History Web Booklet
This is intended to be an art history document to be used on the
Internet. The unique feature of this is that there are web links to
the artists' work that are in the collection of the Detroit Institute
of Arts.
The method is to give the name of the artist, a few written facts, and
then a link to the photo of the artist's work at the DIA, and then a
link to Wikipedia's article on the artist. The Wikipedia link will
lead to more information about the artist, plus photos of many of his
or her works of art.
If you are unfamiliar with using links, just use the mouse to click on
the info with the blue underlines. There is a section towards the end
of the document which includes prominent artists whose work is not
included in the DIA collection, with a Wikipedia link. This should
make it more inclusive as an art history document.
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Ancient Art (3500 B.C. up to 500 A.D.)
Ancient Near East. Conical earthenware bowl with leopards painted on
it. 3000 B.C. to 3500 B.C.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Statue of Gudea. Ruler of Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
Mesopotamian. Circa 2122 B.C. Map of Lagash below.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Egyptian. Statue of High Priest. c. 1290 B.C.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Egyptian. Papyrus from Book of Dead. c. 350 B.C.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Assyrian. Here is the relief sculpture of Tiglath-Pileser III of
Assyria (to the left). He and his successor Shalmaneser conquered the
Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722 B.C. That created the ten lost
tribes of Israel. Both Tiglath-Pileser and Shalmaneser are mentioned
in the Bible--in the Book of Kings.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Babylonian. This is an enamel brick dragon, symbol of Babylonian god
Marduk--from Ishtar gate in ancient Babylon. Marduk was patron god of
Babylon. From about 600 B.C.--about the era when the Jews were
captured and exiled to Babylon.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Here is the actual Ishtar Gate, with the original sculptures too, as
set up by archeologists in Berlin. Ishtar was a major
goddess of Babylon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Grecian Urn--310 B.C.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Bust of a Roman Empress as Isis--1st Century A.D.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Statue of young Nero before he was Roman Emperor-- circa 50 A.D.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Statue of Roman god Eros. Terracotta. Southern Italy. 2nd
Century B.C.
https://www.dia.org/art/
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Medieval Art (500-1400)
Anonymous sculptor in Italy. From the Dark Ages--circa 900 A.D.
Marble transenna. Enclosure stone to protect a shrine.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Chapel from a chateau in Lorraine, France. When the DIA building
was built, they constructed this chapel into the design. It was
shipped over from France.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Anonymous Italian sculptor. 1200s. Carved Ivory.
https://www.dia.org/art/
In the Middle Ages, Limoges in France was known for its enamel
artwork. Here are three examples in the DIA of
Limoges enamels from
the 1200s. Here is a pyx, what the priest puts
consecrated hosts in the sacristy (or the tabernacle). 1200s
https://www.dia.org/art/
Sacred book cover--I think this is for the altar missal. 1200s.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Bishops crozier head. 1200s
https://www.dia.org/art/
Reliquary for saint's bone--late 1200s
https://www.dia.org/art/
Madonna and Child. Anonymous. Wood carving. c. 1250 A.D.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Stained glass French c. 1250 AD
https://www.dia.org/art/
Anonymous Italian artist. Circa 1200s. Madonna, Child, angels, and
saints. Glasswork and gilt bronze.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Anonymous French artist. c. 1295. Painted on a manuscript.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Madonna glasswork. From reliquary. 1300s.
https://www.dia.org/art/
Nino Pisano. c. 1350. Italian sculptor. Madonna and child statue
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni del Biondo. Italian painter. 1300s. "Angel at Annunciation"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni Balduccio. Italian sculptor. circa 1334. Madonna and
Child statue
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dalmasio di Jacopo. Italian painter.--1370 Pre-Renaissance. "St.
John the Baptist."
https://www.dia.org/art/
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Renaissance Art (1400-1600)
Sassetta (1392-1450) Italian painter. Early Renaissance.
Worked in Siena.
"The Procession to Calvary":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Fra Angelico (1395-1455) Italian painter. Early Renaissance. Worked
in Florence. Dominican friar. Beatified.
"Annunciation Angel"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Benozzo Gozzoli. (1420-1497) Italian painter. Pupil of Fra Angelico.
Worked in Florence, Umbria, and Tuscany.
"Virgin and Child with Angels"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni di Paolo (1403-1483) Italian painter. Early
Renaissance.
Worked in Siena. 1447
"St. Catherine of Sienna Dictating Her Dialogues":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Madonna and Child. Anonymous. Stone--circa 1470
https://www.dia.org/art/
Lucca della Robbia (1400-1482) Older brother of Andrea della
Robbia. Worked in Florence, specializing in enamels.
"Madonna and Child":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525) Younger brother of Lucca. Worked
in Florence, specializing in enamels.
"Head of Youth"
: https://www.dia.org/art/
"Madonna with Child and Angels":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Carlo Crivelli (1430-1495) Italian painter. Early Renaissance.
Worked in Venice, then Padua.
"St. John the Evangelist":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"St. Peter the Apostle":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Perugino (1450-1523) from the Umbrian School. Raphael was his pupil.
"Madonna and Child":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) worked in Florence. Early
Renaissance. Michelangelo was his student.
"Young Man"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510) Italian painter, Was
from Florence.
The Resurrected Christ, c. 1480
https://www.dia.org/art/
Head of a Saint
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Michelangelo (1475-1564). Italian painter, sculptor, and
architect.
Worked in Florence and Rome. These drawings in the DIA are his
planning for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bernadino dei Conti. (1450-1528). Italian painter. Born in Pavia.
Little is known of him.
"Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni Battista Cima. (1459-1517) Italian painter. Worked in Venice.
"Annunciation to the Virgin":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Correggio (1489-1534) Italian painter. Foremost of the
Parma School.
"The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) Italian painter. Worked in Venice.
Teacher of Titian.
"Madonna and Child"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Titian (1480-1576) Italian painter. Venice. The most important
painter of the Venetian School during the late Renaissance.
"Man Holding a Flute":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tintoretto (1518-1594) Italian painter. Worked in
Venice. Studied under Titian.
The Dreams of Men
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Paolo Veronese (1528-1588). Italian painter. Born in Verona, but
worked mainly in Venice.
"Muse of Painting":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Parmigianino (1503-1540) from the Parma School. Mannersim. Worked
in Florence, Rome, Bologna.
"The Circumcision":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bronzino (1503-1572) Italian painter. Worked in Florence.
Mannerism.
"Eleonora of Toledo and her Son":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Constanza da Sommaia":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Flemish Renaissance in Belgium
Anonymous Flemish artists. Tapestry.
"St Paul Before Festus, King Herod Agrippa, and his Sister Bernice":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Jan van Eyck (1390-1441). Flemish.
"St. Jerome in his Study":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gerard David (1460-1523) Flemish--1490
"The Annunciation":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Painting by Master of St. Lucy Legend. Flemish
"Virgin of the Rose Garden"
Flemish 1480
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Master of Frankfort. (1460-1520) Flemish painter. Was active in Antwerp.
"The Virgin Enthroned":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
"The Wedding Dance" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(1525-1569). Flemish.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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German Renaissance
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) Worked in Saxony.
"St. Christopher":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) Worked in Nuremberg. The
DIA has a lot of his prints, in the form of woodcuts.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) Worked in Basel and England.
Portrait painter.
"A Woman":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Baroque Art (1600-1770)
Italian Baroque and Rococo
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Italian painter. Worked in Rome and
other cities.
"Martha and Mary Magdalene":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni Bernini (1598-1680) Italian sculptor. Worked in Rome.
Foremost sculptor of this period.
This Bernini work in the DIA is terra cotta, one a model
of his Chair of St. Peter in the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
"Triton with Sea Serpent":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Triton with Sea Shell":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Model for Chair if St. Peter" in the Vatican:
https://www.dia.org/art/
Pope Clement IX (attributed to Bernini)
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alessandro Algardi (1597-1654) Italian sculptor. Rival to Bernini.
Worked in Rome.
"St. Peter":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Domenico Feti. (1588-1623) Italian painter. Worked in Rome, Mantua,
and Venice.
"Jacob's Dream":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Angeluccio. 1640s. Italian painter. Little is known of him. Died young.
"Blind Man's Bluff":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Guido Reni (1575-1642)--Italian
Angel Appearing to Saint Jerome
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
Alessandro Turchi (1578-1649). Italian Painter. Worked in Verona
and Rome. This painting is entitled "Allegory of Hope":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.google.com/search?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639) Father of Italian painter Artimesia.
Began work in Rome.
"Woman Playing a Violin":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Artimesia Gentileschi (1593-1656) Daughter of Italian painter
Orazio. Began work in Rome.
"Judith and Maidservant with Head of Holofernes":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) Italian painter.
"The Finding of Moses":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Guercino (1591-1666). Italian painter. Active in Rome and Bologna
"The Assumption of the Virgin":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Magnasco (1667-1749) Italian painter. Worked in Milan and Genoa.
"Satire of a Nobleman in Misery":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Guiseppe Crespi (1665-1747) Worked in Bologna.
"Jesuit Mission":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Panini (1691-1765) Italian painter. Worked in Rome. Did
landscapes, particularly his vistas of Rome.
"The Roman Forum":
https://www.dia.org/art/
“Interior of St. Peter’s”
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tiepolo (Giovanni Battista) (1696-1770) Italian. Venice. Rococo.
"Madonna and Child":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"St. Joseph and Christ Child":
https://www.dia.org/art/
“Immaculate Conception”
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727 – 1804) was an Italian painter
and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista
Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.
“The Women of Darius Invoking the Clemency of Alexander,” 1750/1753
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Flemish Baroque
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) Flemish painter who reestablished in
England. Studied under Rubens.
"A Family Group":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Flemish. He and Rembrandt were the
foremost painters of their time.
"The Meeting of David and Abigail":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Philippe, the Artist's Brother":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gysbrecht Leytens. (1586-1656) Flemish painter. Was known as a master
of winter landscapes.
"Winter Landscape":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Dutch Art
Rembrandt (1606-1669). Dutch painter. Mostly prints at the DIA.
"The Visitation" by Rembrandt (an oil painting)
https://www.dia.org/art/
Angel print by Rembrandt:
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) Dutch. Worked in Leiden.
Genre painting.
Print of "David Playing Harp Before Saul":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Roelandt Savery (1578-1639) Dutch painter. Worked in Haarlem,
Prague, and Utrecht.
"Mountainous Landscape with an Entrance to a Mine":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hendrick van der Burch. Dutch painter. c. 1650
“Game of Cards”
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Oyster Breakfast":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jacob van Geel. (1585-1638). Dutch painter. About 30 of his works
are known to be in existence.
"Landscape with the Plundering of a Coach":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jacob Duck (1600-1667). Dutch painter. Worked in Utrecht, Haarlem,
and the Hague. Known for painting everyday scenes.
"A Game of Skittles":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Frans Hals (1582-1666) Dutch. Worked in Haarlem. A lot of portrait work.
"Portrait of Henry Swalmius":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"A Woman":
https://www.dia.org/art/
attributed to Frans Hals
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jacob van Ruisdael (1629-1682) Dutch. Landscape
painter. Worked in Haarlem and Amsterdam.
"The Jewish Cemetery":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Landscape":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Joost Droochsloot (1585-1666) Dutch painter.
"A Village Festival":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gerard Ter Borch (1617-1681) Dutch. Some of his work is very much
like Vermeer.
"Man Reading a Letter":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"A Lady at Her Toilet":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Roelof van Vries (1630-1681) Dutch painter. Did work in Haarlem and
Amsterdam.
"Landscape with Carriage":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Leonaert Bramer. (1596-1674). Dutch painter. Worked in many cities in
the Low Countries, France, and Italy.
"Adoration of the Magi":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Emanuel de Witte (1617-1692) Dutch. Known for his interiors.
"Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Karel Dujardin (1622-1678). Dutch. Historical paintings.
"Return of Holy Family from Egypt":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Aelbert Cuyp (1630-1691) Dutch. A leading landscape painter.
"Landscape with Ruins of Rijnsburg Abbey":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jan Griffier the Elder. (1648-1718) Dutch painter.
"A Winter's Scene":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Spanish Art (1600-1850)
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) Spanish painter. Foremost
Spanish artist of his time.
"A Man":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bartolome Murillo (1617-1682) Spanish painter.
"The Flight into Egypt":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Antonio Gonzales Velazquez (1723-1794) Spanish painter.
"The Birth of the Virgin":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Spanish painter.
"Dona Amalia Bonells de Costa":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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French Art (1600s and 1700s)
Pierre Reymond (1513-1584) French enamellist.
French 1542
"Ecce Homo":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) French painter. Worked in Rome.
"Selene and Endymion":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Holy Family":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jean Watteau (1684-1721) French painter.
Print of "Les habite sont italiens":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Francois Boucher (1703-1770) French painter. Rococo.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Chardin (1699-1779) French painter. Still lifes.
"Still Life":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Still Life with a Dead Hare":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jean Fragonard (1732-1806) French painter. Rococo.
"The Goddess Minerva":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Shepherdess":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Claude Vernet. (1714-1789). French painter. Known for his seascapes.
"Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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English Art in 1700s
William Hogarth (1697-1764) English painter and also did satire
caricatures.
"Portrait of a Lady":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) English painter. Famous for his
portrait work. Painter of the Blue Boy.
"Lady Anne Hamilton":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) English painter. With Gainsborough,
also famous for his portraits.
"Crying Forfeits":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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American Art (1700s and 1800s)
There were four or so prominent American painters that I
know of in circa 1800. Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt
Peale, and John Singleton Copley.
Benjamin West (1738-1820) American painter. Moved to
England later.
"Lot Fleeing from Sodom":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). American painter. Came
from a family of painters. The one directly below is a huge
painting--takes up a big wall of the DIA.
"The Court of Death"
: https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) American painter. This
painting at the DIA is called Watson and the Shark--
"Watson and the Shark":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Here's some other Copley paintings at the DIA—
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) American painter.
Gilbert Stuart did the painting of George Washington that
appears on the one dollar bill.
"General Amasa Davis":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John Trumbull (1756-1843) American painter. Historical paintings.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John James Audubon (1785-1851) American painter. Painted birds
of America.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George Catlin (1796-1872) American painter. Paintings of the
American Indian.
"Chief Black Rock and Wife and Daughter":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thomas Cole (1801-1848) American painter.
Founder of the Hudson River School. Realism. Landscapes. Allegories.
Below are three works at the DIA by Thomas Cole. The first is a
drawing, the second two landscape
paintings. The DIA also has 2,000 drawings of Thomas Cole (I suspect
that the DIA is one of the main repositories for one end of Cole's work). I
first became aware of Thomas Cole at the DIA at a special exhibition
of four of his painting called The Voyages of Life. The link to
them is below.
"From the Top of Kaaterskill Falls":
https://www.dia.org/art/
The Voyages of Life were on loan for a short period from
the National Gallery in Washington D.C. They are an allegory of the
stages of life. They were in one room of the DIA, and had exclusive
space there. Here they are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Frederic Church (1826-1900) American painter. Hudson River School.
Landscapes.
"Syria by the Sea":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Cotopaxi":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) American painter. Luminist.
"The Trappers' Return":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Checkers Players":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"John Quincy Adams":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mathew Brady (1822-1896) American photographer. Famous for his
photos of the Civil War. This is a photo of Lewis Cass from 1857.
"Lewis Cass":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870) American painter.
"Lagoon of Guayaquil River in Equador":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) American painter.
"Girl and Laurel"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
James Whistler (1834-1903) American painter. Famous in his time.
"Nocturne in Black and Gold, or Falling Rocket":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Arrangement in Gray"--self portrait:
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Frederic Remington (1861-1909) American illustrator and sculptor
"Mountaineer":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) American sculptor. Created many
monuments. Beaux Art movement.
"Amor Caritas":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Abraham Lincoln":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) American painter.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Francis Davis Millet (1848-1912) American painter and sculptor.
Died on the Titanic.
"Reading the Story of Oenone":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American painter.
Leading portrait painter of his time.
"Madame Paul Poirson":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) American painter. Impressionist.
"Portrait of a Lady in Black":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Mrs. William Merritt Chase":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"My Little Daughter Dorothy":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Richard Emile Miller (1873-1943) American painter. Impressionist.
"Summer Reverie":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) American painter.
Impressionist. Paintings of women and children.
"In the Garden":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Alexander J. Cassatt":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Women Admiring Child":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dwight Tryon (1846-1918) American painter. Tonal landscapes.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thomas Dewing (1851-1938) American painter. One of the Ten American
Painters, so called. Taught as Art Students League.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) American photographer
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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French Art--Realism in the 1800s
Jean Houdon (1741-1828) French sculptor. Portrait sculptor.
Statue of "Robert Fulton"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Francois Rude. (1784-1855). French sculptor. This is original
plaster model of monument in Paris.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jean Ingres (1780-1867) French painter. Neoclassicist.
Drawing --
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Theodore Gericault (1781-1824) French painter. Neoclassicism to
Romanticism.
A print—
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Eugene Delacroix (1788-1863) French painter. Neoclassicist to
Romanticism.
"Portrait of Dr. Desmaisons":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Camille Corot (1796-1875) French painter. Neoclassicist and
Impressionist. Landscapes and portraits.
"Young Girl with Mandolin":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Gathering Fruit at Mortefontaine":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gustav Courbet (1819-1877) French painter.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Honore Daumier (1808-1879) French artist. Printmaking and
caricatures.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gustave Dore (1832-1883) French painter. Worked in wood
engraving also.
"Stream in Mountains at Dusk":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904) French painter. Mythology, historical,
and Orientalism.
"Solitude":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) French painter. Realism.
Below are the two paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau
at the DIA. The one immediately below, the Nut Gatherers won a
newspaper poll of the favorite painting in the DIA in the 1980s.
"The Nut Gatherers":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Here is the other Bouguereau at the DIA:
"Sisters on the Shore":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Rodin (1840-1917) French sculptor. Foremost sculptor of his time.
"Vase of the Titans":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Impressionism and Post-Expressionism
Edouard Manet (1832-1883) French Realist painter. On
the road to Impressionism.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) French painter.
Impressionist. .
"The White Pierrot":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Woman in an Armchair":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Claude Monet (1840-1926) French painter. Impressionist. :
"Gladioli":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) French painter. Impressionist.
Paintings, pastels, and sculptures. Did many works on ballet dancers.
Pastel drawing "Dancers":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pissarro (1830-1903) French painter. Impressionist.
"The Pond at Kew Gardens":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Path":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) French painter. Post-Impressionist.
Pointillism.
"View of Le Crotoy from Upstream":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter. Post-Impressionist.
Worked mostly in France.
"Self Portrait":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Portrait of Postman Roulin":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"The Diggers":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Bank of the Oise at Auvers":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) French painter. Post-Impressionist.
"Self Portrait":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) French painter.
Post-Impressionism—on the road to Fauvism and what is called “Modern
Art.”
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) French painter and print-maker.
Expressionist.
Print of "Le Divan Japonais":
https://www.dia.org/art/
Print of "At the Circus":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Norwegian painter. Expressionist
"Boy in Blue":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Other 19th Century Art
Alexandre Roslin (1718-1793). Swedish painter. Worked for aristocratic
families in Paris, Italy, and St. Petersburg
"Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, Saluting His Army on the Battlefield":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John Constable (1776-1837) English painter. Realist. Landscapes.
"The Glebe Farm":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pelagio Palagi (1775-1860) Italian painter. Realist.
"Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Henri Fuseli (1741-1825) Swiss painter. Spent much of his life
in Britain. Symbolic realist. "The Nightmare" at the DIA.
"The Nightmare":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905) German painter. Realist.
He was one of the two most prominent painters in Germany in
the last half of the 1800s.
"The Back Garden":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John Everett Millais (English,
1829-1896). While a student at the Royal
Academy in London, Millais co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Leisure Hours, 1864
John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alphonse Mucha (Czechoslovakian, 1860-1939)
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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20th Century Art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter. Worked in Paris.
"Woman Seated in an Armchair":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Fruit, Carafe and Glass":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French painter. For a while
studied under Bouguereau.
"The Window":
https://www.dia.org/art/
"Wild Poppies"
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) French painter and artist.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Max Ernst (1891-1976) German painter. Surrealist.
"Moonmad":
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Aristide Maillol (1861-1844) French sculptor.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Arm chair by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1957) American architect.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) Mexican muralist.
https://www.dia.org/art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Artwork from other Cultures
See this link for further information--
https://www.dia.org/art/
Indian Art
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Chinese Art
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Japanese Art
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Islamic Art
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Art of Oceania
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Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas
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Native American Art
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African Art
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African-American
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Prominent Artists in History Whose Work is not in the Detroit Art Institute
Art in the Dark Ages (400-950 A.D.)
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna in Italy circa 526 A.D.
Mosaics of Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Medieval Art (950-1400 A.D.)
Duccio (1255-1319). Italian painter. Born and worked in Siena.
Considered the Father of the Sienese School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cimabue (1240-1301). Italian painter. Worked in Florence. Teacher of
Giotto. Considered first great painter of the Proto-Renaissance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giotto (1266-1337). Italian painter. Worked in Florence.
Pre-Renaissance. Known for his contributions to perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Renaissance in Italy (1400-1600)
Donatello (1386-1466), Italian sculptor. From Florence. Also worked in Rome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Masaccio (1401-1428), Italian painter. Born in the Republic of Florence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1449). Italian painter. Carmelite priest.
Born in Florence. Studied under Masaccio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Verrocchio (1435-1488), Italian painter. Born in Florence, died in
Venice. Studied under Fra Filippo Lippi. His pupils were Leonardo da
Vinci and Perugino.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter. Born in the Republic
of Venice. Considered a Renaissance Man. "Mona Lisa," the "The Last
Supper," and "The Virgin of the Rocks" are his paintings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Raphael (1483 -1520). Italian painter. Born in Urbino and died in
Rome. With Michelangelo and Leonardo, considered the triumvirate of
artists of the High Renaissance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Giorgione (1477-1510), Italian painter. Studied under Giovanni
Bellini. Along with Bellini and Titian developed the Venetian School
of painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mantegna (1431-1506), Italian painter. Experiments in perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Renaissance in Germany, Holland, and Flanders (1400-1600)
Matthias Grunwald (1470-1528), German painter. Only ten paintings
survive. "Isenheim Altarpiece."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Rogier van der Weyden (1400-1464), early Flemish painter. Worked in Brussels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hans Memling (1430-1494), early Flemish painter. Worked in Brussels
and Bruges. Studied under Rogier van der Weyden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516), early Netherlandish painter. Lived in
present-day Holland all his life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Baroque Art (1600-1780)
El Greco (1541-1614), Greco-Spanish painter. Mannerism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), Dutch painter. Genre stylist. About 34
paintings of his are still in existence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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19th Century Art
Jacques Louis David (1748-1828), French painter. Neoclassicist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Joseph M. Turner (1775-1851), English painter. Romanticist,
landscape artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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20th Century Art
Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Spanish painter. Surrealism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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20th Century American Art
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), American painter. Abstract impressionist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mark Rothko (1903-1970), American painter. Minimalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), American painter. Realist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
M.S. Escher (1898-1972), Dutch graphic artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), American painter. Illustrator who
transformed into the Fine Arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Artists of Local Interest
Marshall Fredericks (1908-1998), American Sculptor. Studio in
Birmingham, Michigan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Carl Millis (1875-1955), Swedish sculptor. Taught and worked at the
Cranbrook Academy of Art. Much of his work is in southeast Michigan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
