Paintings
by Women Artists in History
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) is considered the first important
woman artist of the Renaissance, and the first female painter to enjoy
international reputation. Unusual for this period in women's art
history, her father was not an artist, but a provincial nobleman in Cremona,
who decided to educate his seven children, six daughters and one son, according
to the humanist ideals of the Renaissance. Sofonisba’s sisters Elena
and Lucia Anguissola became painters.
Women
of the Romantic Period
This interactive hypertext uses Richard Polwhele's poem "The
Unsex'd Females" to introduce students and scholars alike to some of the
British Romantic Period's foremost female contributors. In his poem, Polwhele
invokes the rigid standard of feminine behavior held by many members of
eighteenth-century society as he asserts that a certain breed of women
-- the unsex'd females -- transgressed the limits of that which was acceptable.
Since Polwhele addresses these women by name in "The Unsex'd Females,"
the poem provides a means of examining closely some of the many female
figures often excluded from the traditional British Romantic Period canon.
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Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio (1573-1610). Probably the most revolutionary artist of his
time, the Italian painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided
a century of artists before him. They had idealized the human and religious
experience.
Mark
Harden's Artchive - "Edouard Manet"
Edouard Manet was born into the ranks of the Parisian bourgeoisie on
January 29, 1832. His Mother, Eugenie-Desiree Fournier, was a woman of
refinement and god daughter of Charles Bernadotte, the Crown Prince of
Sweden. Edouard's father, Auguste Manet, was a magistrate and judge who
hoped that Edouard would someday follow in his footsteps, but Edouard was
destined to follow another path.
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Harden's Artchive - "Claude Monet"
This is one of the flattest landscapes ever painted. At around
the same time, Cezanne was flattening his still lifes by distorting the
tables to a vertical orientation. Monet stops short of distortion through
a
judicious choice of subject. A hillside staircase provides the form
for a dramatic flattening of the painting.
Giambattista
Tiepolo: Presentation
The plan to stage a major exhibition of Giambattista Tiepolo's work
on the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of his birth is the
result of the joint efforts of the main cultural institutions in
Venice -
Biography,
school, and time period
The Renaissance period was among the most productive artistic
periods in history. French for "rebirth," the Renaissance was a time where
science and art mixed. Many artists were doing their own dissections to
learn more about the human anatomy ("Dauben"). With this knowledge, they
could create more accurate reproductions of the human form in their work,
ultimately making it more lifelike.
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Ghirlandaio, Domenico
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449-94). Florentine painter. He trained
with Baldovinetti and possibly with Verrocchio. His style was solid, prosaic,
and rather old-fashioned (especially when compared with that of his great
contemporary Botticelli), but he was an excellent craftsman and good businessman
and had one of the most prosperous workshops in Florence.
William
H. Johnson
"William H. Johnson arrived in Harlem when the Renaissance was in the
making. He had come to New York in 1918 from Florence, South Carolina,
and became a student at the national Academy of Design. He remained there
for five years, absorbing the teachings of George Luks and Charles
Hawthorne, and readying himself for a career in art that would take him
to places in North Africa and Europe in search of a permanent residence.
It was through the influence of Hawthorne that Johnson traveled first to
Paris in 1926, where he settled, painted, and studied the works of modern
European masters."