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The array and diversity of Durer’s artworks is simply astonishing and it is not possible nowadays to identify how many of his paintings and prints are missing, but those that have continue to existed …

Arnold Bocklin (1827 – 1901) was a symbolist artist influenced by Romanticism movement. Bocklin’s works are Symbolist by style with mythological themes frequently relating with the painters Pre-Rapha …

Rembrandt produced etchings for most of his career, from 1626 to 1660, when he was forced to sell his printing-press and virtually abandoned etching.. He took easily to etching and, though he also le …

Pieter Coecke van Aelst was a Flemish artist who worked in the first half of the 16th century in Brussels and Antwerp in a very wide range of visual arts, ranging from church decoration to jewelry, s …

Clara Peeters was untypical for her epoch in being a female artist and is the first important woman visual artist of the Dutch Golden Age. The majority feminine Dutch artists as well concentrated in …

In this complete chapter of my book ‘Drawing By Observation”, the Basic and Complete Course, we observe … Why in the Academies  we have to balls and plaster statues… and we learn how to draw …

Etty was prolific and commercially successful throughout the 1840s, but the quality of his work deteriorated throughout this period. As his health progressively worsened he retired to York in 1848. H …

22 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 6 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: ‘Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was …

Holbein the Younger was one of the greatest portrait masters and the most sophisticated stylists in the art of painting all the time in German art. The artist’s work survived for us while working in …

Juan de Flandes was a Flemish artist, and the scientists suggested that he had received his premature artist’s education in Ghent. There are several of his works from the end of the 15th century sign …