Memorials
of world art |
| In
this month were born: |
MARCH |
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| March 6 - 535th anniversary of Michelangelo's
birth. |
| March 6, 1475 – Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor,
a painter, an architect and a poet, one of the greatest representatives
of the Renaissance culture. |
| March 26 or 28, 1483 - Raphael Santi, a great Italian
painter, an architect and graphic artist of the Early Renaissance
epoch. |
| March 8, 1578 (christening date) - Adam Elsheimer,
a German painter. Elsheimer’s pictures are remarkable for simplicity
and humanity of images on them and for delicate processing of illumination
effects. Many European masters (Rembrandt, P. Rubens, K. Lorren, etc.)
were influenced by Elsheimer’s works. |
| March 14, 1593 (christening date) - George de Latuor,
a French painter, a follower of Karavadzho, used genre painting and
a contrast treatment of light and shade in work. |
| March 22, 1599 – Anthony Van Dyck, an outstanding
Flemish painter. He has created masterpieces of Flemish realistic
art. Anthony Van Dyck is a master of full of a life and expressive
portraits. Anthony Van Dyck created gala-portraits in baroque style. |
| March 3, 1716 - Alexey Petrovich Antropov,
an outstanding Russian painter, a portraitist, an author of monumental
wall paintings. |
| March 22, 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, a German
painter, the largest representative of classicism, one of the best
pastellists in Germany, a master of the allegorical painting and the
portrait, a theorist of the art. |
| March 30, 1746 - Francisco Goya, an outstanding
Spanish painter, an engraver and graphic artist. In works Goya has
reached rare insight and skill of painting. Goya is a master of the
portrait, decorative panel and monumental wall painting. |
| March 9, 1777 - Alexander Osipovich Orlovskyi,
a Polish painter and graphic artist. For many years he was working
in Russia. Orlovskyi has contributed to development of realism in
Russian art, mainly in the graphics. |
| March 20 - 170th anniversary of Illarion
Pryanishnikov's birth. |
| March 20, 1840 - Illarion Mihayilovich Pryanishnikov,
a Russian painter, an author of pictures with hunting themes and genre
painting. |
| March 30, 1853 - Vinsent Van Gogh, a Dutch painter,
one of the greatest artists of the 19th century. Van Gogh used colour
spectrum based on sharp color contrasts. He used an intensive and
dynamical painting manner with sinuous strokes of the painting-brush.
In this manner Van Gogh created numerous landscapes, still lifes,
portraits and interiors. |
| March 5, 1856 - Mikhael Alekseevich Vrubel, a Russian
painter, one of the best colorists and graphic artists in his time.
|
| March 24, 1859 - Vasily Evmenievich Savinsky, a
Russian painter. |
| March 10 - 130th anniversary of Alexander
Kuprin's birth. |
| March 10, 1880 - Alexander Vasilyevich Kuprin,
a Russian artist - landscape writer. |
