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  • Arcimboldo

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Guiseppe Arcimboldo Renaissance Art Milan Holy Roman Empire ... Read more

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  • Seurat

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Georges Seurat was one of the most important Post-Impressionist painters to lead the way toward the modern era in art. He is best known for developing pointillism, an exacting and time-consuming technique whereby tiny dots of paint are combined to create a composition. His work is stylized and considered, in complete contrast to the impetuous spontaneity of his precursors and contemporaries, the ... Read more

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  • John Singer Sargent

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Painter of languid, elegant, Edwardian beauties and sharply dressed gentlemen, John Singer Sargent was the ultimate society painter. He knew everyone who was anyone and was on personal terms with many of them, including Edward VII and the U.S. presidents Roosevelt and Wilson. This social standing was justified. Sargent was one of the greatest portrait painters ever, able to convey the personality ... Read more

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  • Egon Schiele

    by Forty, Sandra ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Egon Schiele is considered by many to be the greatest draftsman of the 20th century. The undeniable fact, however. that a considerable share of his work is of an explicitly erotic nature has blinded many people to his remarkable ability, so much so that he is primarily known as an Austrian Expressionist artist of the erotic. Schieles full artistic flowering lasted only a little over 10 years. He ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Michelangelo is considered by many art experts to be the greatest Renaissance artist, surpassing even Leonardo da Vinci. Not only was he an exceptional sculptor but also a formidable painter, architect, and poet. Michelangelo’s primary material was marble and the results of his talent and work speak for themselves: Can anything compare to his statue of David or the Pietà he carved at the age of 24 ... Read more

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  • Renoir

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir was, above all, a painter of people, especially young women and rosy-cheeked children. In many ways, he is the most approachable Impressionist. Not for him were the grim realities of a hard life. Renoir painted people enjoying themselves: talking, flirting, laughing, often dancing, eating, drinking, and simply passing joyful times together. A constant theme throughout his ... Read more

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  • Bruegel

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    The Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel—sometimes called Peasant Bruegel—was the first great artist to paint scenes of ordinary peasant life and show the common man and woman as they went about their daily tasks and amusements. He is credited with bringing a humanizing spirit to painting— something that was lacking in medieval works and entirely absent from contemporary Renaissance paintings. His ... Read more

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  • Paul Gaugin

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Gauguin’s paintings are redolent of the South Sea islands, full of exotic women, vibrant flora, and brilliant color. In addition, his scenes range from normal life in France’s Brittany, to Provence where he painted and lived briefly with Vincent van Gogh, to French Polynesia. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848. After Napoléon III became the president of France, Gauguin’s ... Read more

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  • Francisco De Goya

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series TAJ Mini Books
    The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled “Reviser of Indecent Paintings.” But by the age of 40, Goya had established himself as a leading Spanish artist. Goya simultaneously pursued a number of disparate ... Read more

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  • Hiroshige

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Ando Hiroshige is considered by many as the last of the great creative masters of the traditional Japanese woodblock print. His skill has won him worldwide fame and artistic influence, along with his contemporary, Katsushika Hokusai. Both artists widened the range of subjects they covered to encompass every aspect of life in Japan’s Edo period. Although famous primarily for his landscapes and the ... Read more

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  • Coins of the World

    by Forty, Sandra ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Coins allow us a glimpse into times that have left few other artifacts and serve as a record of important historical events. They tell the story of the worlds cultures in religious, social, and economic evolution over many thousands of years and in many parts of the world.China is thought to be the first country to mint and use copper coins, as early as the eleventh century BC. These coins, ... Read more

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  • Hieronymus Bosch

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Hieronymus Bosch is a Dutch painter of the late Middle Ages. He died in 1516. His work is known for its use of fantastic, now-viewed as horrific, imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives of the Roman Catholic church during that time. Balancing the images of hell and tormented sinners are the bucolic, delicate, and detailed landscapes he painted on the back of his triptychs ... Read more

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