Paul Delaroche
Paul Delaroche became famous in Europe for his melodramatic scenes that often portrayed subjects from English and French history.
Paul Delaroche became famous in Europe for his melodramatic scenes that often portrayed subjects from English and French history.
In 1972, Hreinn Fridfinnsson created gates for the South Wind at a lonely spot on the southern coast of Iceland. He constructed them in such a manner that the South Wind could open the leaves of the gates. On one rainy day, when he had just finished constructing the gates and was taking a photograph of them, the wind blew from the north; the leaves remained closed and the artist never again returned to that place.
Adolfo Farsari was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. He was one of the many foreign and Japanese commercial photographers who operated in Yokohama from the 1860s to the 1880s.
Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist, and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
The Sleeping Hermaphroditus is an ancient marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size. In 1620, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted the mattress upon which the statue now lies.
Félix González-Torres was an artist.
Heinrich Harder was a German artist who illustrated prehistoric animals.
Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting more than 14 meters high and about 40 meters in diameter. From an observation gallery in the centre of the room the cylindrical perspective creates the illusion that the viewer is on a high sand dune overlooking the sea, beaches and village of Scheveningen in the late 19th century.
William Klein has always colored outside the lines. With forays into experimental photography, fashion photography at Vogue, and later, film, he had few preconceived notions about the art forms, and did not care to aspire to others’ norms - his methods were mostly improvised. Trained as a painter, Klein worked briefly in Fernand Léger’s Paris studio after serving in World War II, and never received professional photographic instruction.
Atanas Sutkus was a Lithuanian photographer who shot everyday people in a time when Communist propaganda was the ruling style.