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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
Ultimate Art Quiz
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Artists, Painters, & Architects
Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?
"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Who Painted the Most Expensive Paintings in the World?
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Aerial view of Florence (Firenze), Italy from the campanile of the Duomo, with the gigantic dome (designed by Filippo Brunelleschi) in the foreground. Unidentifiable tourists are visible on top of the dome, which provide a measure of the building s scale.
25 Famous Paintings to See the Next Time You’re in Florence
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Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art
Painting palette with oil paints and brushes. Rainbow colored paints, arts and entertainment
Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies
Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel
Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries
Sculpture of woman before restoration (left) and after restoration on the exterior of an office building in Palencia, Spain. (art restoration)
5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong
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Just How Many Oceans Are There?
Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.
Holi: Festival of Colors
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around
Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.
U.S. Death Toll During Major Events
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
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7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?

Gavin Hamilton: Facts & Related Content

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Born 1723 • Scotland
Died January 4, 1798 (aged 75) • Rome • Italy
Movement / Style Neoclassical art
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Benjamin West
Benjamin West
American painter
Self-portrait, painting on canvas by Angelica Kauffmann; in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Angelica Kauffmann
Swiss painter
Landing of Columbus
John Vanderlyn
American painter
Mengs, Anton Raphael: Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano
Anton Raphael Mengs
Bohemian painter
François Gérard: Entry of Henry IV into the City of Paris, 22 March 1594
François Gérard
French painter
Asmus Jacob Carstens
German painter
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
German painter
Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo: Susannah and the Elders
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian painter
David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
Duncan Grant
British painter
Sir David Wilkie.
Sir David Wilkie
British painter
Raeburn, Henry
Sir Henry Raeburn
Scottish painter
John Smibert
American painter
Allan Ramsay
Scottish painter
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
British artist
Joseph Severn
artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist

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