Godefridus Schalcken was born in Made, a town south of Dordrecht, where his father, Cornelis Schalcken, was a minister. Schalcken’s father and his mother, Aletta Lydius, moved their family to Dordrecht in 1654 when Cornelis was appointed principal of the Latin school.
Self-Portrait Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Christian Josi · published 1821 · chalk manner
Nieuwenhuys in the following manner: “It is toward the approach of evening, when
Philips Wouwerman, a prolific painter of equestrian scenes, hailed from Haarlem, where he was baptized on May 24, 1619. The eldest of three sons born to the painter Pouwels Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert, Pouwels’ fourth wife, Wouwerman probably first learned to paint from his father.
Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Christian Josi · 1772, published 1821 · chalk manner
Aelbert Cuyp, one of the foremost Dutch landÂscape painters of the seventeenth century, was born in Dordrecht in October of 1620. His father, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1652), was a successful porÂtrait painter in the city, and from him Aelbert received his earliest training, assisting his father by painting landscape backgrounds for porÂtrait commissions.
van Amstel, Friedrich Christoph Dietrich, Christian Josi · published 1821 · chalk manner
overflowing wicker basket with still-life elements grouped around it in a semicircular manner
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Return , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset. Cole drew on several sources, including Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott’s popular verses about warfare between the English and the Scots.
of Design, New York, 1838, no. 65, as The Return, Scenes Illustrative of Feudal Manners
nurtured me from a boy up to a virile age, and taught me to cast aside uncivilized manners
Working diligently to find his artistic voice in the first decade of his career, Cézanne often prevailed upon friends and relatives to act as models in his studio on the family estate in Aix-en-Provence. The poet and art historian Antony Valabrègue, who grew up with Cézanne in Aix, sat for the young artist several times in the 1860s.
slightly to the side, and plain backdrop—but he executed it in a wholly radical manner
overflowing wicker basket with still-life elements grouped around it in a semicircular manner
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art—form—by analyzing the types of forms and materials used in various sculptures. Students will then experiment with line in both two and three dimensions to see how shapes become forms.
making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner
