Great Artists: Velazquez
The Spanish painter ,Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, was the most acclaimed artist in the court of Spain’s King Philip IV during the Spanish Golden Age.
Read MoreThe Spanish painter ,Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, was the most acclaimed artist in the court of Spain’s King Philip IV during the Spanish Golden Age.
Read MoreMark Rothko was an American abstract impressionist like Jackson Pollock and regarded pop artists like Andy Warhol as “charlatans and young opportunists”
Read MoreJackson Pollack was born Paul Jackson Pollock in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His father was a travelling surveyor and moved around on government jobs which took Pollock around the western United States. For a while he lived in Echo Park in Los Angeles.
Read MoreWayne and Holmes counties in Ohio have the United States’ densest concentration of Amish. The Amish are a group of dissenting Christians who grew out of the Anabaptist movement of Germany and Switzerland.
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. Trained in Florence as a painter and sculptor Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions.
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