GOTHIC and MYSTERIOUS CASTLES in surreal paintings by Bernard JEAN French painter, graphic artist, tapestry researcher and teacher Bernard Jean was born in Bourges (Dep.
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Heinrich Daniel Gumbs (1765-1831), a furniture maker originally from the Prussian town of Neuwied, was a student and assistant of the outstanding furniture maker David
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In St. Petersburg, the best master, to whom Faberge entrusted especially responsible orders, was Julius Rapport. He achieved incredible skill in working with silver and
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Maxfield Parrish is an American artist, one of the most important representatives of the Golden Age of illustration, whose work took place in the first
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Alberto Giacometti was also a prolific painter and graphic artist. His creative legacy includes over 1,000 plaster and bronze sculptures, several hundred paintings, and nearly
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Luis Masriera, inspired by the work of René Lalique at the Paris Exposition of 1900, introduced the concept of Art Nouveau to his firm’s jewelry
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The author of the first figured zoomorphic vessels, which began the craze of the British in these unusual and funny jugs in the early 1880s,
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Tobacco bottles were made from various materials: porcelain, jade, ivory, wood, glass, etc. A very small spoon was usually attached to the bottle to extract
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On the pages of foreign auctions, antique wine jugs are often referred to as Bordeaux jugs or claret jugs. With Bordeaux, everything is clear. The
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Shimansky Sergey Petrovich (born 1964) is a St. Petersburg stone-cutting artist, founder of the Creative Union of Stone-cutters of Russia. Cavalier of the Order of
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