Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1466-1516
Italian painter and draughtsman. A pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, he was active mainly in Milan and was particularly noted as a portrait painter. Related Paintings of BOLTRAFFIO, Giovanni Antonio :. | The Virgin and Child (detail) | The Poet Casio u | Portrait of Gerolamo Casio | Portrait of a Magistrate | The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian Between Two Donors (mk05) | Related Artists:
Cesare Mussinipainted Atala in 1835
William-Adolphe Bouguereau(November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncle Eugene, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau showed artistic talent early on and his father was convinced by a client to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where he won first prize in figure painting for a depiction of Saint Roch. To earn extra money, he designed labels for jams and preserves
Calcar, Johan Stephen vonor Calcker, German- practiced mainly in Italy, 1499-1546