Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

Falda, Giovanni Battista

Falda, Giovanni Battista

Italian

Italian, 1648 - 1678

Giovanni Battista Falda (Valduggia 7 December 1643–22 August 1678, Rome) was an Italian architect, engraver, and artist. He is known for his engravings of both contemporary and antique structures of Rome.

Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio

Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio

Italian

Italian, c. 1690 - c. 1770

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni (24 April 1689 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter and engraver, citizen of the Republic of Venice. He was born in Asolo, province of Treviso, and was active in Venice. He trained under a landscape painter named Antonio Luciani, and learned engraving with a burin from Egidio Sadeler, then Claude Mellan. He created a series of portraits of the Doges of Venice and procurators of St Mark and Knights of the Star of Gold. He engraved a series of paintings, portraits, and busts of Roman Emperors for Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder. Exiled from Venice in 1765, he moved to Rome, where his traces are lost.

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Faleti, Bartolomeo

Italian

Italian, active 1560 - 1570

Falger, Anton

Falger, Anton

German

German, 1791 - 1850 or after

Josef Alois Knittel (20 April 1814, Oberbach – 23 December 1875, Freiburg im Breisgau) was an Austrian-born German sculptor. On his mother's side, he was a nephew of the painter, Joseph Anton Koch; on his father's side, an uncle of Anna Stainer-Knittel. His sons, Gustav Adolf and Berthold Knittel also became sculptors.

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Falick Novick

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Falier, Giovanni

Italian

Venetian, active first half 16th century

Falkenstein, Claire

Falkenstein, Claire

American

American, 1908 - 1997

Claire Falkenstein (; July 22, 1908 – October 23, 1997) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures. Falkenstein was one of America's most experimental and productive 20th-century artists. Falkenstein relentlessly explored media, techniques, and processes with uncommon daring and intellectual rigor. Though she was respected among the burgeoning post–World War II art scene in Europe and the United States, her disregard for the commodification of art coupled with her peripatetic movement from one art metropolis to another made her an elusive figure. Falkenstein first worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, then in Paris and New York, and finally in Los Angeles. She was involved with art groups as radical as the Gutai Group in Japan and Un Art Autre in Paris and secured a lasting position in the vanguard, which she held until her death in 1997. An interest in Einstein's theories of the universe inspired Falkenstein to create sculptures from wire and fused glass that explored the concept of infinite space. Falkenstein's current reputation rests on her sculpture, and her work...

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Fallon, Michael

American

American, 1898 - 1977

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Falola Edun

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Family of Richard J. and Barbara S. Faletti

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Famin, Constant Alexandre

French

French, 1827 - 1888

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F. A. Morgan