Articles related to "History Painting"

Gericault a French Neo-Baroque painter is most known for this dramatic painting based on actual events.

Intimate and often pensive, a still life evokes the allure of physical objects. Many stylistic movements, from realist to abstract, have produced masterful still lifes.

The formal analysis of Poussin's history painting clarifies how and why this work acquired canonical status in western art.

The French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1775-1842) managed to forge a career and earn a living as a professional artist in the patriarchal milieu of the time.

The RA presents two displays: "High Art: Reynolds and History Painting 1780-1815" and "High Life: Celebrating the Loan of W P Frith's Private View at the Royal Academy".

Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque era whose specialization in depicting ordinary scenes in domestic interior made him a successful businessman.

Realism was the first revolutionary art movement which openly and explicitly posed a challenge to the authorities and is regarded as the first avant-garde movement.

Like Nicolas Poussin, Claude became one of the most revered artists of the 17th century and this classicist landscape is a firm fixture of western canon of art.

The almost forgotten De Bray family, a dominant artistic dynasty famous throughout 17th-century Holland, are enjoying a comeback at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

Academies were powerful institutions that determined success of an artist and had an enormous influence on how the public were presented with and perceived art.

From the sixteenth century, artistic education and training became systematically institutionalized in a bid to elevate art practice into a respectable profession.

Synthetism marks a move within avant-garde at the end of the19th century, towards art's autonomy based on purification of forms and independence of external influences.

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas originally sought a career as a history painter but he is most known for his paintings of dancers, racehorse subjects and female nudes.

Test your knowledge of these 17th-century Dutch painters and absorb perhaps-obscure facts about them.

These self-portraits by European artists - Heemskerck from the 16th century and von Marées and Courbet from the 19th century - feature realism.