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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Ceschin, Livio

Italian

Italian, born 1962

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Cesi, Bartolomeo

Italian

Bolognese, 1556 - 1629

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Cestmir Kafka

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Cesura, Pompeo

Italian

Italian, died 1571

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Cevedra B. Sheldon

Cezanne, Paul

Cezanne, Paul

French

French, 1839 - 1906

Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, UK also siz-AN, US also say-ZAHN; French: [pɔl sezan]; Occitan: Pau Cesana; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism. While his early works were influenced by Romanticism—such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house—and Realism, Cézanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Cézanne strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic colour space and colour modulation principles. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his...

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C. F. Murphy Associates

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C. Francesco Antommarchi

Italian

1780 - 1838

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C.F.X. Gastel

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Chabot, Lucille

American

American, 1908 - 2005

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Chadwick, Charles Wesley

American

American, 1861 - 1940

Samuel Chadwick (1860–1932) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister. He served as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, 1918–1919.

Chadwick, Francis Brooks

Chadwick, Francis Brooks

American

American, 1850 - 1943

Francis Brooks Chadwick (January 1, 1850–1942/43), was an American painter active in France. He was born in Boston and studied at Harvard, and to pursue his interest in art he attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He was friends with the painter John Singer Sargent and travelled with him to Haarlem in 1880. The following year he married the Swedish painter Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick and they settled in Grez-sur-Loing, where he remained the rest of his life, though the couple travelled to other summer art colonies on vacation. They had three children including Louise Read Chadwick, wife of Squadron Leader Marcel Courmes He is known for scenes of Grez.