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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.
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.
Morris deemed calligraphy to be an art form, and taught himself both Roman and italic script, as well as learning how to produce gilded letters. [106] In November 1872 he published Love is Enough, a poetic drama based on a story in the Medieval Welsh text, the Mabinogion. Illustrated with Burne-Jones woodcuts, it was not a popular success. [107]
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]
El Greco was a nickname, [a] and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek. El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete ), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice , Italy, and the center of Post ...
His experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors. The largest collection of Marin's paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, and photographs are at the Colby College Museum of Art , the John Marin Collection, given to the college by John Marin Jr. and Norma B ...
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
James Rosenquist (1933–2017), American artist; Alexander Roslin (1718–1798), Swedish portrait painter; Toros Roslin (1210–1270), Armenian manuscript illuminator; Alex Ross (born 1970), American book artist and designer; Bob Ross (1942–1995), American painter and art instructor; Clifford Ross (born 1952), American painter, sculptor and ...