Émile Michel

Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and Poussain of the French School, the Dutch landscape painters and Turner and Constable of England are just a few of the great landscapists who have left their indelible mark on the history of landscape and the...

Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569) Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations. D'abord dessinateur avant de devenir peintre, il peignit des thèmes religieux, comme la Tour de Babel, avec des couleurs extrêmement vives. Influencé par Jérôme Bosch, il s'attela à de vastes scènes complexes décrivant la vie paysanne et des allégories bibliques ou...

El espíritu, el carácter, la vida, la obra y el método de pintar de Rembrandt son un completo misterio. Lo que podemos adivinar de su naturaleza esencial proviene de sus pinturas y de incidentes triviales o trágicos de su infortunada existencia; su inclinación por la vida ostentosa lo obligó a declararse en bancarrota. Sus desgracias no son del todo comprensibles y su obra refleja ideas perturbadoras e impulsos contradictorios que emergen de...

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he painted large, complex scenes of peasant life and scripture or spiritual allegories, often with crowds of subjects performing a variety of acts, yet his scenes are unified with an informal...