http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/-t1.htm Related to Arts and Letters Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:56:24 GMT 10 http://i43.servimg.com/u/f43/11/13/93/07/spellb11.jpg http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/-t1.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/franz-xaver-winterhalter-t428.htm Joffre Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) Franz Xavier Winterhalter was born in the small village of Mensenschwad in Germany. He studied painting at the academy of Monaco. In 1835, after he painted portrait of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, Winterhalter was appointed his court painter. With that portrait his international career was launched. The royal families of England, France, and Belgium all commissioned their portraits from him. Under Napoleon III, Winterhalter became the chief portrait-painter ... Famous Painters Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:56:24 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/franz-xaver-winterhalter-t428.htm#2324 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/franz-xaver-winterhalter-t428.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/raphael-t20.htm Joffre Raphael Raphael, Self Portrait Raphael or Raffaello (April 6 1483 – April 6, 1520) was a master painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and softness of his paintings. He was also called Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello da Urbino or Rafael Sanzio da Urbino. Raphael was highly admired by his contemporaries. When compared to Michelangelo and Titian, he was sometimes considered inferior to those masters. ... Famous Painters Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:02:52 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/raphael-t20.htm#153 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/raphael-t20.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/rubens-t27.htm Joffre Rubens Self Portrait Peter Paul Rubens b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640 Peter Paul Rubens was in fact a Roman Catholic, but his name showed up on a list of Calvinists. This led to the Rubens family being exiled to Germany. Ruben's upbringing as a child reflected the stressed religious conflict of his age. As a child his parents cut off his education so he could focus on his artistic talents. After his father's death, in 1587, his family moved back to Antwerp, where his family ... Famous Painters Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:35:33 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/rubens-t27.htm#330 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/rubens-t27.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/goya-t26.htm Joffre Goya Goya, Self Portrait Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Goya was born in a very poor village called Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, in Aragon, on 30 March 1746. Goya’s father was a gilder in Saragossa and it was there that Goya spent his childhood and adolescence. He began his artistic studies at the age of 13 with a local artist, José Lusán, who had trained in Naples and who taught Goya to draw, to copy engravings and to paint in oils. In 1763 and 1766, he competed unsuccessfully ... Famous Painters Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:20:43 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/goya-t26.htm#184 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/goya-t26.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/el-greco-t25.htm Joffre El Greco El Greco: Self portrait (1604) El Greco (medieval Castilian for "the Greek") is the popular name for Dominikos Theotokópoulos (1541, Fodele or Candia (now Heraklion), Crete – April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain), a Cretan Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation. El Greco referred to himself not as a craftsman or painter, but rather ... Famous Painters Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:11:47 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/el-greco-t25.htm#183 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/el-greco-t25.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/botticelli-t21.htm Joffre Botticelli Sandro Botticelli, Self Portrait Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ("little barrel") (March 1, 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita ... Famous Painters Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:59:48 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/botticelli-t21.htm#179 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/botticelli-t21.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/caravaggio-t24.htm Joffre Caravaggio Caravaggio, Self Portrait Michelangelo Merisi, called later Caravaggio, was born in either Milan, or a town of Caravaggio near Milan, as the son of a ducal architect. His early training started in 1584 under Simone Peterzano, a little known pupil of Titian, and continued till 1588. In 1592, Caravaggio went to Rome. His contact with Giuseppe Cesare d’Arpino (1568-1640), the most popular painter and art dealer in Rome at the turn of the century, brought him recognition. ... Famous Painters Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:01:49 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/caravaggio-t24.htm#182 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/caravaggio-t24.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/velasquez-t22.htm Joffre Velasquez Diego Velázquez. Self-Portrait. 1643. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in 1599 in Seville, the first child of Juan Rodriguez de Silva and Jeronima Velázquez, members of the lesser nobility. Almost nothing is known about Diego’s siblings – five brothers and a sister. Velázquez seems to have started his apprenticeship with Francisco de Herrera the Elder (c.1590-1654), but a short while later (in 1611) his father ... Famous Painters Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:07:32 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/velasquez-t22.htm#180 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/velasquez-t22.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/titian-t23.htm Joffre Titian Titian, Self Portrait Titian or Tiziano Vecellio was born in a small alpine village of Pieve di Cadore, now not far from the Austrian border, where his family lived for many years. His parents, Lucia and Gregorio di Conte dei Vecelli, were respectable people of modest means. In about 1498, at the age of nine or ten, Titian and his elder brother Francesco were sent to Venice to start their training as painters in the workshop of the mosaicist Sebastiano Zuccato. ... Famous Painters Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:38:35 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/titian-t23.htm#181 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/titian-t23.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/michelangelo-t19.htm Joffre Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. While he made few forays beyond the arts, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo's output in every field during his ... Famous Painters Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:50:45 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/michelangelo-t19.htm#138 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/michelangelo-t19.htm http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/leonardo-da-vinci-t10.htm Joffre Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) Da Vinci was a talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. · He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him ... Famous Painters Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:56:01 GMT http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/leonardo-da-vinci-t10.htm#23 http://equinox.editboard.com/famous-painters-f8/leonardo-da-vinci-t10.htm