Renaissance Artists , 1449-94  Related Paintings of Domenicho Ghirlandaio :. | Stifterbildnis,Francesca Pitti-Tornabuoni | Details of Bestatigung der Ordensregel der Franziskaner | Nera Corsi Sassetti | Anbetung der Konige | Detail of Geburt Johannes des Taufers |
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Marie Caire Tonoir
Naturalist artist France 1860-1934
Jean de Liege
Flemish Gothic Era Sculptor, active 1361-1382
Antoine Berjon
French Romantic Painter, 1754-1843,French painter, teacher and designer. According to his uncorroborated 19th-century biographer J. Gaubin, he was intended for holy orders and began studying flower painting as a novice (Rev. Lyon., i, 1856). Certainly he studied drawing under the sculptor Antoine-Michel Perrache (1726-79) and worked for Lyon's silk industry as a textile designer, visiting Paris annually, ostensibly to keep abreast of the latest fashions. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1791 and settled in Paris in about 1794, probably as a consequence of the catastrophic siege and destruction of Lyon by revolutionary forces the previous year. Initially he eked out a precarious living decorating snuff-boxes and painting miniatures, supported by friends such as Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, the poetess, and the miniature painter Jean-Baptiste Augustin, to whom Berjon dedicated The Gift (1797; Lyon, Mus. B.-A.). He contributed to seven Paris Salons between 1796 and 1819 and again in 1842, and he had built up a considerable reputation for his work by the early 19th century.