Genoa 1639-Rome 1709  Related Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli Called Baccicio :. | Painting depicting historical episode between Scipio Africanus and Allucius | The Worship of the Holy Name of Jesus, with Gianlorenzo Bernini, on the ceiling of the nave of the Church of the Jesus in Rome. | St John the Baptist | Portrait of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici | bacoeariadne fcegk |
Related Artists:
ekens, Joseph Francis
English, 1702-1748
Mariia Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva
impression artist F: J 1858 Nov 12 (wrongly 1860 Nov 23) - 1884 Oct 31
Vassily Kandinsky
Russian-born French Expressionist Painter , 1866-1944 was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession??he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat??he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.