Paintings and painting

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art.

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art.

According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model.

Desde el Renacimiento temprano, pasando por el Barroco y el Romanticismo hasta el Cubismo, Surrealismo y Pop Art, estas pinturas canónicas del arte occidental abarcan ocho siglos y una multitud de temas.

Gemäß den etablierten kunsttechnischen Grundsätzen sollte ein Porträt vor allem ein naturgetreues Abbild der porträtierten Person darstellen.

1000 Chefs-d’oeuvre de la peinture réunit les oeuvres incontournables de l’art occidental à voir au moins une fois dans sa vie.

From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects.

Maler, Designer, Hersteller von seltsamen Gegenständen, Autor und Filmemacher: Dali wurde der Berühmteste der Surrealisten.

À l’époque victorienne, l’angleterre, balayée par la révolution industrielle, la confrérie préraphaélite, William morris et le mouvement Arts and Crafts, aspirait à un retour aux valeurs passées.

In a country only unified since 1871, German culture and art is derived from ancient tradition.

The English school of painting was officially recognised at the beginning of the 18th century through the work of William Hogarth.

Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own.

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dali became the most famous of the Surrealists.

Over the course of history, many wars have changed the political and cultural landscape of our world.

Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake's work is made up of several elements - Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare - to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David.

They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age.

It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remington's art without thinking of the merely human elements.

He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari's words, "e;instructed in all such things as children are usually taught before they choose a calling.

Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images.

Little is known of Memling's life.

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s.

After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592.

Ornans, Courbet's birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.

Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings.

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6 1660), known as Diego Velasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV.

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland.

From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else.

John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch.

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth.

Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour.

Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms.

Canaletto began his career as a theatrical scene painter, like his father, in the Baroque tradition.

Die Kunst und Kultur Deutschlands, einem Land, das sich erstmals 1871 zu einer Nation vereinte,bauen auf uralten und facettenreichen Traditionen auf.

Die englische Schule wurde erst am Anfang des 18.

Der Amerikanische Realismus ist weder eine Kunstbewegung noch eine Schule, vielmehr ist er ein durch eine außergewöhnliche Vielfalt gekennzeichnetes Phänomen, das nur schwer zu definieren ist.

The incarnation of the myth of a cursed artist, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend who became a reference for modern art.

Not only was Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) an astonishing painter, but also a scientist, anatomist, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, and more.

With Impression, Soleil Levant, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (1840-1926) took part in the creation of the Impressionism movement that introduced the 19th century to modern art.

Few people discuss the fact that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most important artist of the 20th century.

The incarnation of the myth of a cursed artist, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend who became a reference for modern art.

Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) was active at the turn of the century.

La culture et l’art allemand sont issus d’une tradition ancienne, bien que le pays ne se soit unifié qu’en 1871.

L'école de peinture britannique a été officiellement reconnue au début du XVIIIe siècle grâce au travail du peintre William Hogarth.

La richesse du réalisme américain est de n’être ni un mouvement, ni une école, mais plutôt de répondre à toute une nuance d’interprétations, sans règle ni loi préétablies.

In the Victorian era, England - swept along by the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite fold, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts movement - aspired to return to traditional values.

17th-century Flemish painter Van Dyck's career was as short as it was dazzling.

From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects.

According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model.

Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons.

"e;I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.