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3 days ago · The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists. Only around eight major works— The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin ...
2 days ago · This is an incomplete list of paintings and other works by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. According to the legend, Van Gogh sold only one painting, The Red Vineyard, bought for 400 francs by the painter and art collector Anna Boch.
4 days ago · The Musée Matisse in Nice, a municipal museum, has one of the world's largest collections of Matisse's works, tracing his artistic beginnings and his evolution through to his last works.
Jul 4, 2024 · Recently published a comprehensive collection of Franck Moore's work available to see in local libraries. Franck Moore was a very prolific local artist. Born in 1913, he trained at the Royal College of Art. He lived in Redbourn from 1955 to 1981.
Jun 25, 2024 · Rabindranath Tagore, the revered Bengali poet and polymath, left an enduring legacy through his profound literary works and became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature.
Jun 20, 2024 · William Wordsworth, English poet who was a central figure in the English Romantic revolution in poetry. He was especially known for Lyrical Ballads (1798), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Learn more about Wordsworth’s life and career, including his other notable books.
Jun 28, 2024 · In full: Ernest Miller Hemingway. Born: July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S. Died: July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho (aged 61) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1954) Pulitzer Prize (1953) Notable Works: “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” “A Farewell to Arms” “A Moveable Feast” “Across the River and Into the Trees” “Death in the Afternoon”
