Famous artists Flashcards
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Who was Donatello (1386-1466)?
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- a renaissance artist
- italian
- famous for his artwork in bas relief, a type of shadow relief sculpture
2
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who was Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)?
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- italian painter
- born in florence like donatello
3
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who was Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)?
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- skilled in many subjects: Artict, inventor, mathematitian, musician…
- the epitome of the renaissance period
- famous artworks:
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Vitruvian Man…
4
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who was Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)?
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- italian renaissance artist
5
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who was Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926)?
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- a founder of French Impressionist painting
- famous paintings:
Bridge over a pond of water lillies
Impression, Sunrise…
6
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who was Henry Rousseau (1844-1910)?
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- french post-impressionist painter
- his best paintings depict jungle screnes eventhough he never left france and therefore never saw a jungle
7
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who was Henri Matisse (1869-1954)?
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- french painter, sculptor, printmaker and draughtsman
- known alongside Picasso & Marcel Duchamp as the 3 artists who contributed to the revolutionary developments of plastic arts in the ealy 1900s
8
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who was Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)?
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- spanish painter, sculptor and draughtsman
- spent most of his life in france
9
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who was Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)?
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- dutch post-impressionist artist
- his works carried a lot of influence on 20th century art due to their portrayal of colours and emotions
- famous artworks:
The Starry Night
10
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who was Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)?
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- spanish (catalan) surrealist painter
