Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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CA Painter

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Capaldo, Ernest

American

American, born Italy, 1872 - 1942

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Caparn, Rhys

American

American, 1909 - 1997

Rhys Caparn (1909–1997) was an American sculptor known for her animal, landscape, and architectural subjects. Her works were mostly abstract but based on natural forms. In many of them she employed free lines and used a restrained style that nonetheless conveyed what critics saw as an emotional charge. In the animal sculptures for which she became best known, she achieved what a critic called "a graceful curvilinear balance." Another critic put this aspect of her style in terms of the arch of a cat's back in one of her pieces: "A cat's arched back is a pleasingly rounded shape and well balanced on the foundation of paws. But it is still a cat's back, embodying a cat's peculiar physical response to fear or affection." Her foundational influences included an ancient Greek statue and the abstract works of Constantin Brancusi. From her most prominent instructor, Alexander Archipenko, she said she learned to seek out the underlying ideal in a natural form, the point at which "form and idea become one." Her works were mostly small and almost all made by modeling. She received her training in Paris and New York. With the support of her parents and two wealthy widows, she was able to devote...

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Cape Ann Historical Museum

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Capellan, Antonio

Italian

Italian, born c. 1740

Antonio Capellan (c. 1740 in Venice – 1793 in Rome) was an Italian engraver, active in a Neoclassical style. He trained with Joseph Wagner. Capellan is best known for making engraved copies of masterworks of the Italian Renaissance found in private collections, which were published in Gavin Hamilton's work, Schola Italica Picturae. He also engraved a series of portraits of cardinals titled "Calcographia R.C.A. apud Pedem Marmoreum". In 1759, he engraved portraits of Michelangelo and Giorgio Vasari for a volume of the life of Vasari, curated by Bottari.

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Capelli, Giacinto

American

American, active c. 1935

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Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna

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Capitelli, Bernardino

Italian

Italian, 1589 - 1639

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Capo di Monte Factory

Italian

Capogrossi, Giuseppe

Capogrossi, Giuseppe

Italian

Italian, 1900 - 1972

Giuseppe Capogrossi (7 March 1900 – 9 October 1972) was an Italian painter.

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Caporaso, Angelica

Argentinean

Argentinean, born 1928

The Midland Group was an organisation that presented new art in Nottingham and the East Midlands between 1943 and 1987.

Capová, Hana

Capová, Hana

Czech

Czech, born 1956

Jan Čižinský (born 22 April 1978) is a Czech teacher and politician who has been serving as the mayor of Prague 7 since November 2014 and Member of the Prague City Assembly since October 2014. Čižinský is a former leader of Prague Together association and former member of KDU-ČSL.