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In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master") [1] [2] refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving, woodcut, or etching) made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way.
An old master print (also spaced masterprint) is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition. The term remains current in the art trade , and there is no easy alternative in English to distinguish the works of " fine art " produced in printmaking from the vast range of decorative, utilitarian and popular prints ...
Old masters usually applied paint in thin layers known as "glazes" that allow light to penetrate completely through the layer, a method also simply called "indirect painting". This technique is what gives oil paintings their luminous characteristics.
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The Oldmasters Museum (French: Musée Oldmasters; Dutch: Oldmasters Museum) is an art museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Old Master European painters of the 15th to the 18th centuries, with some later works.
Traditional accounts give Laozi the personal name Li Er (李耳, Lǐ Ěr), whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *C.rəʔ C.nəʔ. [1] Li is a common Chinese surname which also has the meaning meaning 'plum' or 'plum tree' when used as a common noun; there is a legend tying Laozi's birth to a plum tree. [5]
Old Masters may also refer to: Old Masters, a 1985 Austrian novel; Old Masters (box set), a Frank Zappa album box set series; Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery), an art gallery in Dresden, Germany; Laozi, literally "Old Master", the legendary Chinese sage to whom the Tao Te Ching is attributed; Joe Gans, known as the "Old Master ...
Eighty-three years after leaving her master’s program at Stanford University for love, 105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop returned to earn her degree.