Tiepolo was famous throughout Europe as an unrivaled fresco painter and a splendid draftsman. His first teacher, Gregorio Lazzarini, encouraged his disciples to study 16th-century Venetian art but Tie [+]
Aguirre moved to Madrid between 1745 and 1752 and began studies there at the newly founded Academy of San Fernando the following year. In 1758 he obtained a pension from Ferdinand VI to complete his t [+]
Considered the maximum representative of rococo painting in Rome during the first half of the 18th century and a referent for various generations of Spanish painters, this artist produced abundant oil [+]
Initially a pupil of his father and subsequently of François Lemoine, Boucher also worked in the studio of the engraver Jean-François Cars and later for Jean de Jullienne, engraving a great many of Wa [+]