
Ignaz Stern (1679—1748) was an Austrian Baroque painter who specialised in religious paintings and frescoes. Stern's style is characterised by a dramatic use of light...

Ignaz Stern (1679—1748) was an Austrian Baroque painter who specialised in religious paintings and frescoes. Stern's style is characterised by a dramatic use of light...
Attr. to Ignaz Stern, Angel Playing the Harp, 18th century 🎼 @lukesilvamusic Source: wannenesgroup.com

This oil sketch was made for a lost canvas ceiling painting that Dutch artist Jacob de Wit (1695—1754) executed in 1738 for the Aldermen's or Sheriffs' Hall...

This painting is available for purchase at Christie’s British & European Art online auction on 15th of July, London @christiesinc Current bid: £2,200. Émile...

Hans Zatzka (1859—1945) was an Austrian painter known for his paintings of religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects. Trained at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts,...

Born in 1843 in Rome to Austrian parents, Eugene de Blaas (1843—1932) was the son and student of the painter Karl von Blaas (1815—1894), who was a teacher at the Academy...

Aloïs Hans Schram (1864—1919) was a prolific Austrian painter and sculptor of historical subjects, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes and seascapes. Schram...

It was in Venice that Eugene de Blaas (1843—1932) established himself as the leading painter of Venetian genre. The golden Italian climate and the magnificent old stone...

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” — George Bernard Shaw. Hans Zatzka, Allegorical Painting of Two Cherubs...

Hans Zatzka (1859—1945) was an Austrian Academic and fantasy painter. He has sometimes been known as P. Ronsard, Pierre de Ronsard, or H. Zabateri, and signed many of...

Hans Zatzka (1859—1945) was born in Vienna and, at the young age of eighteen, enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts. He painted under several pseudonyms: H. Zabateri, P....

Lady Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1866—1954) was a British noblewoman, socialite and diarist. She and her sister, Hermione, Duchess of Leinster, were...

Émile Eisman-Semenowsky (1857—1911) was most likely born in Poland, but worked in France. He was influenced by oriental subjects, a widespread phenomenon in French 19th...
Botticelli: Virtual Exhibition Tour with @arthistorydiary Discover creative genius of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and his workshop at the beautiful Musée...

Queen of Spain, Isabella II was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1830, the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and of his fourth wife and niece, Maria...

Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period Giuseppe Bonito (1707—1789), a favourite at the court of King Carlos and who, in 1748, had executed a series of nine paintings of...

Conrad Kiesel's (1846—1921) rendering of his sitters' delicate complexions and the soft, silky fabric of their gowns creates an enchanting impression of the scene. The...

Emily Treslove was John Constable’s (1776—1837) neighbour in Charlotte Street, the central London address of his spacious studio. In various diary entries, Emily...

Paul de la Boulaye (1849—1926) was a 19th century French painter who painted genre scenes of peasants, religiously inspired works, still-lifes, portraits and sumptuous...

Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Helene Luise Elisabeth; 1814—1858) was a French Crown Princess after her marriage in 1837 to the eldest son of Louis Philippe I,...

Ceiling mural done by John Elliott (1858—1925), son of Julia Ward Howe, depicts "a female figure guiding twenty horses representing the last twenty centuries and the...

The myth of Eros and Psyche is probably one of the best love stories in classical mythology. Eros, son of Aphrodite, was the personification of intense love desire and...

The greatest decorative painter of his century, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696—1770) has been called the last Renaissance painter. He was often working in fresco where...

In 1636 Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613—1670) was living in Amsterdam, where he became the city’s most successful portraitist from the 1640s due to the patronage of...
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Charles Jervas (c. 1675—1739) was an Irish portrait painter and translator of Don Quixote. Following a visit to Rome to learn drawing by copying antiques, he established...

Holding an orange in her hand as a reference to the House of Orange, Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange was an English princess. The portrait was painted by the Dutch...

Three figures with a red drape in the background: just a few elements, yet capable of orchestrating an utterly realistic theater of contrasts: darkness and light, age...

Few artists inspire the same awe or have so dramatically altered the course of Western painting as Michelangelo Merisi, better known by the name of his home town,...

With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, the pure geometry of its forms, and meditative mood, this painting exemplifies Georges de La Tour’s 1(593—1652)...
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