Biography Category
(py r g ty r´) (KEY) , 1732?–c.1813, French metalworker. The greatest artist of ornamental bronzes of the period of Louis XVI, he produced a vast n...
1878–1955, German painter. After a stay in Paris, where he was influenced by Cézanne’s works, Hofer settled in Berlin (1913). He developed a rest...
1537–1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first tr...
(ônôr ´ d my ´) (KEY) , 1808–79, French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor. Daumier was the greatest social satirist of his day. Son of a Marse...
(ämbr ´j d pr ´d s) (KEY) c.1455–c.1506, Milanese painter. He worked under Leonardo da Vinci and copied many of his paintings. He also execute...
( m l´ mäl) (KEY) , 1862–1954, French art historian. Mâle pioneered the study of French art of the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eas...