Caspar David Friedrich, like other Romantic painters, established landscape paintings as a dominant genre in Western art. Friedrich’s coming of age was during a…
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J.M.W Turner is known for his unique form and prodigious talent; he is known as one of the greatest British painters of all time. …
Ivan Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered to be one of the greatest masters of marine art. Aivazovsky, born in 1817 in Feodosia, Crimea…
Thomas Cole is remembered as one of America's earliest and most significant landscape painters.
Known as the Renaissance's greatest sculptor, Michelangelo was often commissioned to apply his talents to other mediums such as painting and architecture.
At the root of all Gothic art and architecture was the desire to construct something close to heaven on Earth, a place where congregations could feel the presence of the divine.
Considered one of the first major art movements of the modern era, Impressionism was a radical revolt against the contemporary standards of academic painting.
