Artist Birthday: Kanō Motonobu
The Kanō School artists—the favored group of painters for the nobility and shogunate—worked in a variety of genre, including traditional yamato-e that included bright patterns and gold lea ...
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Artist Birthday: Jost Amman
Like the German Renaissance, the Swiss Renaissance witnessed the flourishing of all the graphic arts, which included woodcut, engraving, etching, and drawing. One of the rich characteristics of German ...
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Importance of Portraits IV: Rosa Bonheur
Yes, I’m including a doggie portrait in my ongoing ode to the portrait. Whether a dog, cat, bird, squirrel, ermine, or fish, animals have been part of portraiture in western art since the reviva ...
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