Spanish painter, Madrid school (b. 1633, Cordoba, d. 1670, Madrid) Related Paintings of ESCALANTE, Juan Antonio Frias y :. | The Angel stopping Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to God | The mystic marriage of St Catherine with SS Leopold and William | Schlacht zwischen der | The Cafe Royal (mk06) | Self-Portrait as Ravenswood | Related Artists:
Charles LebrunFrench Pand art Theorist ,
Paris1619-190
Virtual dictator of the arts in France until the death of Colbert in 1683. He established his reputation by a series of decorative schemes, and his own greatest compositions, which immortalize the achievements of the crown, are at Versailles. He became a founder, rector, chancellor, and finally director of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was also director of the Gobelins factory and Premier Peintre (1664). His Tent of Darius (1661), for Louis XIV, is a model of legibility, with the explicit and varied gesture and expression of the figures deriving from ideas expressed by Poussin. Lebrun's influential treatise,
GIOVANNI DA RIMINIItalian painter, Riminese school (active 1292-1309)
Frank Blackwell MayerAmerican Painter, 1827-1899