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Pieter Bruegel, l\'Ancien (prs de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569) Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d\'une famille d\'artistes, actifs durant quatre gnrations. D\'abord dessinateur avant de devenir...
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Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Florence, 1445 – 1510) Botticelli tait le fils d\'un citoyen jouissant d\'une situation confortable, et avait t «instruit dans toutes les choses que les enfants...
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Vincent van Gogh (Groot-Zundert, Brabant, 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) La vie et l\'oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh sont si troitement lies qu\'il est quasiment impossible de voir ses toiles sans y lire le rcit de sa vie...
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« chaque ge son art, chaque art sa libert. » Voila la devise de la Scession viennoise, mouvement dissident (1892-1906), qui fut port par une vingtaine d’artistes clairs luttant contre l’acadmisme conservateur...
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En associant le mot rocaille, rfrence aux formes alambiques des coquillages, l’italien baroco, les Franais donnrent naissance au terme de « rococo ». Apparu au dbut du XVIIIe sicle, il s’tendit rapidement l’ensemble...
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Terme entr dans l’usage courant au cours de la premire moiti du XIXe sicle, l’art roman distingue, en histoire de l’art, la priode qui s’tend entre le dbut du XIe sicle jusqu’ la fin du XIIe sicle. Rvlant une grande...
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La priode de la Renaissance dbute en Italie la fin du XIVe sicle et s’tend sur tout le continent europen jusqu’ la seconde moiti du XVIe sicle. La redcouverte des splendeurs de la Grce et de la Rome antique marque les...
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La priode baroque s’tend du dbut du XVIIe sicle au milieu du XVIIIe sicle. Rponse des artistes l’exigence de grandeur solennelle prne par l’glise catholique de l’aprs concile de Trente, l’art baroque, par sa...
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Over the course of history, many wars have changed the political and cultural landscape of our world. While these events are defined by their upheaval and violence, they frequently contribute to the formation of the...
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Art Deco style was established on the ashes of a disappeared world, the one from before the First World War, and on the foundation stone of a world yet to become, opened to the most undisclosed promises. Forgetting...
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Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern...
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A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Knstlerhaus\' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole...
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Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread...
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In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique...
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The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the...
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Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind,...
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The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the...
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According to the predominant standards, a portrait should be a faithful representation of its model. However, this is not always the case. This gallery of 1,000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed...
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Featuring 1,000 internationally recognised paintings, this collection spans the history of art from the 13th century to the present, from the early stirrings of the Renaissance movement in Italy to the...
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1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art
From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, Decorative Art had been a fundamental part of the human experience for generations. While Fine Art is confined to galleries and museums, Decorative Art is the...
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Different eras and civilisations have treated erotic images with varying acceptance and different concepts of erotica and these tendencies are reflected within the works themselves. From ancient statues devoted to...
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Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, the art of Drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place in the sun. With major museums around the world, from the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focussed...
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“All living beings are Buddhas and have wisdom and virtue within them.” (Buddha) Buddha ranks among the most depicted holy figures of the world – perhaps appearing more than Christ, a subject widely treated by Western...
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Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing...
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Czanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human beings because he was...
