Nicolai Abildgaard
1743-1809 Romanticism,Danish,Danish painter, designer and architect. His paintings reveal both Neo-classical and Romantic interests and include history paintings as well as literary and mythological works. The variety of his subject-matter reflects his wide learning, a feature further evidenced by the broad range of his creative output. In addition to painting, he produced decorative work, sculpture and furniture designs, as well as being engaged as an architect. Related Paintings of Nicolai Abildgaard :. | Die Wurfelspieler | Farmhouse at Le Pouldu | Thoughts of the Past | master crewe as henry | Portrat des Giuseppe Roberti. | Related Artists: George Edmund ButlerBritish, 1870-1936 gottfrid kallsteniusseated male model, 1887-88.
royal academy of fine arts marin mersenneFrench mathematician,philosopher and theorist. One of the leading French thinkers of the 17th century, he lived in Paris from 1619 as a Jesuit priest. His work is central to the academic and scientific movements of his time, and a major part of it is devoted to music. On the basis of practical experiment and observations, he made important discoveries concerning the nature and behaviour of sound, which are the foundation of the science of acoustics in later times. He also wrote on the theory and practice of music. His principal musical treatise is the Harmonie universelle
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