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Gaudí was born on 25 June 1852 in Riudoms or Reus [10] to coppersmith Francesc Gaudí i Serra (1813–1906) [11] and Antònia Cornet i Bertran (1819–1876). He was the youngest of five children, and far outlived the other two who survived to adulthood: Rosa (1844–1879) and Francesc (1851–1876).
Lasdun's Hallfield School was the first clue to his mature style, in its use of bare concrete and angularity, as well as its more human scale. In the 1950s he was a partner with Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry and Lindsay Drake in Fry, Drew, Drake and Lasdun. His originality became more evident in his 'cluster blocks' in Bethnal Green. These were a ...
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
Christopher Grant La Farge (1862–1938), who was a partner in the New York-based architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge. He designed projects in Beaux-Arts style , notably the original Byzantine Cathedral of St. John the Divine , the Yale undergraduate society St. Anthony Hall (extant 1893–1913) [ 20 ] and the original Astor Court buildings ...
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.
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In Greek thought, inspiration meant that the poet or artist would go into ecstasy or furor poeticus, the divine frenzy or poetic madness. The artist would be transported beyond their own mind and given the gods' or goddesses own thoughts to embody. Inspiration is prior to consciousness and outside of skill (ingenium in Latin). Technique and ...
It makes sense, then, that as Nurre’s career as a watercolor artist has taken off, so has her desire to pay tribute to the place she loves so dearly. ... In 2018, inspired by Kiawah’s storied ...