Oil Painting

Boris Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan into the family of a lecturer of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theologic...

Welsh art refers to the traditions in the visual arts associated with Wales and its people. Wales cannot claim to have been a major artisti...

The 1812 Blaze of Moscow bankrupt out on September 14, 1812 in Moscow on the day if Russian troops and a lot of association alone the city...

Cornelis de Graeff, also Cornelis de Graeff van was the most memorable member of the De Graeff family. He was a mayor of Amsterdam from th...

Carlos IV of Spain and His Family is oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya completed in the summer of 1800. It featu...

Allegory: The allegory is a figurative mode of representation, which means transportation other than the literal. Allegory communicates it...

George tot Sint Jans (ca. 1465 - ca. 1495), ook bekend als George van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Ghe...

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...