Spanish Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1440-1507 Related Paintings of GALLEGO, Fernando :. | Detail of Christ Giving His Blessing | Madonna of the Catholic Kings sdg | pieter | Flagellation | Flagellation sg | Related Artists:
jean HuberSwiss Painter (b. 1721, Geneve, d. 1786, Bellevue) ,
Geneva1721-1786
Geneva1721-1786,Silhouettist, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His paternal ancestors were patrician Genevese merchant bankers. As a young man he soldiered at Kassel in Germany and in Italy, where he fought for Savoy in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). In 1752 he was elected to Geneva's Council of Two Hundred and served his native city as a magistrate. He had no formal artistic training, but from his youth he clipped out of paper or cards freehand profiles of a kind that later came to be called silhouettes.
BASAITI, MarcoItalian Painter, ca.1470-1530
Marco Basaiti (c. 1470 ?C 1530) was a Venetian painter and a rival of Giovanni Bellini. His best known works are Christ Praying in the Garden (1516) and the Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew.
Christ praying in the GardenThought to have originated in the Balkans, his date of birth and arrival in Venice are not known, but he began to paint actively around 1496. He is generally believed to have learned to paint in the workshops of Alvise Vivarini. Basaiti worked primarily with religious themes, but he also did portraits. Contrary to the trends of the time, he used very bright colours in rendering his religious subjects.
Vilh Marstrandpainted Kaptajnløjtnant Osvald Marstrand in 1850