Rijn van Rembrandt

Rambrandt Van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Rambrandt was one of the greatest painters in European art history. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden, the Netherlands. He was the ninth child born [...]

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. He was the illegitimate son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina, a peasant. In 1466. At the age [...]

Claude Monet

Oscar Claude Monet was the founder of “French Impressionist Painting”. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) by the famous art critic Louis Leroy.

Francisco de Goya

Francisco Goya, considered to be “the Father of Modern Art,” began his painting career just after the late Baroque period. In expressing his thoughts and feelings frankly, as he did, he became the pioneer of new artistic tendencies which were to come to fruition in the 19th century. As an artist, Goya was by temperament [...]

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