1866-1932,was a Catalan artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets.   Related Paintings of Ramon Casas i Carbo :. | Portrait of a Lady | Pygmalion | Bather with Long Blonde Hair (mk09) | Rest by a Cottage | Portrait of nadezhda zabela-vrubel |
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John Skinner Prout
(1805-76), nephew of the famous English watercolourist Samuel Prout (1783-1852)
Gerrit Bakhuizen
c.1700-60
Christine de Pisan
French poet and arguably the first female author. 1364-1430 French writer. She was the daughter of an astrologer to Charles V and the wife of a court secretary and took up writing to support her children when she was widowed, producing 10 volumes of graceful verse, including ballads, rondeaux, lays, and complaints, many in the courtly-love tradition. Some works, both poetry and prose, champion women, notably The Book of the City of Ladies (1405).