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Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and was a junior in the practice of Wells Coates. Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson , Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , but there was a gentler, more classical ...
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet [3] (/ ɡ aʊ ˈ d i / gow-DEE, / ˈ ɡ aʊ d i / GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; [4] 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. [5]
American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
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The Belgian architect Victor Horta was among the first to introduce the whiplash curve into Art Nouveau architecture, particularly in the wrought iron stairways and complementary ceramic floors and painted walls of the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93). The lines were inspired by the curving stems of plants and flowers.
From the unexpected naturalism of Rodin's first major figure – inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy – to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, his reputation grew, and Rodin became the preeminent French sculptor of his time. By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist.
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507), official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice; Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family; Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400–c. 1470), painter, father of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini; Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/1722–1780), urban landscape painter and printmaker