Category: Artist Biographies
Grigory Myasoyedov: Biography
Grigoriy Masiodev was one of the founders of the Peredvizhniki, or the Association of Travelling...
Read MoreAmrita Sher-Gil: Biography
Amrita Sher-Gil is remembered for her profound exploration of artistic traditions from both the Orient...
Read MoreKuzma Petrov-Vodkin: Biography
Kuzma Petrov Vodkin was born in Khvalynsk and was one of the most distinctive Russian...
Read MorePandit Seu: Biography
Pandit Seu (c. 1680–1740) was a pivotal master painter of northern India who established the...
Read MoreCaravaggio: Biography
Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) became one of the key representatives of Baroque...
Read MoreEugene Boudin: Biography
Nineteenth-century France witnessed the emergence of one of the finest landscape painters of the time,...
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci: Biography
One of the most celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was a...
Read MoreShibata Zeshin: Biography
Nineteenth-century Japanese artists who made a art of lacquer into a medium for painting and...
Read MoreJuan Francisco de Aguilera: Biography
Juan Francisco de Aguilera is a significant figure from 18th-century Mexico who contributed to the...
Read MoreWilliam Müller: Biography
When you look at the 19th-century British art scene, William James Müller is a name...
Read MoreCavaliere d’Arpino: Biography
Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640), better known as the Cavaliere d’Arpino, was an Italian painter and one...
Read MoreMadhu: Biography
Madhu Khanazad was an accomplished painter associated with the imperial atelier of the Mughal emperor...
Read MoreVittore Carpaccio: Biography
Vittore Carpaccio was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was taught by...
Read MoreAbulHasan Sani olMolk: Biography
Mirza Abu’l-Hasan Khan Ghaffari widely known by his royal title ‘Sani al-Mulk” which meant craftsman...
Read MoreGustave Courbet: Biography
Gustave Courbet was far from the typical rule obeying artist, he was a fierce rebel...
Read MoreNihal Chand: Biography
Nihal Chand (c. 1710 – after 1782) was the pre-eminent painter of the Kishangarh school,...
Read MoreGolu: Biography
Golu of Nurpur occupies an important position in the history of Pahari miniature painting. Active...
Read MoreSamarendranath Gupta: Biography
Samarendranath Gupta (1887–1964) was an eminent artist, printmaker, and pioneer of modern Indian art pedagogy...
Read MorePelegrin Clave: Biography
Born in Catalonia, Pelegrin Clave is a painter of the Romantic era, who became the...
Read MoreMuhammad Sharif: Biography
Muhammad Sharif is one of those Mughal-court figures who’s easy to overlook precisely because his...
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