and performances.
Alexandra Ekster or Exter (Александра Экстер) (January 6, 1882 - March 17, 1949) was a Russian-Ukrainian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one of the founders of Art Deco.
Alessandro Alberti (1551-1590) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was the eldest son of Alberto Alberti, was born at Borgo San Sepolcro in 1551. He trained with Gaspero di Silvestre of Perugia. In 1566, Alessandro's uncle Lodovico took him to Rome, where he subsequently much in conjunction with his brothers. He died at Rome, while engaged on the great work of decorating the Sala Clementina for Pope Clement VIII. Alessandro also worked at Borgo San Sepolcro, Naples, and Mantua.
Alessandro Albini (1568-1646) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. He was born in Bologna, and was an early pupil of the school of the Carracci. He was known for designs he made for the funeral ceremony of Agostino Carracci. He painted a Tomb of St. Valerian and St.Tibertius for the church of San Michèle in Bosco in Bologna, and paintings of St. Peter, St. Catherine, St. Agnes, and St. Cecilia for San Pietro Martyr.
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (May 3, 1535 - September 22, 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
Alessandro Araldi (c. 1460 – c. 1529) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma.
Alessandro Ardente (? - 1595) was an Italian painter during the late-Renaissance period. Born in Faenza. Active in Turin, Lombardy, and Lucca where he was well known as a portrait style. He painted a Conversion of St. Paul for the church of Monte della Pieta in Turin. He painted a Baptism of Christ for the church of San Giovanni and a St. Anthony Abbot (1565) for the church of San Paolino in Lucca .
Alessandro Aretusi was an Italian portrait painter of the 17th century from Modena, active in Florence painting for the court of the Grand-Dukes.
Alessandro Badiale (1626-1671) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. He was a pupil of Flaminio Torre. Among his etchings are prints of Virgin seated with the Infant Jesus, between St. Philip Neri and St. Anthony of Padua, a Deposition and a Holy Family after Flaminio Torre. He also made a Madonna with Child, who holds a cross and an apple after Cignani.
Alessandro Bardelli (1583-1633) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Uzzano in Pescia. He trained with the cavalier Francesco Currado and worked along Ludovico Cardi. Painted mainly in Pescia, including a fresco in the bishop's church. He died in Bologna.
Alessandro Casolano (1552-1606) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Siena. He was also called Alessandro della Torre. He was born at Siena, and was the pupil of Ventura Salimbeni and of Cristoforo Roncalli. His works are principally in the churches of Siena, but are also to be found in Naples and Genoa. He also etched one plate, a Madonna. His son, Ilario Casolano was also a painter.
Alessandro Gherardini (1655 - 1723) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence.
Alessandro Longhi (1733-1813) was a Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (mostly reproductions of paintings). He is known best for his oil portraits of Venetian nobles of state. His father was the famed genre painter Pietro Longhi. He trained under his father and Giuseppe Nogari (1609-1763). Like Sebastiano Bombelli in the prior century, Alessandro Longhi is noted for his zealous full-length depicitions of robes and emblems of office.
Alessandro Maganza (1556-1630) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, born and active in Vicenza, as well as in Venice.
Alessandro Magnasco also known as il Lissandrino (February 4, 1667–1749), was an Italian Rococo painter from Northern Italy. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
Alessandro Marchesini (1664- 1738) was an Italian painter and art merchant of the late-Baroque and Rococo, active in Northern Italy and Venice. He first trained in Verona with Biagio Falcieri and then with Calza. He then moved to Bologna, to work in the studio of Carlo Cignani. He is described as gaining fame for his allegories with small figures. He painted in Venice for the church of San Silvestro and in Verona for the church of San Stefano.
Alessandro Mari (1650-1707) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Alessandro Martucci (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active near his natal city of Capua. Hi son, Simio, painted quadratura and died in 1641.
Alessandro Prampolino (1827-1865)was an Italian landscape painter. He is known chielly by his views (vedute) of the neighbourhood of Tivoli and of the Roman Ruins. He was professor of painting in his native Reggio.
Alessandro Tiarini (March 20 1577 - February 8, 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
Alessandro Turchi (1578 - 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque, born and active mainly in Verona, and moving late in life to Rome. He also went by the name Alessandro Veronese or the nickname L'Obetto.
Alessandro Varotari (April 4, 1588 – July 20, 1649), (also commonly known as il Padovanino) was a Venetian painter of the late-mannerist and early-baroque styles, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, and Bartolommeo Scaligero.
Alessandro Vitali (1580-1650) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods. He was born at Urbino, was a follower of Federico Barocci.
Alessandro Vittoria (1525 – 1608) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, who was trained in the atelier of the architect-sculptor Jacopo Sansovino and a contemporary of Titian who was influenced by the painter in his compositions. He was a virtuoso in terracotta, marble and bronze. Like all Italian sculptors of his generation, Vittoria was influenced also by Michelangelo and by the Florentine Mannerist, Bartolomeo Ammanati.
Alesso Baldovinetti (October 14, 1427—August 29, 1499) was an Italian early Renaissance painter.
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (?March 13, 1864 – March 15, 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München), the Blue Rider group (Der Blaue Reiter). He was also a member of the Blue Four.
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (Russian: Алексей Петрович Боголюбов; 16 March 1824 - 3 February 1896) was a Russian landscape painter.
Alex Arcadia (b. January 5, 1971) is a contemporary American painter, sculptor and conceptual artist whose work is compared to Jeff Koons, Hans Bellmer, Andy Warhol and Constantin Brancusi.
Alex Berdisheff (born in 1964, Tbilisi) is a contemporary Georgian painter.
David Alexander Colville, PC, CC, ONS, BFA, LL.D (born August 24 1920 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian painter.
Alex McDowell was born in Borneo to parents of English origin, and he is a production designer.McDowell wanted to become a painter and studied at the Central School of Art in London. He founded Rocking Russian Design in 1978 and started his career designing album covers for punk rock groups. During the 1980s, he designed the sets for various commercials and music videos.Alex McDowell has worked, among others, with the directors Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Alex Proyas.
Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work. Ross is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superheroes.
Alex Schomburg (born 1905, Puerto Rico; died 1998) was a prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.
Alex van Warmerdam (born August 14, 1952 in Haarlem) is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.
– July 15 (July 3 [OS]), 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries.
Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian (1937-2003) was an Ethiopian-Armenian painter.
Alexander Cooper (before 1609 - 1660) was an English miniature painter. He was the elder brother of Samuel Cooper. The date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been born in London.
Alexander Cozens (d. 1786), was a landscape-painter in water-colours, a published teacher of painting, and a natural son of Peter the Great.
Alexander Alexandrovich Deyneka (Russian: Александр Александрович Дейнека; May 20, 1899, Kursk - June 12, 1969, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He is one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painter of the 1st half of the 20th century.
Alexander Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29, 1892 in New York, New York. He was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among other places.
Alexander Ivanov is the name of the following people: Alexander Ivanov (wrestler), a Russian Amateur Olympic Wrestler Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806–1858), a Russian painter Alexander Ivanov (chess) (born 1956), a Russian-born American chess player Alexandr Ivanovich Ivanov, a Soviet footballer *Alexandr Ivanov (athlete) (born 1982), a Russian javelin thrower
Alexander Jackson is the name of Alexander Young Jackson - Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven Alexander Jackson - British sport shooter who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
Alexander Kanoldt (September 29, 1881 – January 24, 1939) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity.
Alexander Keirincx (Antwerp, 23 January 1600–Amsterdam, 1652) was a Flemish Baroque painter who spent his later career in the Dutch Republic.. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1619, and like his teacher Abraham Govaerts he initially specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo.
Alexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741, Warsaw - 5 November 1819, Paris), also Alexandre Kucharsky, was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky, but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski.
Alexander Liberman (Sept. 4, 1912-Nov. 19, 1999) was a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor. Born in Kiev, he was educated in Paris, where he began his publishing career with the early pictorial magazine Vu. After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Conde Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director, which he held from 1962-1994.
Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (; 1835, Kremenchuk - 28 June, 1890, Saint Petersburg) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter who specialized in depicting Muscovite Russia of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Alexander Louis Leloir (1843 - 1884) was a French painter. His younger brother was painter and playwright Maurice Leloir.
Alexander Mann (January 22, 1853 - January 26, 1908) was a Scottish landscape and genre painter. He was a member of New English Art Club and Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Alexander Maxovich Shilov ( born October 6 1943) is a prominent Russian portrait painter.
Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 1758–10 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the “father of Scottish landscape painting".
Alexander Ney (Russian: Александр Нэй) (born 1939, in Leningrad, Russia) is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms.
Alexander Alexandrovich Osmerkin (; - June 25 1953) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and scene decorator. He was a member of the Knave of Diamonds avant-garde group, AKhRR, and Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh) groups.
Alexander Petrovich Pogrebinsky (Russian: Александр Петрович Погребинский) (January 2, 1951 -) is a Russian-born American painter, the creator of the school of philosophical realism. He is known for his portraits, and especially for the mastery of detail in his paintings.
Alexander Roslin (July 15, 1718 - July 5 1793) was a Swedish-French portrait painter born in Malmö. Married 1759 to Marie-Suzanne Giroust. Roslin was mostly working in Paris from 1750 and onward.
Alexander Joseph Rummler (July 25, 1867 – 1959) was an American painter.
Alexander Runciman (August 15,1736–October 4, 1785), was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter.
Alexander Samuel MacLeod, also known as A. S. MacLeod, was a painter and printmaker. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada on April 12, 1888. MacLeod studied at McGill University. After moving to San Francisco, he continued his artistic training at the California School of Design under Frank Van Sloun.
Alexander Seik (September 6, 1824 -October 2, 1905), also known as Alex Sejk was a pioneer of Czech photography, one of foremost exponents of chromophotography, painter and mayor of city Tábor.
Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Александр Николаевич Серов in Cyrillic; Aleksandr Nikolaevič Serov in transliteration) (11/23 Jan. 1820- 20 Jan./1 Feb. 1871 was a Russian composer and music critic. He was also the father of the painter Valentin Serov.
Alexander Theobald Van Lear was an American painter, born at Auburn, New York.
Alexander Vasilievich Kuprin was a Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group. Kuprin was born in Borisoglebsk (in Voronezh Oblast, Russia) in 1880 and died in Moscow in 1960. His most famous works are various landscape and still life.
Alexander G. Weygers, (October 12, 1901–July 23, 1989), was a polymath American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, philosopher, and author. He was born in Java, Indonesia, to Dutch parents. Gaining his formal education in the Netherlands, Weygers was a practicing engineer when he immigrated to the United States of America at the age of 30 to take residence in Seattle.
Alexandr Guristyuk is a Ukrainian painter.
Alexandr Vladimír Hrska (May 9, 1890 – October 23, 1954) was a Czech painter, graphic designer and scenographer.
Alexandr Pavlovich Zhdanov (; January 11 1938 - July 18 2006) was a Russian avant-garde painter.
Alexandra Nechita (b. August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.
Alexandre-François Caminade (Paris, 1783 – Paris, 1862) was a French painter.
Alexandre-François Desportes (Champigneul, Marne 24 February, 1661 — Paris 20 April, 1743) was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (March 3 1803–August 22 1860) was a French painter.
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757-1841) was a French painter known for his landscapes.
Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna ( b. March 7 1817 in Orléans, France – February 26 1878 in Paris) was a French painter.
F. Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) [http://www.photo.rmn.fr/c/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=12&FP=21584983&E=22S39UWOJA15V&SID=22S39UWOJA15V&New=T&Pic=3] was born in Toulouse, Frances in 1813 and was a painter of the Romantic period. He specialized in Orientalism and studied under Eugene Delacroix, but with an artist’s eye for precision and perfection, he soon developed his own style. During Bida’s youth, he traveled and worked in Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and Palestine.
Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823–23 January 1889) was a French painter.
Alexandre Calame (May 28, 1810 – March 19, 1864), was a Swiss painter.
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (September 7, 1831, Toulouse - April 20, 1900, Paris) was a French sculptor and painter.
Alexandre Grégoire (August 29 1922 – July 28 2001) was a Haitian painter who typically depicted scenes of Vodou, daily life, and historical events in the naïve style.
Alexandre Istrati (1915-1991) was a Franco-Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes, including the Kandinsky Prize.
Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev, ; - 12 May 1938) was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher.
Alexandro Loarte was a Spanish painter, active during the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque period. He was born in Toledo and initially trained with El Greco. He painted a Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1622) for the Mission Friars and a hunting painting with Hens and Chickens (1626).
Alexandros Christofis or Alexandros Hristofis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Χριστόφης, 1875-1957) was a Greek painter.
Alexandros Tzannis ( born 1979, Athens) is a newcomer Greek artist. He is a painter based in Berlin. Tzannis’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums, such as the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany , the New Benaki Museum, Athens and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is represented by The Breeder in Athens.
Alexandru Ciucurencu (1903-1977) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter.
Alexei Petrovich Antropov (; - ) was a Russian barocco painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and fresco-ed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures and icons.
Alexei Vasilyevich Grischenko (1883-1977) was a Russian painter.
Alexei Alexeievich Harlamoff (A.K.A Alexej Harlamoff - Alexej Charlamoff) (1842-1923) was a Russian painter.
Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (May 24, 1830–October 8, 1897) was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.
Alexey Steele (born March 19, 1967) is an American painter of the Russian Representational School and a Soviet Art scholar. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Steele gained recognition for his unusual multi-figure compositions of an exceptionally large scale. His areas of expertise also include portraits, nudes and plein-air landscapes. Based on his interviews, Steele expresses strong interest in the direction of art in the 21st century.
Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov (; 1801-59) was a Russian painter. Early in his career he painted icons with his brother; he then traveled to St. Petersburg to study at the Academy, where he took lessons with Alexei Venetsianov. From 1836 he was a pupil of Karl Bryullov. Tyranov chiefly painted portraits and genre scenes; he exhibited at a number of venues in the city throughout the 1830s and 40s.
Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (; 18 February 1780–04 January 1847) was a Russian painter, renown for his paintings devoted to the peasant life and ordinary people.
Alfons Karpiński (February 20, 1875 in Rozwadów near Tarnobrzeg - June 6, 1961 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish painter.
Alfons (or Alphonse) Maria Mucha (July 24, 1860–July 14, 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist.
Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, or Alfons Cibulka (* June 28 1888, Ratboř Castle (Schloss Radborsch) near Kolín, Bohemia - October 22, 1969, Munich) was a Czech-Austrian writer and painter.
Alfonso Aldiverti (early 17th century) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period, active mainly in Rovigo.
Alfonso Arana (1927-2005) was a Puerto Rican painter.
Alfonso Boschi (1615-1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of his brother Francesco Boschi.
Alfonso Rivarola (1607-1640) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ferrara.
Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache (29 August, 1843 – 15 September, 1915), also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter.
Alfred Downing Fripp (April 22, 1822, Bristol - March 13, 1895, London) was a British artist who specialised in watercolours of rural subjects. He was grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock, a brother of the painter George Arthur Fripp, and father of the surgeon Sir Alfred Downing Fripp.
Alfred Edward Chalon (born 15 February 1780 in Geneva, died 3 October 1860 in Kensington) was a Swiss portrait painter. He lived in London where he was noticed by Queen Victoria.
Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American painter born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer. At age sixteen, Maurer quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris where he stayed the next four years, joining a circle of American and French artists. At the time, Maurer's style was realist.
Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery.
Alfred Hrdlicka (born 27 February 1928 in Vienna) is an Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and artist of Czech origin. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička.
Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German historical painter.
Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who lived and worked in France.
Alfred Stevens (1828-1906) was a Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (1818-1875) was a British sculptor
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1,1864 – July 13,1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. Many of his photographs are known for appearing like those other art forms, and he is also known for his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe, most famous for her large-scale paintings of flowers.
Alfred Sully (22 May, 1821 - 27 April, 1879), was a military officer during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars on the frontier. He was also a noted painter.
Alfred Thomas Agate (born February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York; died January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist.
Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (1849 – 1915) was a Polish painter of the Munich school, one of the most popular among Jozef Brandt and Władysław Czachórski. Wierusz-Kowalski settled in Munich in 1873 just after his studies in Warsaw and Dresden. He studied for a year at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and then under Josef Brandt. His paintings which received medals at numerous exhibitions where sought-after by collectors and German art dealers.
Alfred William (Willy) Finch (Brussels 1854 – Helsinki 1930) was a ceramist and painter, a noted representative of the pointillist style. He was born in Belgium to English parents and lived his later life in Finland.
Alfred William Hunt, (November 15 1830 – May 3 1896), was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.
Alfred Wolmark (1877, Warsaw - 6 January 1961, London) was a painter and decorative artist. He was a pioneer of the New Movement in Art.
Alfred Zwiebel (November 6,1914 - February 25, 2005) was a landscape, floral, and still-life painter.
Alfredo Keil (Lisbon, 3 July 1850 – Hamburg, 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese classical composer and painter. He was of German origin on his father's side, and was the great Portuguese romantic composer. He was also considered the last important Portuguese painter in the romantic style. He studied in Munich and Nuremberg with the German romantic painters Kaulbach and von Kreling.
Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988), was a famous painter of the artistic and cultural Brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil, where he lived for most part of his life.
(Chagatai/; ) (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501) was a Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Uyghur origin who was born and lived in Herat. He is generally known by his pen name Navā'ī (, meaning "the weeper"). Because of his distinguished Chagatai (Middle Turkic) poetry, he is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature.
Ali Akbar Sadeghi (born 1937) a graduate of the College of Art, University of Tehran, is one of the most prolific and successful Iranian painters and artists.
I have represented their crimes on the weapon they used to commit them" -- Ali Sarmini Dr. Ali Sarmini ( '), is a world renowned Syrian painter, best known for his work Quneitra on Remains painted on parts of an Israeli Air Force [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-4_Phantom#Israel F-4 Phantom] shot down over Syrian territories, in about 1972.
Ali Zafar (Urdu: علی ظفر) is a Pakistani singer, actor, painter and model, known as the "Prince of Pop". He is very-well known all around South Asia for his looks and music, including hit songs like "Channo", "Rangeen", "Chal Dil Merey", "Dekha" . "Masty" and "Sajania". He started his singing career with his hit song "jugnuon se bhar le aanchal" in the film Shararat directed by Pakistani actress and director Samina Peerzada,
Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 - October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.
Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 - January 1 1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretation of cubism and her multimedia wool paintings.
Alice Elinor Lambert (January 8, 1886 - February 19, 1981) was a writer. In the 1930s, she self-published with Vanguard Press at least three romance novels, Hospital Nocture, Women Are Like That, and Lost Frangrance, all later re-published by Dell Romance. In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Tom Thomson, who would become known, following his mysterious drowning in 1917, as one of Canada's greatest landscape painters. Alice married Joseph Ransburg in 1912.
Alice Frey (25 June 1895–30 August 1981) was a Belgian painter.
Alice Maher born at Kilmoyler, a rural area between Bansha and Cahir, County Tipperary, 1956 is an Irish painter and sculptor.
Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American portrait painter. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity.
Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg. Painting a diverse cross-section of humanity, from Communist Party leaders to art world personalities to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, Neel created a body of work that serves as a social document of New York and America in the 20th Century.
Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike, January 14, 1857 – 1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts.
Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953), was a French artists' model, nightclub singer, actress, and painter. Her chosen name was simply Kiki, but she also was referred to as, Reine de la Montparnasse, the Queen of Montparnasse, and Kiki de Montparnasse. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s. In 1996, biographers, Billy Klüver and Julie Martin, called her "one of the century's first truly independent women."
Alice Schille (1869-1955) was an American painter.
Alicia DeBrincat is an American painter based in the San Francisco Bay area. Born in Stanford, California, DeBrincat holds a BA from the University of Oregon, and has studied at the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico as well as the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales in Seville, Spain. DeBrincat's work was awarded the first prize in 2006 annual juried show by the Art Museum of Los Gatos.
Spanish artist Alicia Grau Pérez-Agustín is an impressionist living painter who specializes in child and young women portraits. Born in Barcelona in 1955, she divides her working time between her hometown and Florence, Italy.
Alicia St. Rose (b. December 27, 1964) is an American pastel painter best known for utilizing photorealistic techniques to achieve heighened light, shadow and texture in a variety of subjects. She enhances photographic qualities in each of her paintings, achieving a hyperreal appearance.
Alida Withoos (Amersfoort, circa 1661/1662 - Westkerk, Amsterdam (buried) 5 December 1730) was a Dutch botanical artist and painter. She was the daughter of the painter Matthias Withoos.
Aligi Sassu (July 17, 1912 - July 17, 2000) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Alipy of the Caves (? - 1114)- Eastern Orthodox saint, monk and famous painter of cave monastery of Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Saint Alipy was a disciple of Greek icon painters from Constantinople and considered to be the first iconographer of the Kievan Rus.
Alison Jane Watt OBE is a Scottish painter, born in Greenock in 1965.
Alison Watt (born 1957) is a Canadian, writer, and painter.
Alkinoos Ioannides (Greek: Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης) is a Cypriot composer and singer born in Nicosia on 19 September 1969. His artistic family, with a painter father and poet brother was a source of inspiration for him.
All Mixed Up is a cover of The Cars' song from Red House Painters' fifth studio album Songs for a Blue Guitar (see: All Mixed Up). The song was never released as a full single, but only as a promotional single. The song featured in the Alicia Silverstone film Excess Baggage. Some versions of the promo single feature the album version of "Make Like Paper," another song from Songs for a Blue Guitar. A music video was produced for the song, directed by Phil Harder.
Alla Fino is a painter who won numerous awards for her paintings while living in Belarus and Russia. She now lives in the United States. She was married to Ronald Fino who is known for his work for the FBI and CIA on the subject of the Mafia.
Allan Gwynne-Jones CBE DSO RA (27 March 1892–5 August 1982) was an English painter.
Allan Houser ( June 29 1914 - August 221994) was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century. Born of the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache tribe of Oklahoma, U.S., Houser's work can be found at the United Nations building in New York City, at the US National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in other public buildings throughout our nation's capitol.
Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years.
Allan Linder (1966 - Present) is an American artist living in New York. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He uses a variety of media, but mostly acrylic paint on canvas.
Allart van Everdingen (bapt. Jun 18 1621 Alkmaar - buried Nov 8 1675, Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint.
Allegri is a surname, and may refer to: Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652), Italian composer Antonio da Correggio (1489–1534, full name Antonio Allegri da Correggio), Italian Renaissance painter
Allen Fisher (born 1944) is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Allen Sapp (born 2 January 1928) is a Canadian Cree painter, currently living in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. His art and his story have become well known throughout Canada and has become an inspiration to many. His paintings tell a personal story. Many of his paintings feature images of his grandmother, and reflect the love he has for her.
One of the first postage stamps to commemorate Salvador Allende, released after the 1973 coup in Chile, was the Soviet one. It was issued just two months after the event and had a circulation of 3.8 million. The issue was designed by a painter A. Kovrizhkin and bore the title expressing Soviet government's view on Allende: "Salvador Allende, an antiimperialist Latin America liberation movement activist, fighter for the cause of Chilean workers".
The Allentown Art Museum is an art museum located in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by noted Pennsylvania impressionist painter, Walter Emerson Baum. With its collection of over 13,000 works of art, the Allentown Art Museum is a major regional art institution. In addition, its library and archives of more than 16,000 titles and 40 current periodicals make it an important cultural resource in the Lehigh Valley region.
Allison Merriweather is an American painter living in Houston, Texas. Her style and subject matter has been influenced by a childhood spent in the rural Southwest and California as well as her journeys through North Africa, Spain and Greece. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States, Scotland, and in numerous publications, including Illuminations and Man In Nature.
* Alessandro Allori - (1535-1607) was an Italian portrait ainter * Angelo Allori - (1502-1572) better known as Il Bronzino—for his dark complexion— was a Florentine Mannerist painter * Cristofano Allori - (1577-1621) was an Italian portrait painter
Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (née Schindler) (August 31, 1879 – December 11, 1964) was noted in her native Vienna for her beauty and intelligence. She was the wife, successively, of the composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, and lover to the painter Oskar Kokoschka. She was also a composer.
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 - February 24, 1978) was an African American color field painter and art educator.
Fra Alof de Wignacourt was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John from 1601 to 1622. He was of the langue of France. His reign was notable for the construction of a number of coastal fortifications (the Wignacourt towers), and of the aqueduct that brought water from the plateau above Rabat to Valletta. His parade armour survives and is one of the treasures of the Palace Armoury in Valletta. He was a patron of the painter Caravaggio.
The first name Alois can refer to Alois I, Prince of Liechtenstein. Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein. Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist. Alois Arnegger, an Austrian painter. Brother Alois, the Prior of the Taizé Community. Alois Brunner, an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Alois Buttinger, an Austrian socialist. Alois Carigiet, a Swiss illustrator. Alois Dryák, a Czech architect.
Alois Arnegger (March 9, 1879 - August 11, 1963) was an Austrian painter.
Alois Lunzer (1840-?), was an Austrian-born watercolour painter, who emigrated to Philadelphia and specialised in doing botanical illustrations.
Alonso Miguel de Tobar (1678-1758) was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
Alonso Sánchez Coello, (1531/32, Benifairó de les Valls, near Valencia - August 8 1588, Madrid) was the best portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance and one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting.
Alonso Vázquez (1565 -c. 1608) was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the Renaissance period.
Alonso de Llera Zambrano was a Spanish painter, active during the Baroque period. He was born in Cadiz , flourished in that city as a painter of banners for the royal navy, and executed, in 1639, altarpieces for the oratories of four galleons dispatched in that year to New Spain.
Alonzo Cano or Alonso Cano (1601 - 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect and sculptor born in Granada. He learned architecture from his father, Miguel Cano, painting from Francisco Pacheco the master of Velazquez, and sculpture from Juan Martínez Montañés. As a sculptor, his most famous works are the Madonna and Child in the church of Lebrija (also called Nebrija, and the colossal figures of San Pedro and San Pablo.
Aloys Wach or Aloys Ludwig Wachelmayr (sometimes Wachelmeier) was an Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was born in Lambach, Upper Austria on April 30, 1892 and died in Braunau, Upper Austria on April 18, 1940.
Aloysius O'Kelly (July 3, 1853 in Dublin – c.1941) was an Irish painter.
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (May 31, 1835–May 18, 1885) was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War and portraits of soldiers. Some of his works have been collected by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and by the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Alphonse Osbert (March 23, 1857 - August 11, 1939) was a French Symbolist painter.
Alphonse de Cailleux, in full Alexandre-Alphonse-Achille, vicomte de Cailloux (Rouen, 31 December 1788 — 24 May 1876) was a painter, connoisseur and arts administrator who became director of the Musée du Louvre and all the royal museums of France. Under the Bourbon Restauration he was attached to the reconstituted royal household (the maison du roi).
Alson S. Clark (25 March, 1876 - 23 March, 1949) was an American painter best remembered for his impressionist landscapes. Born in Chicago, Illinois, his art education included training at the Art Institute of Chicago (where he enrolled at Saturday classes at the age of 11), the Art Students League of New York, and in the atelier of William Merritt Chase. He spent much of his early career working in Paris, France. He served in the US Army as an aerial photographer during World War I.
Altichiero da Zevio (also called Aldighieri da Zevio; c. 1330 – c. 1390) was an Italian painter of the Gothic style. A follower of Giotto, Altichiero is credited with founding the Veronese school. He worked in Verona and Padua — works by him survive in the church of Sant'Anastasia in Verona and in the basilica of Sant'Antonio and the Oratorio di San Giorgio in Padua (where the credit for the work has been generally shared with Jacopo d'Avanzi, about whom little is known).
Altobello Melone (c. 1508 – before 1547) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
Alton S. Tobey (5 November 1914 - 4 January 2005), the American artist, was a painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art.
Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts , the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver, but at the age of 40 become involved in telescope making.
Alvan Clark & Sons was an American maker of optics that became famous for crafting lenses for some of the largest refracting telescopes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded in 1846 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts by Alvan Clark (1804–1887, a descendant of Cape Cod whalers who started as a portrait painter, and his sons George Bassett Clark (1827–1891) and Alvan Graham Clark (1832–1897).
Alvin Eli Amason (b. 1948) is an Alaskan painter and sculptor. He was born in Kodiak and is of Alutiiq ancestry. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University and teaches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; he is the head of the Alaska Native Art studies program there. He is a member of the Alaska Native Arts Foundation Board of Directors.
Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, (c. 1446 – 1502), was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may have trained, was Bartolomeo Vivarini. Another uncle, on his mother's side, was the artist known as Giovanni d'Alemagna, who worked with his brother-in-law Antonio. Alvise may have trained Jacopo de' Barbari.
Alén Diviš (1900-1956) was a Czech painter known for his melancholic art. He died in 1956 rather unknown but has had a post-mortem revival in the art world.
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (Manhufe, Amarante, November 24, 1887 -Espinho, October 25, 1918) was a Portuguese painter of modern art, working in the style of the vanguard of his time. Although he lived a short life, his workmanship was legendary.
Amalia Lindegren, (22 May 1814 in Stockholm, dead 27 december 1891 in Stockholm, was a Swedish artist and painter, from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.
Amalia Pachelbel (29 October, 1688 – 6 December, 1723) was a German painter and engraver. She was born in Erfurt and was the oldest daughter of composer Johann Pachelbel. She was named after Amalia Oeheim, Johann's sister-in-law. According to Pachelbel's obituary retold in Mattheson's Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte of 1740, Amalia's interest in art pleased her father, and he was always supportive of her. Amalia became known for her floral watercolors, copper engravings and porcelain pieces.
Amanda Lear (born November 18,1946) is a model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. She first came to the public's attention as the fetishistically clad model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973.
Amar Amarni (b. June 12, 1973 in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) is an Algerian painter who lives and works in Marseille, France.
Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming (10 December 1925 – 27 July 1999) was a British cello performer and teacher. She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband.
Amasa Hewins (July 11 1795-August 18 1855) was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter.
The Amasis Painter (active around 550 - 510 in Athens) was a Greek Vase painter of the black figure style. He owes his name to the fact that eight of the potter Amasis's manufactured marked work (“Amasis made me”) are painted by the same painter, who we therefore called the Amasis painter. Today approximately 90 works are attributed to him.
Ambrogio Borgognone (also known as Ambrogio da Fossano or Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano or as il Bergognone, c. 1470s – 1523/1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school.
Ambrogio Besozzi (1648-1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Ambrogio Casati (december 27 1897 – july 19 1977) was an Italian painter.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 – June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately from 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.
Ambrose McCarthy Patterson was a painter and printmaker born in Daylesford, Australia on June 29, 1877. He studied at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne and continued his studies in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian under Lucien Simon, André Lhote and Maxime Maufra. In Paris he became a friend of compatriot, Nellie Melba, the famous soprano. Through her influence, he was able to continue his studies with John Singer Sargent.
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He started his career in Antwerp, but spend most of it in Middelburg (1593–1613), where he became dean of the painters' guild. He later worked in Amsterdam (1614), Bergen op Zoom (1615–1616), Utrecht (1616–1619), and Breda (1619). He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers.
Ambrosius Brueghel (Antwerp, 1617—9 February 1675) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes and flower paintings. His work is similar to that of his half-brother, Jan Brueghel the Younger, and his nephew, Abraham Brueghel. He was primarily active Antwerp, probably travelled to Italy around 1639, and was dean of Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke from 1653 to 1671.
Ambrosius Holbein (1494 - 1519) was a German painter. He is best known as the son of Hans Holbein the Elder and brother of Hans Holbein the Younger.
Amelia Alcock-White is a Canadian magic realist painter. Born on Vancouver Island, Canada, her unique surrealist style evolved in isolation.
Amelia Curran (1775 – 1847) was an Irish painter.
Amelia Peláez del Casal (1896-April 8, 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation.
The American Barbizon school was a group of painters and style partly influenced by the French Barbizon school. American Barbizon painters concentrated on impressionist landscapes.
Tribal Style Belly Dance or American Tribal Style Belly Dance (commonly known as ATS) is a modern style of dance created by FatChanceBellyDance director, Carolena Nericcio. In 1974 Carolena began belly dancing with Masha Archer and the San Francisco Dance Troupe. Masha’s style was an eclectic blend of classic Egyptian Cabaret, Folkloric and any other influence that she found enticing. Being a trained painter and sculptor, Masha taught her dancers to create art through dance.
Amico Aspertini (c. 1474 – 1552) is an Italian Renaissance painter whose complex, eccentric, and eclectic style anticipates Mannerism. He is considered among the first of the Bolognese School of painting.
Amilkar Ariza (Born 1943 in Riohacha, Guajira, Colombia) is a painter and professional Dentist specialized in Implantology. In 1984, The International Congress of Oral Implantology in Munich, Germany, recognized Dr. Amilkar Ariza as a renowned leader in this field. He was later honored by receiving a letter of appreciation for his global contribution to the science of Implantology by the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush.
Amos Cassioli (1832–1891) was a nineteenth-century Italian painter.
Amrita Sher-Gil (January 30, 1913, Budapest, Hungary – December 5, 1941, Lahore), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo. She was daughter of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and also a scholar in Sanskrit, and Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, a Hungarian, who was a singer. Sher-Gil was the elder of two daughters born to Umrao Singh and Marie Antoinette.
Amy Sillman (born 1966 in Detroit) is an American painter living and working in New York.
Amédée Ozenfant (15 April, 1886 - 4 May, 1966) was a French cubist painter.
Amélie Beaury-Saurel (Barcelona, 1849-Paris, May 301924) was a French painter.
Amélie Helga Lundahl (Oulu, May 26 1850 - Helsinki, August 20 1914) was a Finnish painter.