Raya Yotova: 80 books

Boel mostly followed the style of his teacher Jan Fyt, especially in his smaller compositions, including rabbits or several birds outdoors. His compositions differ from Jan Fyt's works in their restraint and smoother and more controlled paint handling. His palette also differs from that of Fit in...

Like many of the great Chinese artists, Lu Ji also copied paintings by ancient masters from the Tang and Sun, who had the opportunity to study in the Emperor's collection. He studied the art of imaging birds of his contemporaries, Bian Jinghao, and Lin Liang. The Flowers and Birds pictures created...

Jin Nong was born in 1687 in Hangzhou. He became famous as a painter and calligrapher while living as a childless widow in Yangzhou only after he was fifty years old. His paintings of "mei" blossoms were particularly sought after there. He belonged to The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Jin...

Hendrick de Clerck was a typical representative of Flemish Manierism from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Although he worked at the border of two eras and two styles in Flemish art - those of Mannerism and Baroque - de Clerck until the end of his career remained faithful to the stylistic of...

Jacob Jordaens is a completely distinct Flemish artist who, unlike most of his compatriot artists from his era, has never taken trips to Europe, and especially to Italy, to study the experience of foreign artists. He was born and spent his entire life in Antwerp, where he created his glory as an unsurpassed...

The paintings of Labille-Guiard and Vigée-Le Brun are often compared by critics, with Vigée-Le Brun usually receiving more favorable reviews. Labille-Guard's early masterpiece "Self-Portrait with Two Students" is influenced by the style of Vigée-Le Brun. Labille-Guiard's works of art...

Frans Snyders was enrolled as a student of Pieter Brueghel the Younger in 1593, then learned from Hendrick van Balen, who was the first master of Anthony van Dyck. Snyders became master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1602. Snyders traveled to Italy in 1608-9, where he first lived in Rome. Subsequently,...

Jan van Scorel was a Flemish artist from the northern part of the Netherlands who is one of the leading figures of the romanticism movement in the Flemish Renaissance painting. Undoubtedly, his great style and technique were influenced by the famous Italian masters of the epoch, whose work he was...

Frans Francken (also named Francken II or Frans Francken the Younger) was a prominent painter of the big family unit of artists. He was from in Antwerp. His father was Frans Francken the Elder named Frans Francken I who was a trainee of city’s foremost artist Frans Floris, one of the most famous...

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653) is supposed the most important Italian painter of her time of the Baroque. She was mainly predisposed in her premature paintings by her father, Orazio Gentileschi who was in addition her mentor and took over his fondness for the correctness in elements and the sentimentality...

Denis van Alsloot is a transient figure in 17th-century Flemish art, one of the artists of the Sonian Forest School, which set the foundations of the Flemish landscape. He was born and made a career in Brussels, where he also received his education as an artist. His father was probably also an artist,...

His work did not belong to either the Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. The historical painting that Paris Salon appreciated as the artist's highest calling did not interest him. Instead, he claimed that the only possible source of live art was the artist's own experience. He and Jean-Francois Millet...

Rembrandt van Rhein is considered one of the greatest artists in the history of art and the most significant painter and etcher in Dutch art history. Rembrandt never went abroad but was significantly influenced by the work of Italian masters and Dutch artists who studied in Italy. Having achieved...

Frans Floris was a Flemish artist from Antwerp, a representative of the Northern Renaissance, and especially the movement in called Romanism. He comes from an old artistic family and his brothers have also been prominent artists. The ancestors of the artist were from Brussels, and they were known...