Letter, Diaries

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the …

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a follower of classical art and had no wish for everything like novelty or the avant-garde. William-Adolphe Bouguereau used ancient themes, making new readings of class …

Vincent van Gogh drew thousands of images to better his style. He believed that drawing was “the root of everything”. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil …

Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpi …

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to …

This study Art Book contains selected and annotated color plates of paintings from James Whistler.James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler was The American painter, etcher, and lithographer who created a new s …

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Parmigianino (‘the little one from Parma’) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Pa …

Berthe Morisot was French artist, member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of ‘les trois grandes dames’ of Impress …

Amedeo Modigliani was the essence of a tragic artist. He sketched furiously, sometimes drawing over 100 sketches in a day, but many of his works were lost, given away, or in some cases, destroyed by …

Ingres’s style was formed early in life and changed comparatively little. His earliest drawings, such as the Portrait of a Man (1797) already show a suavity of outline and an extraordinary control of …