Memorials
of world art |
| In this month
were born: |
MAY |
|
| May 21, 1471 - Albrecht Durer, a great German artist
of Renaissance. Durer's creativity had huge influence on the art of
his time. |
| May 14, 1727 (christening date) - Thomas Gejnsborough,
an English painter, the greatest English portraitist of the 18th century. |
| May 12 - 180th anniversary of Aleksey
Savrasov's birth. |
| May 12, 1830 - Aleksey Savrasov, a Russian painter
and landscape writer. |
| May 17 - 175th anniversary of Aleksander
Morozov's birth. |
| May 17, 1835 - Aleksander Morozov, a Russian painter. |
| May 27, 1837 - Ivan Kramskoj, a Russian painter,
one of the greatest Russian portraitists. |
| May 3, 1848 - Victor Vasnetsov, a Russian painter. |
| May 19, 1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, a Russian painter,
an author of religious pictures and character portraits. |
| May 5, 1871 - Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, a Russian
graver and painter. She has begun revival of an original engraving
on wood. |
| May 8, 1899 - Alexey Dejneka, a Russian painter,
the graphic artist, the sculptor. |
| May 11, 1904 - Salvador Daly, a Spanish painter,
an outstanding representative of surrealism. |
