Autore: Josh Parker

The majority of Rubens’s drawings served as a step toward a final work of art in another medium. Rubens kept his drawings close by as studio material to be used by his assistants and collaborators. I …

Tiziano Vecellio (known as Titian) was the greatest representative of the Venetian School and he was recognized as a genius in his own time. He has been an inspiration to artists like Rubens, Velazqu …

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was French painter, printmaker, draftsman and illustrator with enormous productivity – more than 1000 paintings, 5000 drawings, and 350 prints and posters. He suffered a deb …

Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draftsman and master of the pastels. He describes his own work as ‘ambiguous and indefinable’: ‘My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined …

Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist painter who depicted the lives of women, chiefly the intimate bond between mother and child. At the beginning of the 20th century, she had achieved widespre …

Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist who depicted the life of women, essentially the intimate bond between mother and child. In Europe, Cassatt’s paintings were better received that in United S …

Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist artist whose most important accent was the depiction of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist wr …

Alexandre Cabanel is the best representative of the L’art pompier and Napoleon III’s preferred painter. His work displays originality and sincerity fixed with a deep sense of respect for the great ar …