After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Washington, 1975: 292, repro., as Manner of Rembrandt. 1985 National Gallery of
mother of four than to Anna Amalie the abbess, albeit one who lived in a secular manner
The elegant manner in which Hanneman portrayed Henry, Duke of Gloucester, is more
Dorinda, dressed in a classicizing manner with a red satin skirt, white blouse, and
be found on a festive occasion and present them in a harmonious and convincing manner
One of the towering figures of Italian Renaissance art, Titian dominated painting in Venice from the death in 1516 of his probable master, Giovanni Bellini , until his own death 60 years later. His long career is exceptionally well documented in his middle and later years, but contemporary evidence regarding his birthdate is contradictory, and major problems of dating and attribution still surround his earliest works.
unclear, and it is sometimes supposed that he made small-scale oil sketches, in the manner
woman in the Washington painting is projected in a remarkably forceful and direct manner
This is no “family� in the usual sense. A harlequin, a jester, a young man in a leotard, a boy in a blue costume, a girl in a tutu with a basket, and a woman in a flowered hat are arranged in this rose-hued landscape.
There’s no coherent, unified manner in the painting, which is one of the things
Giovanni della Casa, who is in all likelihood the subject of this portrait, belonged to a wealthy Tuscan family and rose to prominence in the service of the church. As poet, humanist, and political theorist, he circulated at the highest levels of Italian intellectual life.
Della Casa also wrote a book on manners, and in this portrait of the early 1540s
Probably born in Siena, perhaps in 1284 according to uncertain information transmitted by Giorgio Vasari ,[1] Simone must already have been a famous artist when he was commissioned to paint the Maestà fresco in the Sienese seat of government, the Palazzo Pubblico. Signed and dated 1315, it is the earliest surviving of his ascertained works.
and highly innovative artist who had broken away from the prevailing Duccesque manner
