Maria Tsaneva: 62 books

Paul Sérusier was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. They originated as a rebellious group of young student artists...

Evelyn De Morgan (1855 – 1919) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. During her lifetime Evelyn De Morgan produced approximately 102 oil paintings and over 300 drawings. At first glance, works like Flora (1894), Cadmus and Harmonia (1877), Eos (1895) and Night and Sleep (1878) appear to be that of...

Kensett was an American painter and engraver, a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School. His works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose bright light and calm depicting rejoice splendid qualities of nature, and are connected with Luminism. Kensett's early...

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843 – 1902) was a Polish 19th-century painter active in the period of foreign Partitions of Poland, and best remembered for his monumental Academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned...

Francisco Goya is considered as the most significant painter of Spain for the late 18-th and near the beginning 19-th centuries. Over the line of his extended career, he transformed from cheerful and bright to deeply negative in his paintings and drawings. Goya completed some 500 oil paintings and murals,...

Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia...

Henri-Edmond Cross was a French painter and print maker, most applauded as a master of Neo-Impressionism who played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. His early paintings are typically Pointillist, with closely and regularly positioned tiny dots of color. Later, he gradually...

Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. Hill’s work was often driven by a vision resulting from his experiences with nature. For him, Yosemite Valley and the White Mountains of New Hampshire were his sources of inspiration to begin painting and captured his direct response to nature....

Eugene de Blaas was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism.It was in Venice that de Blaas excelled and established himself as a leading oil painter of Venetian genre and figures paintings. He depicted scenes which were characteristic of Venice, such as the local fishermen, beautiful...

Albert Lebourg was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School and Member of the Société des Artistes Français. He actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. Lebourg worked mainly in Paris, Rouen...

József Rippl-Rónai (1861 – 1927) was a Hungarian painter who first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art. In 1888 he met the members of Les Nabis and under their influence he painted his first important work, The Inn at Pont-Aven, a deeply felt work notable for its dark atmosphere....

Sir John Lavery was an Irish artist best known for his portraits of the rich and famous, caught in a mood of elegant relaxation. He exhibited at all the most important European salons and secessions. Lavery traveled widely between World War I and World War II, producing many ‘portrait interiors'. His...

Adolph Menzel was a German artist famous for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Beside with Caspar Friedrich, Menzel is regarded one of the two most important German artists of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his time in Germany. His popularity in his native country was such that...

George Romney was a British painter who was one of the leading society portraitists of the 18th Century. Romney was a prolific painter and produced about 2,000 paintings and 5,000 drawings during his lifetime. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including...