Pietro di Giovanni d’Amborgio is an Italian painter of the 15th century, one of the most active and fruitful masters of the Sienese school. In
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Konrad Witz is a representative of the Swiss school of painting of the Northern Renaissance, whose work was closely associated with the city of Basel.
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The collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel contains two small works by the 15th-century Dutch master Gerard David. Initially, they were a folding diptych created for
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John Duncan was born in the Scottish city of Dundee. There were no artists in his family, but the boy was artistically gifted and at
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Jean Dubuffet and his collection of Drawings of mentally ill people In the late 1940s, the unthinkable happened. The artist and sculptor from France Jean
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“Portrait of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy” are two paintings simultaneously painted by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi in 1873. On each of them the writer is depicted sitting
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Sometimes geniuses make mistakes. A talented sculptor may end up with an unsightly statue, but a great landscape painter will miss the mark with proportions.
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At all times, painters have been attracted to subjects associated with extreme situations and vivid emotional disturbances, capable of emphasizing both the highest and lowest
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In 1843, Henry Cole, inspired by the then widespread “universal” cards (in which the sender could include the recipient’s name, event, greeting and signature), commissioned
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The painting “Dido Founder of Carthage” by William Turner was created by the artist based on the “Aeneid” – the famous work of the Roman
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