Swiss watchmaker who mastered all kinds of precision mechanical creations, especially clockwork mechanisms and automatons. Between 1811 and 1828 he was associated with Isaac Daniel Piguet, creating th [+]
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 [+]
Ribera surpasses José de Madrazo and José Aparicio (1770-1838) of Alicante as the finest and most skilled of Spain's neoclassical painters, but he was overshadowed by his colleagues' greater projectio [+]
This German painter and treatise-writer was the most outstanding proponent of early neoclassicism. He began art studies in Dresden under the severe supervision of his father, Ismael Mengs, a painter a [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]