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UID:painters-vincent-van-gogh-q5582
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18530330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18900730
DESCRIPTION:Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter 
 who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Wes
 tern art. In just over a decade he created about 2\,100 artworks\, includi
 ng around 860 oil paintings\, most of them in the last two years of his li
 fe. They include landscapes\, still lifes\, portraits and self-portraits\,
  and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic\, impulsive and expres
 sive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suic
 ide at age 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.\n\nMarch 30\, 
 1853 – July 29\, 1890\; died at 37.\nAlive at the same time as Albert Ei
 nstein\, Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Charles Darwin.\n
 \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh
SUMMARY:Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
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UID:painters-pablo-picasso-q5593
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18811025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730409
DESCRIPTION:Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent
  most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of 
 the 20th century\, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement\, the i
 nvention of constructed sculpture\, the co-invention of collage\, and for 
 the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his m
 ost famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and
  the anti-war painting Guernica (1937)\, a dramatic portrayal of the bombi
 ng of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil W
 ar. His career spanned more than 76 years\, from his late teens to his dea
 th in 1973.\n\nOctober 25\, 1881 – April 8\, 1973\; died at 91.\nAlive a
 t the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Leo Tolstoy\, Friedric
 h Nietzsche\, and Pope Francis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Pic
 asso
SUMMARY:Pablo Picasso · 1881–1973
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UID:painters-michelangelo-q5592
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14750315
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15640229
DESCRIPTION:Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni\, known mononymously
  as Michelangelo\, was an Italian sculptor\, painter\, architect\, and poe
 t of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was
  mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by mode
 ls from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Mi
 chelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas 
 define him as an archetypal Renaissance man\, along with his rival and eld
 er contemporary\, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving c
 orrespondence\, sketches\, and reminiscences\, Michelangelo is one of the 
 best-documented artists of the 16th century.\n\nMarch 15\, 1475 – Februa
 ry 28\, 1564\; died at 88.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, 
 Martin Luther\, Miguel de Cervantes\, Christopher Columbus\, and Niccolò 
 Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo
SUMMARY:Michelangelo · 1475–1564
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UID:painters-salvador-dali-q5577
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19040511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890124
DESCRIPTION:Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech\, Marquess of
  Dalí de Púbol\, known as Salvador Dalí\, was a Spanish surrealist arti
 st renowned for his technical skill\, precise draftsmanship\, and the stri
 king and bizarre images in his work.\n\nMay 11\, 1904 – January 23\, 198
 9\; died at 84.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\
 , Franz Kafka\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
SUMMARY:Salvador Dalí · 1904–1989
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UID:painters-rembrandt-q5598
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16060715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16700101
DESCRIPTION:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn\, known mononymously as Rembrand
 t\, was a Dutch Golden Age painter\, printmaker\, and draughtsman. He is g
 enerally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of W
 estern art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to abo
 ut three hundred paintings\, three hundred etchings\, and several hundred 
 drawings.\n\nJuly 15\, 1606 – 1669\; died at about 62.\nAlive at the sam
 e time as Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Molière\, Louis XIV of France\
 , and John Locke.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt
SUMMARY:Rembrandt · 1606–1669
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UID:painters-frida-kahlo-q5588
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19070706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540714
DESCRIPTION:Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter 
 known for her many portraits\, self-portraits\, and works inspired by the 
 nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture\
 , she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity\, 
 postcolonialism\, gender\, class\, and race in Mexican society. Her painti
 ngs often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fant
 asy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movemen
 t\, which sought to define a Mexican identity\, Kahlo has been described a
 s a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about he
 r experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream  hol
 ds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctione
 d\, at $54.7 million.\n\nJuly 6\, 1907 – July 13\, 1954\; died at 47.\nA
 live at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Franz Kafka\, Po
 pe Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Ka
 hlo
SUMMARY:Frida Kahlo · 1907–1954
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UID:painters-raphael-q5597
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14830406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15200417
DESCRIPTION:Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino\, now generally known in English as 
 Raphael\, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Hi
 s work is admired for its clarity of form\, ease of composition\, and visu
 al achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with L
 eonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo\, he forms the traditional trinity of gr
 eat masters of that period.\n\nApril 6\, 1483 – April 16\, 1520\; died a
 t 37.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Chris
 topher Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and Michelangelo.\n\nhttps://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael
SUMMARY:Raphael · 1483–1520
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UID:painters-albrecht-durer-q5580
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14710530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15280417
DESCRIPTION:Albrecht Dürer\, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duer
 er\, was a German painter\, printmaker\, and theorist of the German Renais
 sance. Born in Nuremberg\, Dürer established his reputation and influence
  across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He 
 was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time\, including Raph
 ael\, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci\, and from 1512 was patronize
 d by Emperor Maximilian I.\n\nMay 30\, 1471 – April 16\, 1528\; died at 
 56.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Christo
 pher Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and Michelangelo.\n\nhttps://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer
SUMMARY:Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
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UID:painters-francisco-goya-q5432
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17460330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18280417
DESCRIPTION:Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic pain
 ter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of 
 the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings\, drawings\, and eng
 ravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced importa
 nt 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last 
 of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He is widely regarded as 
 one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art.\n\nMarc
 h 30\, 1746 – April 16\, 1828\; died at 82.\nAlive at the same time as A
 braham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Ludwig van 
 Beethoven\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_
 Goya
SUMMARY:Francisco Goya · 1746–1828
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UID:painters-henri-matisse-q5589
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18691231
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19541104
DESCRIPTION:Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist\, known
  for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He
  was a draughtsman\, printmaker\, and sculptor\, but is known primarily as
  a painter.\n\nDecember 31\, 1869 – November 3\, 1954\; died at 84.\nAli
 ve at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo To
 lstoy\, and Pope Francis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
SUMMARY:Henri Matisse · 1869–1954
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UID:painters-andy-warhol-q5603
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19870223
DESCRIPTION:Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regard
 ed as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century\, W
 arhol's practice spanned various media\, including painting\, filmmaking\,
  photography\, publishing\, and performance art. A leading figure in the p
 op art movement\, his work explores the relationship between advertising\,
  consumerism\, mass media\, and celebrity culture. His embrace of mechanic
 al reproduction challenged traditional boundaries between high and low cul
 ture. He is also credited with popularizing the expression "15 minutes of 
 fame".\n\nAugust 6\, 1928 – February 22\, 1987\; died at 58.\nAlive at t
 he same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armst
 rong\, and George Orwell.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
SUMMARY:Andy Warhol · 1928–1987
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UID:painters-katsushika-hokusai-q5586
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17601031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18490511
DESCRIPTION:Katsushika Hokusai  was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo pe
 riod\, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thir
 ty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Ka
 nagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of por
 traiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader styl
 e of art that focused on landscapes\, plants\, and animals. His works had 
 a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wa
 ve of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.\n\nOct
 ober 31\, 1760 – May 10\, 1849\; died at 88.\nAlive at the same time as 
 Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Charles Darwin\, and Wolfgang 
 Amadeus Mozart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
SUMMARY:Katsushika Hokusai · 1760–1849
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UID:painters-peter-paul-rubens-q5599
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15770708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16400531
DESCRIPTION:Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is 
 considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. R
 ubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical
  and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emp
 hasised movement\, colour\, and sensuality\, which followed the immediate\
 , dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was 
 a painter producing altarpieces\, portraits\, landscapes\, and history pai
 ntings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific de
 signer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces
  for the publishers in Antwerp.\n\nJuly 8\, 1577 – May 30\, 1640\; died 
 at 62.\nAlive at the same time as William Shakespeare\, René Descartes\, 
 Blaise Pascal\, Elizabeth I of England\, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestr
 ina.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens
SUMMARY:Peter Paul Rubens · 1577–1640
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UID:painters-diego-velazquez-q297
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15990606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16600808
DESCRIPTION:Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque pa
 inter\, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Por
 tugal\, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of t
 he greatest artists in the history of Western art.\n\nJune 6\, 1599 – Au
 gust 7\, 1660\; died at 61.\nAlive at the same time as William Shakespeare
 \, Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Louis XIV of France\, and Miguel de Ce
 rvantes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez
SUMMARY:Diego Velázquez · 1599–1660
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UID:painters-bruce-lee-q16397
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19401127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730721
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist\, actor\,
  and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do\, a hybrid martial arts
  philosophy\, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting an
 d self-defense—as well as eclectic\, Zen Buddhist\, and Taoist philosoph
 ies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a career spanning Hong
  Kong and the United States\, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese 
 film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history o
 f cinema. Known for the five feature-length martial arts films that he sta
 rred in as an adult\, he is credited with helping to popularize martial ar
 ts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema.\n\nNovember 2
 7\, 1940 – July 20\, 1973\; died at 32.\nAlive at the same time as Barac
 k Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, and Gabriel Ga
 rcía Márquez.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
SUMMARY:Bruce Lee · 1940–1973
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UID:painters-claude-monet-q296
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18401114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19261206
DESCRIPTION:Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressi
 onism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism\, especially in his atte
 mpts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career\, he was t
 he most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy
  of expressing one's perceptions of nature\, especially as applied to plei
 n air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived fr
 om the title of his painting Impression\, Sunrise\, which was exhibited in
  1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition\, initiated by Monet and a num
 ber of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.\n\nNovember 14\
 , 1840 – December 5\, 1926\; died at 86.\nAlive at the same time as Adol
 f Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Ronald Reagan.\
 n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet
SUMMARY:Claude Monet · 1840–1926
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UID:painters-paul-cezanne-q35548
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18390119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19061023
DESCRIPTION:Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose wor
 k introduced new modes of representation\, influenced avant-garde artistic
  movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19
 th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.\n\nJanuary 19\, 18
 39 – October 22\, 1906\; died at 67.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hi
 tler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Frédéric Chopin.\
 n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne
SUMMARY:Paul Cézanne · 1839–1906
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UID:painters-paul-gauguin-q37693
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18480607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19030509
DESCRIPTION:Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter\, sculptor\, pr
 intmaker\, ceramist\, and writer\, whose work has been primarily associate
 d with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an infl
 uential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While on
 ly moderately successful during his lifetime\, Gauguin has since been reco
 gnized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were di
 stinct from Impressionism.\n\nJune 7\, 1848 – May 8\, 1903\; died at 54.
 \nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, L
 eo Tolstoy\, and Abraham Lincoln.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ga
 uguin
SUMMARY:Paul Gauguin · 1848–1903
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-jean-auguste-dominique-ingres-q23380
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17800829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18670115
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter
 . Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired
  to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romant
 ic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradi
 tion of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David\, it is his portraits\, bo
 th painted and drawn\, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His exp
 ressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of m
 odern art\, influencing Henri Matisse\, Pablo Picasso\, and other modernis
 ts.\n\nAugust 29\, 1780 – January 14\, 1867\; died at 86.\nAlive at the 
 same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Charles Darwin\, 
 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Auguste
 -Dominique_Ingres
SUMMARY:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1780–1867
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UID:painters-eugene-delacroix-q33477
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17980426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18630814
DESCRIPTION:Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist
  who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.\n\nApril 26
 \, 1798 – August 13\, 1863\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same time as Karl
  Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Charles Darwin\, and Ludwig van Be
 ethoven.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix
SUMMARY:Eugène Delacroix · 1798–1863
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UID:painters-edvard-munch-q41406
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18631212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440124
DESCRIPTION:Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream 
 has become one of the iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.\n
 \nDecember 12\, 1863 – January 23\, 1944\; died at 80.\nAlive at the sam
 e time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy\, and N
 eil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch
SUMMARY:Edvard Munch · 1863–1944
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UID:painters-jet-li-q159577
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19630426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DESCRIPTION:Jet Li Lianjie is a martial artist\, actor\, and philanthropist
 . With a career spanning more than forty years\, he is widely regarded as 
 one of the greatest Chinese film stars and most influential martial artist
 s in cinema history. Li's early work in Asia during the 1980s is credited 
 with introducing the Shaolin Temple to a global audience. During the 1990s
 \, his collaborations with filmmaker Tsui Hark spearheaded wushu represent
 ation in Hong Kong action cinema\, establishing him as its most prominent 
 practitioner. He simultaneously popularised the wuxia genre before transit
 ioning to Hollywood in the late 1990s. In the decade that followed\, his c
 rossover success brought global recognition and solidified his place along
 side Jackie Chan as one of the two biggest names in contemporary martial a
 rts films.\n\nBorn April 26\, 1963\; 63 today.\nAlive at the same time as 
 Barack Obama\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, Gabriel García Márquez\, 
 and Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li
SUMMARY:Jet Li · born 1963
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-jackson-pollock-q37571
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19120128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560812
DESCRIPTION:Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in
  the abstract expressionist movement\, he was noted for his "drip techniqu
 e" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surfac
 e\, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was ca
 lled all-over painting and action painting\, because Pollock covered the e
 ntire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint\, often in a fr
 enetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: so
 me praised the immediacy of the creation\, while others derided the random
  effects.\n\nJanuary 28\, 1912 – August 11\, 1956\; died at 44.\nAlive a
 t the same time as Donald Trump\, Albert Einstein\, Franz Kafka\, Pope Fra
 ncis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Polloc
 k
SUMMARY:Jackson Pollock · 1912–1956
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-johannes-vermeer-q41264
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16321001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16760101
DESCRIPTION:Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domesti
 c interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greate
 st painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime\, he was a modera
 tely successful provincial genre painter\, recognized in Delft and The Hag
 ue. He produced relatively few paintings\, primarily earning his living as
  an art dealer. He was not wealthy\; at his death\, his wife was left in d
 ebt.\n\n1632 – 1675\; died at about 42.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac
  Newton\, René Descartes\, Molière\, Louis XIV of France\, and John Lock
 e.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer
SUMMARY:Johannes Vermeer · 1632–1675
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UID:painters-caravaggio-q42207
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15711009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16110101
DESCRIPTION:Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio\, known mononymously as Carav
 aggio\, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of
  his artistic life. He began his apprenticeship in Milan in 1584\, and dur
 ing the final four years of his life\, he moved between Naples\, Malta\, a
 nd Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combini
 ng a realistic observation of the human state\, both physical and emotiona
 l\, with a dramatic use of lighting\, which had a formative influence on B
 aroque painting.\n\nOctober 9\, 1571 – 1610\; died at about 38.\nAlive a
 t the same time as William Shakespeare\, René Descartes\, Elizabeth I of 
 England\, Johannes Kepler\, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.\n\nhttps
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio
SUMMARY:Caravaggio · 1571–1610
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UID:painters-sandro-botticelli-q5669
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14450101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15110101
DESCRIPTION:Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi\, better known as Sandr
 o Botticelli or simply Botticelli\, was an Italian painter of the Early Re
 naissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th
  century\, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated 
 a reappraisal of his work. Since then\, his paintings have been seen to re
 present the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance
  painting\, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Rena
 issance period.\n\n1445 – 1510\; died at about 64.\nAlive at the same ti
 me as Leonardo da Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, Niccolò 
 Machiavelli\, and François Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandr
 o_Botticelli
SUMMARY:Sandro Botticelli · 1445–1510
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-pierre-auguste-renoir-q39931
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18410225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19191204
DESCRIPTION:Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist artist
 . In his depiction of feminine beauty\, Renoir has been described as "the 
 final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Wat
 teau."\n\nFebruary 25\, 1841 – December 3\, 1919\; died at 78.\nAlive at
  the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy
 \, and Abraham Lincoln.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Re
 noir
SUMMARY:Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-el-greco-q301
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15411001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16140408
DESCRIPTION:Doménikos Theotokópoulos\, most widely known as El Greco\, wa
 s a Greek painter\, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance\, re
 garded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a nickname
 \, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name i
 n Greek letters often adding the word Κρής\, which means "Cretan" in A
 ncient Greek.\n\nOctober 1\, 1541 – April 7\, 1614\; died at 72.\nAlive 
 at the same time as William Shakespeare\, René Descartes\, Elizabeth I of
  England\, Johannes Kepler\, and Jacques Cartier.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/El_Greco
SUMMARY:El Greco · 1541–1614
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UID:painters-titian-q47551
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14770101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15761007
DESCRIPTION:Tiziano Vecellio\, Latinized as Titianus\, hence known in Engli
 sh as Titian\, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important arti
 st of Renaissance Venetian painting\, he was born in Pieve di Cadore\, nea
 r Belluno.\n\n1477 – October 6\, 1576\; died at about 99.\nAlive at the 
 same time as William Shakespeare\, Leonardo da Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Chr
 istopher Columbus\, and Niccolò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Titian
SUMMARY:Titian · 1477–1576
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-giotto-q7814
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12660101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13370117
DESCRIPTION:Giotto di Bondone\, known mononymously as Giotto\, was an Itali
 an painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He wor
 ked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary\
 , the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani\, wrote that Giotto was "the 
 most sovereign master of painting in his time\, who drew all his figures a
 nd their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "tal
 ent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive 
 break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art 
 of painting as we know it today\, introducing the technique of drawing acc
 urately from life\, which had been neglected for more than two hundred yea
 rs".\n\n1266 – January 16\, 1337\; died at about 71.\nAlive at the same 
 time as Dante Alighieri\, Marco Polo\, Kublai Khan\, William of Ockham\, a
 nd Roger Bacon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto
SUMMARY:Giotto · 1266–1337
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-zaha-hadid-q47780
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19501031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160401
DESCRIPTION:Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi and British architect\, a
 rtist\, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architectur
 e of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad\, Iraq\, Hadi
 d studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Archit
 ectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an altern
 ative to traditional architectural drawing\, and influenced by Suprematism
  and the Russian avant-garde\, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and
  abstraction as a method to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experi
 ments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".\n\nOctober 31\
 , 1950 – March 31\, 2016\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same time as Barack
  Obama\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, Gabriel García Márquez\, and St
 ephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid
SUMMARY:Zaha Hadid · 1950–2016
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-jacques-louis-david-q83155
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17480830
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18251230
DESCRIPTION:Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical st
 yle\, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s\, h
 is cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from R
 ococo frivolity toward classical austerity\, severity\, and heightened fee
 ling\, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the A
 ncien Régime.\n\nAugust 30\, 1748 – December 29\, 1825\; died at 77.\nA
 live at the same time as Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Johann Wolfgan
 g von Goethe\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhttps://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David
SUMMARY:Jacques-Louis David · 1748–1825
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-hieronymus-bosch-q130531
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14500101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15160810
DESCRIPTION:Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of
  the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting scho
 ol. His work\, generally oil on oak wood\, mainly contains fantastic illus
 trations of religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime\, his w
 ork was collected in the Netherlands\, Austria\, and Spain\, and widely co
 pied\, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell.\n\n1450 
 – August 9\, 1516\; died at about 66.\nAlive at the same time as Leonard
 o da Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\,
  and François Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
SUMMARY:Hieronymus Bosch · 1450–1516
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-pieter-brueghel-the-elder-q43270
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15250101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15690920
DESCRIPTION:Pieter Bruegel the Elder was among the most significant artists
  of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting\, a painter and printmaker\, kn
 own for his landscapes and peasant scenes \; he was a pioneer in presentin
 g both types of subject as large paintings. In the 20th and 21st centuries
 \, Bruegel works including Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and The Hunte
 rs in the Snow (1565) have inspired artists in both the literary arts and 
 in cinema.\n\n1525 – September 19\, 1569\; died at about 44.\nAlive at t
 he same time as Martin Luther\, Miguel de Cervantes\, Nicolaus Copernicus\
 , Elizabeth I of England\, and Jacques Cartier.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder
SUMMARY:Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1525–1569
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-caspar-david-friedrich-q104884
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17740905
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18400508
DESCRIPTION:Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter\
 , generally considered the most important German artist of his generation\
 , whose often symbolic\, and anti-classical work\, conveys a subjective\, 
 emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set c
 ontemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies\, morning mists
 \, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray des
 cribed their presence\, in diminished perspective\, amid expansive landsca
 pes\, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze t
 owards their metaphysical dimension".\n\nSeptember 5\, 1774 – May 7\, 18
 40\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, 
 Leo Tolstoy\, Charles Darwin\, and Ludwig van Beethoven.\n\nhttps://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
SUMMARY:Caspar David Friedrich · 1774–1840
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-nicolas-poussin-q41554
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15940615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16651120
DESCRIPTION:Nicolas Poussin was a leading painter of the classical French B
 aroque style\, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of
  his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small
  group of Italian and French collectors. He returned to Paris for a brief 
 period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal
  Richelieu\, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional th
 emes. In his later years he gave growing prominence to the landscape in hi
 s paintings. His work is characterized by clarity\, logic\, and order\, an
 d favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained a major insp
 iration for such classically-oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David\, Jea
 n-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.\n\nJune 15\, 1594 – Novemb
 er 19\, 1665\; died at 71.\nAlive at the same time as William Shakespeare\
 , Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Louis XIV of France\, and Miguel de Cer
 vantes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin
SUMMARY:Nicolas Poussin · 1594–1665
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-giorgio-vasari-q128027
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15110809
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15740708
DESCRIPTION:Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter\, architect\,
  art historian\, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excel
 lent Painters\, Sculptors\, and Architects\, considered the ideological fo
 undation of Western art-historical writing\, and still much cited in moder
 n biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers\, includin
 g Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo\, although he is since regarded as in
 cluding many factual errors\, especially when covering artists from before
  he was born.\n\nAugust 9\, 1511 – July 7\, 1574\; died at 62.\nAlive at
  the same time as William Shakespeare\, Martin Luther\, Niccolò Machiavel
 li\, Nicolaus Copernicus\, and Francis Bacon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Giorgio_Vasari
SUMMARY:Giorgio Vasari · 1511–1574
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-j-m-w-turner-q159758
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17750423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18511220
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Mallord William Turner\, known as William Turner\, was a
 n English Romantic painter regarded as one of the greatest British painter
 s of the 19th century. His expressive renditions of light and atmosphere a
 nd bold use of colour in landscape painting inspired the early impressioni
 sts Monet and Pissarro.\n\nApril 23\, 1775 – December 19\, 1851\; died a
 t 76.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy
 \, Charles Darwin\, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/J._M._W._Turner
SUMMARY:J. M. W. Turner · 1775–1851
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-jan-van-eyck-q102272
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13900101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14410719
DESCRIPTION:Jan van Eyck was an early Netherlandish painter active in Bruge
 s who was one of the early innovators of what became known as early Nether
 landish painting\, and one of the supreme figures of the Early Northern Re
 naissance. Such was his legacy\, that he has been called "the inventor of 
 oil-painting" by Vasari\, Ernst Gombrich\, and others\, although this clai
 m is now considered an oversimplification.\n\n1390 – July 18\, 1441\; di
 ed at about 51.\nAlive at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenber
 g\, Geoffrey Chaucer\, Zheng He\, and Jan Hus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Jan_van_Eyck
SUMMARY:Jan van Eyck · 1390–1441
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-stephen-hillenburg-q318750
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19610821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181127
DESCRIPTION:Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was an American animator\, writer\
 , producer\, director\, voice actor\, and marine biology educator. He is b
 est known for creating the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePant
 s for Nickelodeon in 1999. The show has become the fourth longest-running 
 American animated series. He also provided the original voice of Patchy th
 e Pirate's pet\, Potty the Parrot.\n\nAugust 21\, 1961 – November 26\, 2
 018\; died at 57.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Pope Francis\,
  Neil Armstrong\, Gabriel García Márquez\, and Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hillenburg
SUMMARY:Stephen Hillenburg · 1961–2018
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-jacopo-tintoretto-q9319
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15181009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15940601
DESCRIPTION:Jacopo Robusti\, best known as Tintoretto\, was an Italian Rena
 issance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired an
 d criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldnes
 s of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il
  Furioso. His work is characterised by muscular figures\, dramatic gesture
 s and bold use of perspective\, in the Mannerist style.\n\nOctober 9\, 151
 8 – May 31\, 1594\; died at 75.\nAlive at the same time as William Shake
 speare\, Martin Luther\, Nicolaus Copernicus\, Francis Bacon\, and Elizabe
 th I of England.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintoretto
SUMMARY:Jacopo Tintoretto · 1518–1594
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-anthony-van-dyck-q150679
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15990322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16411210
DESCRIPTION:Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist\, who became 
 the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherla
 nds and Italy.\n\nMarch 22\, 1599 – December 9\, 1641\; died at 42.\nAli
 ve at the same time as William Shakespeare\, René Descartes\, Blaise Pasc
 al\, Osman II\, and Miguel de Cervantes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Anthony_van_Dyck
SUMMARY:Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-william-hogarth-q171344
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16971110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17641027
DESCRIPTION:William Hogarth was an English painter\, engraver\, cartoonist\
 , and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-
 like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"\, and he is perhaps
  best known for his series A Harlot's Progress\, A Rake's Progress and Mar
 riage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical
  political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthia
 n".\n\nNovember 10\, 1697 – October 26\, 1764\; died at 66.\nAlive at th
 e same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, George Washingt
 on\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/William_Hogarth
SUMMARY:William Hogarth · 1697–1764
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-francisco-de-zurbaran-q209615
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15981107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16640828
DESCRIPTION:Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish Baroque painter. He is kno
 wn primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks\, nuns\, and mart
 yrs\, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Cara
 vaggio"\, owing to the forceful use of chiaroscuro\, in which he excelled.
 \n\nNovember 7\, 1598 – August 27\, 1664\; died at 65.\nAlive at the sam
 e time as William Shakespeare\, Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Louis XIV
  of France\, and Miguel de Cervantes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra
 ncisco_de_Zurbar%C3%A1n
SUMMARY:Francisco de Zurbarán · 1598–1664
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-bartolome-esteban-murillo-q192062
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16171231
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16830101
DESCRIPTION:Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Altho
 ugh he is best known for his religious works\, Murillo also produced a con
 siderable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These li
 vely realistic portraits of flower girls\, street urchins\, and beggars co
 nstitute an extensive record of the everyday life of his times. He also pa
 inted two self-portraits\, one in the Frick Collection portraying him in h
 is 30s\, and one in London's National Gallery portraying him about 20 year
 s later. In 2017–18\, the two museums held an exhibition of them.\n\nDec
 ember 31\, 1617 – 1682\; died at about 64.\nAlive at the same time as Is
 aac Newton\, René Descartes\, Molière\, Louis XIV of France\, and John L
 ocke.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo
SUMMARY:Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1617–1682
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-masaccio-q5811
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14011230
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14290101
DESCRIPTION:Masaccio\, born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone\, was a Flore
 ntine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Qua
 ttrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari\, Masacci
 o was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating
  nature\, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincin
 g sense of three-dimensionality. He employed nudes and foreshortenings in 
 his figures. This had seldom been done before him.\n\nDecember 30\, 1401 
 – 1428\; died at about 26.\nAlive at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Joha
 nnes Gutenberg\, Zheng He\, Jan Hus\, and Leon Battista Alberti.\n\nhttps:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaccio
SUMMARY:Masaccio · 1401–1428
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-paolo-veronese-q9440
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15280101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15880420
DESCRIPTION:Paolo Caliari\, known as Paolo Veronese\, was an Italian Renais
 sance painter based in Venice\, known for extremely large history painting
 s of religion and mythology\, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The F
 east in the House of Levi (1573). Included with Titian\, a generation olde
 r\, and Tintoretto\, a decade senior\, Veronese is one of the "great trio 
 that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" and the Late Renaissa
 nce in the 16th century. Known as a supreme colorist\, and after an early 
 period with Mannerism\, Paolo Veronese developed a naturalist style of pai
 nting\, influenced by Titian.\n\n1528 – April 19\, 1588\; died at about 
 60.\nAlive at the same time as William Shakespeare\, Martin Luther\, Nicol
 aus Copernicus\, Francis Bacon\, and Elizabeth I of England.\n\nhttps://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Veronese
SUMMARY:Paolo Veronese · 1528–1588
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-fra-angelico-q5664
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13870101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14550228
DESCRIPTION:John of Fiesole\, known posthumously as Fra Angelico or in Ital
 ian as Beato Angelico\, was an Italian Dominican friar and painter active 
 during the early Florentine Renaissance.\n\n1387 – February 27\, 1455\; 
 died at about 68.\nAlive at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenb
 erg\, Geoffrey Chaucer\, Zheng He\, and Jan Hus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Fra_Angelico
SUMMARY:Fra Angelico · 1387–1455
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-donato-bramante-q7793
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14430101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15150101
DESCRIPTION:Donato Bramante\, born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and als
 o known as Bramante Lazzari\, was an Italian architect and painter. He int
 roduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style t
 o Rome\, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of the d
 esign executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto marked the beginning of the 
 High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Pope Julius II appointed him to build
  a sanctuary over the spot where Peter was martyred.\n\n1443 – 1514\; di
 ed at about 71.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Martin Luth
 er\, Christopher Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and François Villon.\n
 \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donato_Bramante
SUMMARY:Donato Bramante · 1443–1514
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-banksy-q133600
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DESCRIPTION:Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist\, politica
 l activist\, and film director. He has never publicly confirmed his identi
 ty. Active since the 1990s\, his satirical street art and subversive epigr
 ams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencillin
 g technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on
  streets\, walls\, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of 
 the Bristol underground scene\, which involved collaborations between arti
 sts and musicians.\n\nBorn 1973\; 53 today.\nAlive at the same time as Bar
 ack Obama\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, Gabriel García Márquez\, and
  Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
SUMMARY:Banksy · born 1973
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-domenico-ghirlandaio-q191423
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14480611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14940121
DESCRIPTION:Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi\, professionally k
 nown as Domenico Ghirlandaio\, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in 
 Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the 
 Florentine Renaissance\, along with Verrocchio\, the Pollaiolo brothers an
 d Sandro Botticelli.\n\nJune 11\, 1448 – January 20\, 1494\; died at 45.
 \nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Christophe
 r Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and François Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Ghirlandaio
SUMMARY:Domenico Ghirlandaio · 1448–1494
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-phidias-q177302
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-04990101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04280101
DESCRIPTION:Phidias or Pheidias was an Ancient Greek sculptor\, painter\, a
 nd architect\, active in the 5th century BC. His Statue of Zeus at Olympia
  was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Phidias also designed 
 the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis\, namely the A
 thena Parthenos inside the Parthenon\, and the Athena Promachos\, a coloss
 al bronze which stood between it and the Propylaea\, a monumental gateway 
 that served as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. Phidias was the so
 n of Charmides of Athens. The ancients believed that his masters were Hegi
 as and Ageladas.\n\n500 BC – 430 BC\; died at about 69.\nAlive at the sa
 me time as Confucius\, The Buddha\, Sophocles\, Hippocrates\, and Thucydid
 es.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidias
SUMMARY:Phidias · 500–430 BC
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-thomas-gainsborough-q192720
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17270514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17880803
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Gainsborough was an English painter\, draughtsman and pr
 intmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting. Along with hi
 s rival Sir Joshua Reynolds\, he was one of the most important British art
 ists of the 18th century. He painted quickly\, and the works of his maturi
 ty are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a 
 prolific portrait painter\, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from 
 his landscapes. He is credited as the originator of the 18th-century Briti
 sh landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Acade
 my.\n\nMay 14\, 1727 – August 2\, 1788\; died at 61.\nAlive at the same 
 time as Napoleon\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Imm
 anuel Kant\, and Carl Linnaeus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ga
 insborough
SUMMARY:Thomas Gainsborough · 1727–1788
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-john-constable-q159297
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17760611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18370401
DESCRIPTION:John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic
  tradition. Born in Suffolk\, he is known principally for revolutionising 
 the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale\, the are
 a on the borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – no
 w known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of 
 affection. "I should paint my own places best"\, he wrote to his friend Jo
 hn Fisher in 1821\, "painting is but another word for feeling."\n\nJune 11
 \, 1776 – March 31\, 1837\; died at 60.\nAlive at the same time as Karl 
 Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, and
  Ludwig van Beethoven.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable
SUMMARY:John Constable · 1776–1837
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-hans-holbein-the-younger-q48319
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14970101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15431130
DESCRIPTION:Hans Holbein the Younger was a German painter and printmaker ac
 tive in Switzerland and England. He worked in a Northern Renaissance style
 \, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century.
  He also produced religious art\, satire\, and Reformation propaganda\, an
 d he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is 
 called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the E
 lder\, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.\n\n1497 – Nove
 mber 29\, 1543\; died at about 46.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da 
 Vinci\, Martin Luther\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, Ferdinand Magellan\, and Mi
 chel de Montaigne.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Young
 er
SUMMARY:Hans Holbein the Younger · 1497–1543
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-giovanni-antonio-canal-q182664
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16971007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17690101
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Antonio Canal\, commonly known as Canaletto\, was an I
 talian painter from the Republic of Venice\, considered an important membe
 r of the 18th-century Venetian school.\n\nOctober 7\, 1697 – 1768\; died
  at about 70.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Wolfgang vo
 n Goethe\, George Washington\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, and Immanuel Kant
 .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto
SUMMARY:Giovanni Antonio Canal · 1697–1768
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-andrei-rublev-q838
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13641231
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14281027
DESCRIPTION:Andrei Rublev was a Russian artist considered to be one of the 
 greatest medieval Russian painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescoe
 s. He is revered as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church\, and his feast
  day is 29 January.\n\nc. 1360 – October 26\, 1428\; died at about 68.\n
 Alive at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenberg\, Geoffrey Chau
 cer\, Ibn Battuta\, and Jan Hus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_R
 ublev
SUMMARY:Andrei Rublev · c. 1360–1428
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-jean-antoine-watteau-q183221
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16841010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17220101
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose
  brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement\, as 
 seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning B
 aroque style\, shifting it to the less severe\, more naturalistic\, less f
 ormally classical\, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre o
 f fêtes galantes\, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm\, suffused with a 
 theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world 
 of Italian comedy and ballet.\n\nOctober 10\, 1684 – 1721\; died at abou
 t 36.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Vo
 ltaire\, Benjamin Franklin\, and John Locke.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Antoine_Watteau
SUMMARY:Jean-Antoine Watteau · 1684–1721
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UID:painters-giovanni-battista-tiepolo-q186202
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16960305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17700328
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo\, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo\
 , was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who pa
 inted in the Rococo style\, considered an important member of the 18th-cen
 tury Venetian school. He was prolific\, and worked not only in Italy\, but
  also in Germany and Spain.\n\nMarch 5\, 1696 – March 27\, 1770\; died a
 t 74.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 \, George Washington\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhtt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo
SUMMARY:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
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UID:painters-duccio-di-buoninsegna-q15792
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12550101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13190101
DESCRIPTION:Duccio di Buoninsegna\, commonly known as just Duccio\, was an 
 Italian painter active in Siena\, Tuscany\, in the late 13th and early 14t
 h century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important wor
 ks in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is considere
 d one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages\, and is credite
 d with creating the painting styles of Trecento Gothic style and the Siene
 se school.\n\n1255 – 1318\; died at about 63.\nAlive at the same time as
  Dante Alighieri\, Marco Polo\, Thomas Aquinas\, Kublai Khan\, and William
  of Ockham.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duccio
SUMMARY:Duccio di Buoninsegna · 1255–1318
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-cimabue-q15790
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12400101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13030101
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Cimabue\, also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi
 \, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence.\n\n1240 
 – 1302\; died at about 62.\nAlive at the same time as Dante Alighieri\, 
 Marco Polo\, Thomas Aquinas\, Fibonacci\, and Kublai Khan.\n\nhttps://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Cimabue
SUMMARY:Cimabue · 1240–1302
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-rogier-van-der-weyden-q68631
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13990101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14640626
DESCRIPTION:Rogier van der Weyden\, initially Roger de la Pasture\, was an 
 early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religi
 ous triptychs\, altarpieces\, and commissioned single and diptych portrait
 s. He was highly successful in his lifetime\; his paintings were exported 
 to Italy and Spain\, and he received commissions from\, amongst others\, P
 hilip the Good\, Burgundian nobility\, and foreign aristocrats. By the lat
 ter half of the 15th century\, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity.
  However his fame lasted only until the 17th century\, and largely due to 
 changing taste\, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid-18th century. 
 His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the 200 years that followed\; tod
 ay he is known\, with Robert Campin and Van Eyck\, as the third of the thr
 ee great Early Netherlandish artists\, and widely as the most influential 
 Northern painter of the 15th century.\n\n1399 – June 25\, 1464\; died at
  about 65.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Christopher Colu
 mbus\, Joan of Arc\, Jan Hus\, and François Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Rogier_van_der_Weyden
SUMMARY:Rogier van der Weyden · 1399–1464
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-francois-boucher-q180932
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17030929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17700531
DESCRIPTION:François Boucher was a French painter\, draughtsman and etcher
 \, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and vo
 luptuous paintings on classical themes\, decorative allegories\, and pasto
 ral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative arti
 st of the 18th century.\n\nSeptember 29\, 1703 – May 30\, 1770\; died at
  66.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\
 , George Washington\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhttp
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher
SUMMARY:François Boucher · 1703–1770
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-paolo-uccello-q192488
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13970615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14751220
DESCRIPTION:Paolo Uccello\, born Paolo di Dono\, was an Italian Renaissance
  painter and mathematician from Florence who was notable for his pioneerin
 g work on visual perspective in art. In his book Lives of the Most Excelle
 nt Painters\, Sculptors\, and Architects\, Giorgio Vasari wrote that Uccel
 lo was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night
  in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. Uccello used pers
 pective to create a feeling of depth in his paintings. His best known work
 s are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano\, which we
 re wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of 1416 for a long period of
  time.\n\nJune 15\, 1397 – December 19\, 1475\; died at 78.\nAlive at th
 e same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Christopher Columbus\, Joan of Arc\, Ja
 n Hus\, and François Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Uccel
 lo
SUMMARY:Paolo Uccello · 1397–1475
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-antonello-da-messina-q5594
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14300101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14800101
DESCRIPTION:Antonello da Messina\, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antoni
 o\, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Me
 ssina\, was an Italian painter from Messina\, active during the Italian Ea
 rly Renaissance.\n\n1430 – 1479\; died at about 48.\nAlive at the same t
 ime as Leonardo da Vinci\, Christopher Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, E
 rasmus\, and François Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonello_
 da_Messina
SUMMARY:Antonello da Messina · 1430–1479
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-apelles-q216822
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03690101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-03040101
DESCRIPTION:Apelles of Kos was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny 
 the Elder\, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is o
 wed\, rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Ape
 lles to the 112th Olympiad\, possibly because he had produced a portrait o
 f Alexander the Great.\n\n370 BC – 306 BC\; died at about 64.\nAlive at 
 the same time as Aristotle\, Alexander the Great\, Euclid\, Chanakya\, and
  Plato.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apelles
SUMMARY:Apelles · 370–306 BC
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-simone-martini-q221043
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12800101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13440810
DESCRIPTION:Simone Martini was an Italian painter born in Siena.\nHe was a 
 major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly infl
 uenced the development of the International Gothic style.\n\n1280 – Augu
 st 9\, 1344\; died at about 64.\nAlive at the same time as Dante Alighieri
 \, Marco Polo\, Kublai Khan\, William of Ockham\, and Roger Bacon.\n\nhttp
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Martini
SUMMARY:Simone Martini · 1280–1344
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-ambrogio-lorenzetti-q211562
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12900101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13480610
DESCRIPTION:Ambrogio Lorenzetti was an Italian painter of the Sienese schoo
 l. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted The Allegory 
 of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove in the Palazzo Pubblico at
  Siena. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.\n\n1290 – J
 une 9\, 1348\; died at about 58.\nAlive at the same time as Dante Alighier
 i\, Marco Polo\, William of Ockham\, Edward I of England\, and Ibn Taymiyy
 ah.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrogio_Lorenzetti
SUMMARY:Ambrogio Lorenzetti · 1290–1348
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-robert-campin-q80442
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13750101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14440506
DESCRIPTION:Robert Campin\, now usually identified with the Master of Flém
 alle\, was a master painter who\, along with Jan van Eyck\, initiated the 
 development of early Netherlandish painting\, a key development in the ear
 ly Northern Renaissance.\n\n1375 – May 5\, 1444\; died at about 69.\nAli
 ve at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenberg\, Geoffrey Chaucer
 \, Zheng He\, and Jan Hus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Campin
SUMMARY:Robert Campin · 1375–1444
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-gentile-da-fabriano-q312393
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13700101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14280101
DESCRIPTION:Gentile da Fabriano was an Italian painter known for his partic
 ipation in the International Gothic pictorial style. He worked in various 
 places in central Italy\, mostly in Tuscany.\n\n1370 – 1427\; died at ab
 out 56.\nAlive at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenberg\, Geof
 frey Chaucer\, Zheng He\, and Jan Hus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge
 ntile_da_Fabriano
SUMMARY:Gentile da Fabriano · 1370–1427
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-pietro-lorenzetti-q309635
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12800101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13490101
DESCRIPTION:Pietro Lorenzetti or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter\, ac
 tive between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogi
 o\, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and exper
 iments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements\, the brothers fore
 shadowed the art of the Renaissance.\n\n1280 – 1348\; died at about 68.\
 nAlive at the same time as Dante Alighieri\, Marco Polo\, Kublai Khan\, Wi
 lliam of Ockham\, and Roger Bacon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro
 _Lorenzetti
SUMMARY:Pietro Lorenzetti · 1280–1348
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-godfrey-kneller-q65317
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16460808
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17231028
DESCRIPTION:Sir Godfrey Kneller\, 1st Baronet was a British painter of Germ
 an origin. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and e
 arly Georgian eras\, he served as court painter to successive English and 
 British monarchs\, including Charles II of England and George I of Great B
 ritain. Kneller also painted scientists such as Isaac Newton\, foreign mon
 archs such as Louis XIV of France and visitors to England such as Michael 
 Shen Fu-Tsung. A pioneer of the kit-cat portrait\, he was also commissione
 d by William III of England to paint eight "Hampton Court Beauties" to mat
 ch a similar series of paintings of Charles II's "Windsor Beauties" that h
 ad been painted by Kneller's predecessor as court painter\, Peter Lely.\n\
 nAugust 8\, 1646 – October 27\, 1723\; died at 77.\nAlive at the same ti
 me as Isaac Newton\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Voltaire\, Jean-Jacques Rouss
 eau\, and Benjamin Franklin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Knel
 ler
SUMMARY:Godfrey Kneller · 1646–1723
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-hyacinthe-rigaud-q49898
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16590718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17431230
DESCRIPTION:Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra\, known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud\
 , was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV 
 and other members of the French nobility.\n\nJuly 18\, 1659 – December 2
 9\, 1743\; died at 84.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, George Wa
 shington\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Voltaire\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhttps:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinthe_Rigaud
SUMMARY:Hyacinthe Rigaud · 1659–1743
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-agostino-carracci-q316269
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15570826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16020323
DESCRIPTION:Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter\, printmaker\, tapestr
 y designer\, and art teacher. He was\, together with his brother\, Annibal
 e Carracci\, and cousin\, Ludovico Carracci\, one of the founders of the A
 ccademia degli Incamminati in Bologna. Intended to devise alternatives to 
 the Mannerist style favoured in the preceding decades\, this teaching acad
 emy helped propel painters of the School of Bologna to prominence.\n\nAugu
 st 26\, 1557 – March 22\, 1602\; died at 44.\nAlive at the same time as 
 William Shakespeare\, Francis Bacon\, Elizabeth I of England\, Johannes Ke
 pler\, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Agostino_Carracci
SUMMARY:Agostino Carracci · 1557–1602
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DTSTAMP:20261017T013438Z
UID:painters-rosalba-carriera-q237726
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16730112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17570416
DESCRIPTION:Rosalba Carriera was an Italian Rococo painter. In her younger 
 years\, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later becom
 e known for her pastel portraits\, helping popularize the medium in eighte
 enth-century Europe. She is remembered as one of the most successful women
  artists of any era.\n\nJanuary 12\, 1673 – April 15\, 1757\; died at 84
 .\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, George Washington\, Johann Seb
 astian Bach\, Voltaire\, and Immanuel Kant.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Rosalba_Carriera
SUMMARY:Rosalba Carriera · 1673–1757
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