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académie
A French term for a private art school, several of which flourished in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term atelier libre has also been used to refer to such establishments. ...
Adolfo Venturi
(b Modena, 4 Sept. 1856; d Santa Margherita Ligure, nr. Genoa, 10 June 1941).The most distinguished Italian art historian of his generation. He taught at the university of Rome ...
Adolphe Monticelli
(b Marseilles, 14 Oct. 1824; d Marseilles, 29 June 1886).French painter, active in his native Marseilles and in Paris. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche, but he learned more from his studies of Old ...
Aix, Musée Granet
Founded in 1821. It takes its name from the local painter and museum administrator François-Marius Granet, who was made an honorary director of the museum in 1844 and who left ...
Ambroise Vollard
(b Saint-Denis, Réunion, Indian Ocean, 3 July 1866; d Paris, 22 July 1939).French dealer, connoisseur, publisher, and writer, one of the most important champions of avant-garde art in the ...
Amedeo Modigliani
(1884–1920)Italian painter, sculptor, and draughtsman known for his melancholy elongated portraits.The fourth son of a wealthy Italian Jewish banker who lost his money, Modigliani suffered during his ...
André Derain
(1880–1954)French painter and prominent member of the fauve group of artists.The Paris exhibition of Van Gogh's paintings in 1901 had a powerful effect on Derain's development as a painter. With ...
Armory Show
An art exhibition (officially entitled the International Exhibition of Modern Art) held in New York, 17 February–15 March 1913, at the Armory of the National Guard's Sixty-Ninth Regiment, Lexington ...
Arshile Gorky
1905–1958)Armenian-born US painter, who has been described as the last of the great surrealists and the first of the abstract expressionists.Gorky arrived in the USA in 1920 and in 1925 moved to New ...
Arturo Tosi
(1871–1956)Italian painter, primarily of landscape but also of still-life. He was born at Busto Arsizio and worked mainly in nearby Milan. Tosi has been called a ‘natural’ or ‘instinctive’ painter ...
Auguste Rodin
(b Paris, 12 Nov. 1840; d Meudon, nr. Paris, 17 Nov. 1917).French sculptor and draughtsman, one of the greatest and most influential European artists of his period. He was ...
Australian art
The art of European origin in Australia can be traced back to 1788, when a British penal colony was established at Sydney Cove. The first non-Aboriginal examples of graphic art ...
Bloomsbury Group
A group of writers, artists, and philosophers living in or associated with Bloomsbury in the early 20th century. Members of the group, which included Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, ...
Boston: patronage and collecting
Although the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded by Puritans had a famous aversion to visual seduction, Boston has long quietly produced avid patrons and collectors of art. The painter John Smibert ...
Camille Corot
(b Paris, 17 July 1796; d Paris, 22 Feb. 1875).French painter, mainly of landscapes. His father was a textile merchant and his mother a fashionable dressmaker, and he was expected to follow them into ...
Camille Pissarro
(b Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, Virgin Islands, 10 July 1830; d Paris, 13 Nov. 1903).French painter, printmaker, and draughtsman, born in the West Indies, where his parents (a French-Jewish father ...
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales
The museum was founded in 1907 following a parliamentary resolution of 1903; however, the present building, by Smith and Brewer, in a classical revival style, was not completed until 1927. ...
Carlo Carrà
(b Quargnento, Piedmont, 11 Feb. 1881; d Milan, 13 Apr. 1966).Italian painter and writer on art, a prominent figure in both Futurism and Metaphysical Painting. He joined the Futurists in 1909, and ...
Cézanne, Paul (1839–1906) Quick reference
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A friend of Pissarro, Cézanne exhibited at the first Impressionist show In 1874. House of the Hanged Man
Cézanne, Paul (1839–1906) Reference library
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(1839–1906).
One of the decisive sources of 20th‐c. painting, Cézanne grew up in Aix with Zola. In
