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This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Jan van Eyck. Jan van Eyck (b. 1390 –1441) is one of the most important painters of Early Northern Renaissance art. A small number of existing documentations of his premature...

Yosa Buson was a Japanese poet of haikai and an Edo period artist. Together with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, he is considered one of the greatest poets and artists of the Edo period in Japanese history. Buson was native from the village of Kema in the province of Settsu. His first name was Taniguchi. At...

Lan Ying (1585-1664), who had a pseudonym Tianshu, was a Chinese painter of landscapes, a human figure, flowers and birds who was active during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Lan Ying was born in Qiantang (modern Hangzhou) and spent most of his early life there. One of his nicknames was Xihu Waishi,...

Peter Candid was born in Bruges in a family of a Flemish tapestry artist. His father moved to live and worked in Florence, Italy, when Little Peter was 10, so the artist's entire career was outside his native Holland. He studied the art of painting at first with his father who was a tapestry weaver,...

Gaspar de Crayer is a Flemish artist born in Antwerp, who has lived and worked for most of his life in Brussels. He comes from a family of artist, his father Gaspar de Crayer. The old de Crayer was also a painter and art dealer. Even when he was very young, Gaspar de Crayer moved to the capital of...

De Vos was a prolific artist who has created a large number of works in the areas of large-size paintings on canvas, drawings and oil sketches. He often signed his works but never dated them. His theme is varied and includes scenes of hunting with dogs, dogs, and cats that ride and bird concerts....

Gonzalès's work, according to some art historians, cannot be considered innovative but has charm and a sense of sincere personal expression, which gives her considerable value. Salon reviewers appreciated Gonzalès' paintings for their natural intuition with which she had expressed her art, as well...

Adam Elsheimer was born in Germany, Frankfurt am Main, one of ten children, in a family of master-tailor. Artist Philipp Uffenbach apprenticed him. He probably visited Strasbourg in 1596. Twenty years old he traveled to Italy via Munich, where he was documented in 1598. His stay in Venice has not...

Frans Pourbus the Younger, often referred to simply as “Frans II” to be distinguished by his father Frans Pourbus the Elder (“Frans I”)  originated from a descendant family of artists, his grandfathers were also members of the Antwerp Art Guild. Pourbus the Younger was an associate of the...

Jan Miel was almost certainly natural from Flemish town Beveren-Waas. Miel’s premature learning took place in Antwerp. His visit to Rome for near 20 years is recorded. There Miel became an associate of the so-called “Bentvueghels”, a group of mostly Dutch and Flemish painters. In Italian capital,...

Boel mostly followed the style of his teacher Jan Fyt, especially in his smaller compositions, including rabbits or several birds outdoors. His compositions differ from Jan Fyt's works in their restraint and smoother and more controlled paint handling. His palette also differs from that of Fit in...

Like many of the great Chinese artists, Lu Ji also copied paintings by ancient masters from the Tang and Sun, who had the opportunity to study in the Emperor's collection. He studied the art of imaging birds of his contemporaries, Bian Jinghao, and Lin Liang. The Flowers and Birds pictures created...

Jin Nong was born in 1687 in Hangzhou. He became famous as a painter and calligrapher while living as a childless widow in Yangzhou only after he was fifty years old. His paintings of "mei" blossoms were particularly sought after there. He belonged to The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Jin...

Hendrick de Clerck was a typical representative of Flemish Manierism from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Although he worked at the border of two eras and two styles in Flemish art - those of Mannerism and Baroque - de Clerck until the end of his career remained faithful to the stylistic of...