French 1758-1823 Pierre Paul Prud'hon Gallery Related Paintings of Pierre-Paul Prud hon :. | Innocence Preferring Love to Wealth | Portrat der Kaiserin Josephine | Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime (mk05) | The Abduction of Psyche (mk05) | Portrat der Kaiserin Josephine | Related Artists:
Mura, Francesco deItalian, 1696-1782
Italian painter. He was educated initially in the workshop of Domenico Viola at Naples, but in 1708 he entered the school of Francesco Solimena, whose favourite pupil and most trusted collaborator he became. At first he followed closely Solimena's monumental Baroque manner, as in the frescoes (1715) in S Nicola alla Carit? in Naples, but later developed a more controlled and refined style of rhythmical lines, light and airy colours and delicate psychological overtones. He employed this new style in his ten canvases of the Virtues and his vast Adoration of the Magi (all 1728; Naples, S Maria Donnaromita) and, above all, in his frescoes of the Adoration of the Magi in the apsidal dome of the church of the Nunziatella, Naples (1732; in situ). De Mura was also active as a portrait painter; his Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Michelino da BesozzoItalian Early Renaissance Painter, active 1388-1450
Jacob Smits1856-1928
German Jacob Smits Gallery