Biography Category
(yô´z f mä´n s) (KEY) , 1820–71, Czech painter and illustrator, who worked chiefly in Prague. He painted portraits and genre scenes with detaile...
(gûr´t n) (KEY) , 1775–1802, English draftsman and watercolorist. He was apprenticed to an engraver but was employed, together with J. M. W. Turne...
(Giotto di Bondone) (jôt´t d b ndô´n ) (KEY) , c.1266–c.1337, Florentine painter and architect. He is noted not only for his own work, but for...
(n kôlä´ frômäN´) (KEY) , fl. 2d half of 15th cent., French painter of the Provençal school. While in the service of René of Anjou at Avignon,...
(py ´tr lông´g ) (KEY) , 1702–85, Venetian genre painter. Longhi studied with Crespi in Bologna. He is best known for his small pictures depicti...
(r n ´ mägr t´) (KEY) , 1898–1967, Belgian surrealist painter. Strongly influenced by Chirico, Magritte developed a style in which a misleading s...