Biography Category
(môr s´ d n ´) (KEY) , 1870–1943, French painter and writer on art. His paintings, usually on religious themes, have not proved so influential as...
(d m´ f n) (KEY) , fl. 2d cent. B.C., Greek sculptor of Messene. He is remembered for colossal heads of Demeter and Artemis, found in Arcadia. He was...
(g ´ôrkh kôl´b ) (KEY) , 1877–1947, German sculptor. Kolbe studied painting and after meeting Rodin turned to sculpture, working in Berlin from ...
1897–1994, Belgian painter. Delvaux, influenced by Magritte and Chirico, created meticulous surreal compositions based on Renaissance ideas of persp...
(lw zhäk mäNd ´ dägâr´) (KEY) , 1789–1851, French scene painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype, a photograph produced on a silv...
(l ´t n) (KEY) , 1830–96, English painter and sculptor. He studied in Florence. His first exhibited picture, which showed Cimabue’s Madonna being...