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76Pre-Raphaelite Models - The Artists Muse
They were the WAGS of their day, the supermodels and catwalk queens of the nineteenth century. These demure, elegant women with their tumbling hair, elegant necks and doe eyes defined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style. Rossetti, Burne-Jones, William Hunt, Waterhouse and Millais all immortalised them on canvass in their tragic tales.
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86Renaissance Art and Artists - Famous Female painters
The Renaissance, the age of Enlightenment, remembered for its famous painters and sculptors. The period from 1400 to 1650 is populated with a whole host of famous men but there were also a group of talented female painters who also contributed to the age.
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92Female Renaissance Artist -Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola, 1532 - 1625 was one of the leading female artists of the Renaissance period, her success made it acceptable for women of that time to became practicing artists.
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86Renaissance Paints - How they made pigments
If you look at any masterpieces of the great Renaissance painters, they have a quality that seems linked directly to the landscape. This would have something to do with how their pigments were made . Unlike...
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76Lady Dada - Hannah Hoch, Female Artist
Born Joannes Hoch in 1889, Gotha in Germany, Hoch went on to become a leading female artists within the Dadaist movement, inventing Photomontage as an artform and defying social convention in 1920's - 30's Germany.
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77Surrealism - Joseph Cornell
Self-taught American Surrealist artist, Joseph Cornell produced endearing and captivating mini-worlds in his series of assemblage boxes, using found objects from junk shops and street corners.
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84Female Artist - Gwen John
Born Gwendolen Mary John, 1876 , Gwen John rose to be one of the leading Female painters of her generation. Living an unconventional lifestyle, she produced some stunningly sensitive works.
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76Rococo Portrait Painter - Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera was one of the more commercially successful and accomplished female artist during the 18th century, Rococo period. As a portrait painter and pastellist, she developed the technique of painting miniatures in tempera on ivory and was...
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73Dada - A hundred years of Counter Culture
Dada, an art movement created out of the fighting of the First World War, the begining of the Counter culture and anti-art movements.
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79Canaletto - Postcards from Italy
Canaletto was one of the greatest landscape and cityscape Italian painters from the Rococo period. His work demonstrates a deftness of touch and understanding of the construction and make up of the urban...
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