From Robert Nanteuil’s first pastel portraits in the 1660s to Ants Laikmaa in 1929, a history of the greatest pastel painters and links to articles about individual artists.
history of painting
A close friend of Pissarro, he painted in company with him, CĂ©zanne, and Guillaumin in the country close to Pontoise, but stopped exhibiting after 1881.
This play, responsible for the burning down of the Globe Theatre, tells the story of Henry’s divorce from Queen Katherine and the birth of Queen Elizabeth I.
Resuming the trip at Argenteuil, with Caillebotte and Monet, we pass Renoir at Chatou, La Grenouillère, on to Les Andelys, then to the sea at Honfleur, with Monet again.
Superb 19th and early 20th century landscape paintings of the River Seine from Sisley country through the centre of Paris to La Grande Jatte.
In the last decade of his career, he visited Venice twice and painted it extensively. He also turned more to watercolours.
A pupil of Carol’s-Duran, he switched to Divisionism/Pointillism in 1891, when Georges Seurat died. Early paintings are gentle and delicate before he turned the chroma up.
A French Impressionist, he painted alongside Pissarro and CĂ©zanne, and was key in introducing Pissarro to Seurat and Neo-Impressionism.
From about 1900, he painted almost exclusively in pastel, finely realist works that rendered surface optical properties to perfection.
A traditional English farce, starring Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s favourite characters, who sets out to seduce two married women.
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