western paintings and prints
The Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century, as e.g. Jacob van Ruisdael.
Zurbaran was one of the most influential Spanish religious painters of the 17th century
They very seldom do. Since the middle of the 19th century oil paint is available in tubes, factory made. But as always there are painters who do not want to follow the majority.
Oil paintings originated in western Afghanistan between the 5th and 10th century. Oil paints were first used by Chinese and Indian painters in creating Buddhist paintings.
The purpose of painting is to reduce nature as closely as possible
The earliest chant manuscripts date from the 9th century. These manuscripts contain music composed for the liturgy of the Western Christian Church.
Absolutely none. The 'Druids' were supposedly a group of Brythons practicing arcane rites around stones.There is no mention of them apart from early Roman sources.Until the coming of the Anglo Saxons most of the population of Roman Brythonic society were illiterate. The Angles and Saxons commonly used runic symbols to write and they created the beautiful illuminated manuscripts which by the 10th century were famous throughout Northern Europe.
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The Book of Kells is kept at the Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland. It is one of the most famous and well-preserved medieval manuscripts in the world, dating back to around the 9th century.
It is important to know that until the middle of the 16th century no paintings were made without a commission. People contacted painters and asked them to make such and such a painting. Today artists produce what they like (through 'inspiration') and hope to sell it.
The Impressionists were the painters who were initially scorned for their blurry, fuzzy paintings.
The first were the Flemish Renaissance painters in the first half of the 15th century.
Paul Cézanne
The Impressionists were the painters who were initially scorned for their blurry, fuzzy paintings.
The Impressionists were the painters who were initially scorned for their blurry, fuzzy paintings.
Raja Ravi Varma
Caravaggio was one of the most influential painters of the 17th century.