Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1578-1649  Related Paintings of Maino, Juan Bautista del :. | The Virgin Appears to a Dominican Monk in Seriano | Adoration of the Shepherds | Adoration of the Shepherds | The Recovery of Bahia in Brazil | View of the City of Zaragoza |
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puccini
Period: Post-Romantic (1870-1909) Country: Italy Born: December 22, 1858 in Lucca, Italy Died: November 29, 1924 in Brussels, Belgium Genres: Chamber Music, Miscellaneous Music, Opera, Vocal Music
Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675 was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
Emile Levy
Paris 1826 - Paris 1890. French Academic Painter, 1826-1890. Studied under François-Edward Picot and Abel de Pujol.