This 18th century Russian Neoclassical sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, and teacher vacillated for quite some time before settling on sculpture as his primary life’s work.
This German-born Uruguayan artist and academic moved to NYC in 1964, where he and fellow artists Liliana Porter & José Guillermo Castillo founded the New York Graphic Workshop.
This 18th century Venetian artist’s frescoes for the Ca’ Sagredo palace met with terrible critical reception, which may have led to his shift toward small genre paintings of everyday life.
This Cubist sculptor studied medicine at the University of Paris but gave up school for a career in art, previously an avocation, when rheumatic fever forced him to abandon his studies.
This Italian Baroque artist created easel paintings and large decorations in Rome, Naples, Mantua, and Bologna for patrons including Pope Paul V and Italy’s top royalty.
This 20th Century artist would work for as long as it took to realize his vision, sculpting without looking at the clock and saying, “I’m in no hurry. It’ll take a year if need be.”
What Italian Baroque painter, together with his cousin and his older brother, was painting Europe’s most radical and innovative pictures during the 1580s?
What artist documented American life from the 1920s to the 1970s, earning a reputation as one of the country’s most influential photographers?
What painter ranks among the most admired of all Dutch artists but was much less well known in his own day than today, primarily because he produced just a small number of paintings?
What artist was one of the most important and controversial photographers of the 20th Century, creating highly erotic, bold, and provocative fashion and editorial photos?
Which artist, born in Switzerland and seen as a child prodigy, went on to be one of the only two women founder-members of the Royal Academy of Arts in London?
Which artist, a British citizen who spent most of his life in France, was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air?
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