French Rococo Era Painter, 1685-1766  Related Paintings of Jjean-Marc nattier :. | Madame Henriette de France as a Vestal Virgin | elisabeth-Alexandrine de Bourbon-Conde, Mademoiselle de Sens | The Artist and his Family | Portrait of Madame Marie-Henriette-Berthelet de Pleuneuf | Marie-Anne de Nesle, Marquise de La Tournelle, Duchesse de Chateauroux |
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Johann Heinrich Roos
German Baroque Era Painter, 1631-1685 was a German Baroque era painter and etcher. His works are presented in various art museums worldwide.
st ambrose
Milan; feast day December 7) Bishop of Milan. Raised in Rome, he became a Roman provincial governor. As a compromise candidate, he was unexpectedly elevated from unbaptized layman to bishop of Milan in 374. He established the medieval concept of the Christian emperor as subject to episcopal advice and censure when he forced the emperor Theodosius to seek forgiveness from the bishop, and he opposed tolerance for adherents of Arianism. He wrote theological treatises influenced by Greek philosophy, including On the Holy Spirit and On the Duties of Ministers, as well as a series of hymns. His brilliant sermons and personal example converted St. Augustine.
John Ruskin
English Romantic Writer and Painter, 1819-1900 English art critic. Born into a wealthy family, Ruskin was largely educated at home. He was a gifted painter, but the best of his talent went into his writing. His multivolume Modern Painters (1843 C 60), planned as a defense of painter J.M.W. Turner, expanded to become a general survey of art. In Turner he saw "truth to nature" in landscape painting, and he went on to find the same truthfulness in Gothic architecture. His other writings include The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and The Stones of Venice (1851 C 53). He was also a defender of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1869 he was elected Oxford's first Slade professor of fine art; he resigned in 1879 after James McNeill Whistler won a libel suit against him.