Paintings history

Auguste Toulmouche 1829-1890 Frankrijk

Gustave Dore (1832-1883) created the most popular illustrations and engravings in history. He reminds me of the top character actors of all time—you know their work, but you don't know their names. Gustave Dore was the most famous living artist in the world during his lifetime.

Ramon “Richie” Lerma, director of Salcedo Auctions, was told he was inspecting photographs of a boceto of the “Spoliarium”—Juan Luna’s most celebrated, larger-than-life painting currently on display at the National Museum. A boceto, he explained to reporters, is a “prelude or study,” like a first draft for writers, of what a painter plans to execute…

Probably on this day in 1483, Raphael Sanzio, one of the greatest Renaissance masters was born. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplato

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wiped out Pompeii in a suffocating cloud of ash, but, as historian Daisy Dunn explores, the buildings and remains buried beneath the debris provide a remarkable window into ancient Roman life

By Rashi Paul UG3 Roll-10 The nude human form of both male and female varieties featured commonly in the Greco-Roman artwork of the classical a…