Antoine-Louis Barye – the artist who made all ill-wishers recognize the beauty and grandeur of the animal genre Antoine-Louis Barye (September 24, 1795 – June
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Edme Bouchardon – the favorite artist of Louis XV and the most famous representative of the family dynasty of French sculptors Edme Bouchardon (May 29,
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Paul Kane is a Canadian painter who forever captures the life of American Indians for posterity Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 February 20, 1871) is
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt – an eccentric sculptor who abandoned his clients without regret and became a hermit in order to realize an unusual creative idea
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The Order of Saint Michael — from Medieval France to the Present Day The Order of Saint Michael is the first secular award of France
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Antonio Cortellazzo (1819-1903), son of Pietro and Elisabetta Tomasi, was born in Vicenza on 18 February 1820. There is no precise information about where this
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The famous jeweler Johann Melchior Dinglinger (1664-1731) was born into a family of ironmongers from the town of Biberach an der Ries (Baden-Württemberg). Johann was
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The Massieu dynasty of ceramicists has been known in the south of France since the beginning of the 18th century, when Pierre Massieu (1707-1748) opened
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Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov is a painting painted by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy in 1876. The famous patron, admirer and collector of Russian art is depicted
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Thomas Hart Benton – a failed politician who, against his father’s wishes, chose a career as an artist and lived a happy life with his
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