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The Bocage country of northwestern France, particularly in regions like Normandy and Brittany, appears at first glance to be a simple pastoral landscape. But on closer examination, this region reveals itself as…
The earliest gestures of art in what is now Warsaw were not carved into cathedral stone or painted on chapel walls, but pressed into wet clay and scored into bone by people…
Zorn’s art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the…
Edelfelt was one of the first Finnish artists to achieve international fame. He enjoyed considerable success in Paris, including a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889. His painted portraits of…
Giovanni Giacometti, born on March 7, 1868, in Stampa, Switzerland, was a Swiss painter and father of renowned sculptors Alberto and Diego Giacometti. Though often overshadowed by the fame of his sons,…
Evelyn De Morgan, a British painter associated with the late 19th and early 20th-century Pre-Raphaelite movement, was born on August 30, 1855, in London, England, as Mary Evelyn Pickering. Her artistic career…
Sous l’Arbre Rose” (Under the Pink Tree) is a distinguished work by the French painter Gaston La Touche (1854-1913), a prominent artist known for his versatility, painting everything from portraits and landscapes…
Eero Järnefelt, a Finnish painter, was born on November 8, 1863, in Viipuri, Finland (now Vyborg, Russia). He emerged as one of the leading figures of Finnish art during the late 19th…
Daniel Garber, born on April 11, 1880, in North Manchester, Indiana, was an American landscape painter associated with the Pennsylvania Impressionist movement. Renowned for his luminous and vibrant depictions of the American…
Arguably, Breton’s fame peaked posthumously in 1934 at The Chicago World’s Fair. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled The Song of the Lark as the winner of the Chicago Daily News contest to…
Welcome back to the most anticipated event in our calendar, the grand unveiling of this year’s entrants into The Art Bog Hall of Fame! Every year since 2003, we’ve embarked on the…
In 1884, Eliseu Visconti entered the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where studied under Victor Meireles. Parallel to his studies in the Liceu, he entered the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (English: Brazilian Imperial Academy)…