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Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Early life and education Vil han klare pynten (Will he round the point?, detail, 1879) Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne (The lifeboat is…

Ferdinand Lured by Ariel is an 1850 painting by John Everett Millais which depicts an episode from Act I, Scene II of Shakespeare’s c. 1611 play The Tempest. It illustrates Ferdinand‘s lines “Where should this music be? i’ the air or the earth?”. He is listening to Ariel singing the lyric “Full fathom five thy father lies”. Ariel is tipping Ferdinand’s hat…

The Yellow Christ (in French: Le Christ jaune) is a painting executed by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Together with The Green Christ, it is considered to be one of the key works of Symbolism in symbolic mythological paintings of the older era as represented by Symbolism . The Crucifix of Trémalo, Pont-Aven, an anonymous wood sculpture, 189 x 133 cm Gauguin first visited…

Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, executed during a trip to Italy around 1650. Many artists and art critics consider it the finest portrait ever created.[1] It is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome. A smaller version is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a study is…

Trained as a figure painter, Bendor Mark has devoted most of his art to political statements. Born Bernard Marcus and raised in Brooklyn, he studied art with William Brantley Van Ingen (b. 1858) at the Cooper Union in the late 1920s. During the early 1930s he supported himself as a textile designer. He became an…

(born June 4, 1944) Martínez was born in Laredo, Texas, and graduated from Texas A&I University, Kingsville in 1968. He now lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. A major figure in the Chicano Art Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s, Martínez’s portraits are icons of Mexican American art history. Deeply rooted in his…

Thomas Ball, (born June 3, 1819, Charlestown, Mass., U.S.—died Dec. 11, 1911, Montclair, N.J.), sculptor whose work had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England. Ball began his career as a wood engraver and miniaturist. An accomplished musician, he fashioned many early cabinet busts of musicians. Among his best-known works are an equestrian statue…

Franco Mondini-Ruiz is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1961. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Morgan Lehman Gallery have featured Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s work in the past. Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 35 USD to 6,785 USD, depending on the size and…

Cynthia Schira has been exhibiting internationally for over 40 years. Her work is represented in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art and the Museum Bellerive in Zurich. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a…

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. In 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ‘uncle’, the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose…