Oil Painting

Government institutions in China were consistent with a similar pattern of about two thousand years, but each dynasty set up special offic...

In the 14th century, the city of Venice in Italy was one of the richest in all over the world. Among the wealthiest of its merchants was An...

History: Jan Kobell was a Dutch animal and landscape painter. Biography: He was a pupil of Willem Rutgaart van der Wall at Utrecht. He...

In the popular imagination English landscape painting from the 18th century onwards typifies English art, inspired largely from the love of...

Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – 10 March 1903) was a French-born British artist who specialized in genre painting of children and women, ...

Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750) is an oil painting by British artist Thomas Gainsborough. The artist was in his early twenties when he painted th...

Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Pari...

The term bodega in Spanish can mean "pantry", "tavern", or "wine cellar". The derived term bodegon is an augm...

Claude Monet, born Oscar Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926), was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most co...

The workshop tradition and division of labor within both an individual miniature and a book, as described above, complicates the attributi...

The emperor Akbar (1556–1605) built largely, and the style developed robustly during his reign. As in the Gujarat and other styles, there i...

In the time of Shah Jahan, the Deccan had been controlled by three Muslim kingdoms: Ahmednagar (Nizams), Bijapur (Adilshahi) and Golconda ...

Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, also known as Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam or Akbar the Great (15 October 1542 – 27 October 1605, was the third Mugha...

There are nearly numerous numbers of traditional teahouses throughout Iran, and each region features its own unique cultural presentation o...

Giotto's most famous works are the mural paintings in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. These were painted sometime between 1303 and 1310....

Puppetry is an extremely ancient art form, thought to have originated about 30,000 years ago. Puppets have been used since the earliest tim...

During Sergeant’s long career, he painted more than 2,000 watercolors, wandering from the English countryside to Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu...

John Singer Sargent was an American painter, and a leading portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created nearly 900 oil painti...

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and print maker, best known for his oceanic subject...

Portrait painting is a variety of painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animal...