In her youth, Georgia O’Keeffe had been particularly fascinated by the jack-in-the-pulpit. In 1930, she executed a series of six paintings of the common North American herbaceous flowering plant at Lake George in New York.
The green foliage is arranged in a less symmetrical manner, and the mauve background
Michelangelo Muraro first coined the conventional name for this artist in 1969 and gathered under it a group of paintings previously attributed in the main to Paolo Veneziano .[1] Muraro also conjectured that the anonymous master might be identifiable with Marco, brother of Paolo, who, according to a document of 1335, must have been a highly esteemed painter at this time, though none of his works have come down to us under his name. However, judging from his stylistic characteristics, the anonymous Master of the Washington Coronation must have belonged to a generation preceding that of Paolo and his brother.
The period of his activity, during which he accepted in an ever more pronounced manner
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
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
Gerrit van Honthorst was born in Utrecht in 1592 to a large Catholic family. His father, Herman van Honthorst, was a tapestry designer and a founding member of the Utrecht Guild of St.
Ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595–1624) in applying the Caravaggesque manner
overflowing wicker basket with still-life elements grouped around it in a semicircular manner
nurtured me from a boy up to a virile age, and taught me to cast aside uncivilized manners
