langs: 27 декабря [ru] / december 27 [en] / 27. dezember [de] / 27 décembre [fr] / 27 dicembre [it] / 27 de diciembre [es]
days: december 24 / december 25 / december 26 / december 27 / december 28 / december 29 / december 30
Johann Wilhelm Beyer (27 December 1725 in Gotha, † 23 March 1796 in Hietzing), a German sculptor, porcelain artist, painter and garden designer. Beyer has the largest share in the design of the gardens and statues of Schönbrunn Palace , which is regarded as his masterpiece. Johann Christian Wilhelm
#2 Léon Bakst
Léon Bakst ( Russian : Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст , Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich ) Rosenberg , Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866 [1] [2] – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume desig
Elizabeth "Bessie" Buehrmann (c. 1886 – c. 1965) was born June 13, 1886, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri . [1] Elizabeth was an American photographer and artist who was one of the pioneers of taking formal portraits of people in their own homes rather than in a studio. [2] This article needs additional
Frank Martin (27 December 1914 – 19 January 2004) was a British sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department of Saint Martin's School of Art from 1952 to 1979. He brought young and forward-thinking sculptors into the department to teach, among them Anthony Caro , Robert Clatworthy , Elisabeth F
Johannes Boese (27 December 1856, Ostrog (near Ratibor ) - 20 April 1917, Berlin ), also spelled Böse , was a German sculptor and art professor. German sculptor and art professor Not to be confused with Johannes Boese [ de ] (1939-2012), the German archaeologist. Johannes Boese (c. 1900)
#6 Asu Dev
Asu Dev (আশু দেব) born as Ashutosh Deb (13 December 1917 - 6 February 1983) . Asu Dev was born in Dhubri, Assam India . Asu Dev [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] was a pioneer artist of Assam. He was a painter, sculptor and an Art Educator. During his lifetime he had worked as a Textile Designer in several Cotton
Thomas Fearnley (27 December 1802 – 16 January 1842) was a Norwegian romantic painter, a pupil of Johan Christian Dahl and a leading representative of Norwegian romantic nationalism in painting. His son Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927) founded the Fearnley dynasty of shipping magnates. [1] [2] Norwegian
#8 Bruno Bobak
Bruno Bobak , CM RCA LL.D., D.Litt (born Bronislaw Jacob Bobak ; 27 December 1923 – 24 September 2012) was a Polish-born Canadian war painter and art teacher. His main medium was watercolour painting but he also produced woodcuts . Bruno Bobak Born Bronislaw Jacob Bobak 27 December 1923 Wawelówka, n
Tudor Cataraga (born 4 August 1956 in Seliște – 27 December 2010) was a sculptor from the Republic of Moldova . [1] This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry . ( July 2017 ) Tudor Cataraga Tudor Cataraga, Knight of the National Order of the Star of Romania
#10 Douglas Miles
Douglas Miles is a San Carlos Apache - Akimel O'odham painter, printmaker and photographer from Arizona , who founded Apache Skateboards and Apache Skate Team. For rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, see Doug Miles . American painter Douglas Miles Sr Born ( 1963-12-27 ) December 27, 196
#11 Martha Combe
Martha Howell Bennett Combe ( née Edwards ; 1806 - 27 December 1893) was a British art collector who was influential in supporting and promoting the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . British philanthropist Martha Combe Born Martha Edwards 1806 ( 1806 ) Oxford , England Died 27 December 18
Robbie Duff-Scott was a self-taught British oil painter, born in Bristol in 1959. English painter Robbie Duff-Scott Born ( 1959-07-01 ) 1 July 1959 Bristol , England Died 27 December 2016 (2016-12-27) (aged 57) Italy Education University of York Known for Oil painting Notable work Francis Kyle C
#13 Joseph Melling
Joseph Melling (27 December 1724, Saint-Avold - 23 December 1796, Strasbourg ) was an Alsatian artist who served as court painter for the Margraviate of Baden at Karlsruhe Palace . French painter This article needs additional citations for verification . ( September 2015 ) Self-portrait (date unknow
Leon Jan Wyczółkowski ( Polish: [vɨtʂuwˈkɔfskʲi] ; 24 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum . From 1895 to 1911 he served as professor of the Jan Matejko Acade
Alfred Scott Broad (1854 – 27 April 1929) was an Australian artist, regarded as the first black-and-white artist born in South Australia to be published. He was known as "Alf", and was often referred to as "A. Scott Broad" as though his surname was "Scott-Broad", and was often written that way. An a
Marie Magdalene Elisabeth Hassenpflug (27 December 1788 – 21 November 1856) was a German author whose versions of various folk tales were an important source for the collection of tales by the Brothers Grimm . She is best known for her versions of " Little Red Riding Hood " ( Rotkäppchen ), " Slee
#17 Friedrich Ludwig (painter)
Friedrich Ludwig (1895 [1] –1970) was a German expressionist painter . He created art using oil paint, chalk, gouache, and watercolor paints. [2] German painter
#18 Paul Madonna
Paul Madonna (born 1972) is an American artist. Paul Madonna Paul Madonna Born 1972 (age 49 – 50) United States Nationality American Alma mater Carnegie-Mellon University Known for Drawing, comics
Frances Emilia Crofton née Dunn (1822 – 23 October 1910), known professionally as Mrs William Crofton , was an Anglo-Irish landscape painter of the picturesque style who flourished in the mid-19th century. In 1854 she published Eight Views , a folio edition of lithograph prints of her original lands
Nikolai Petrovich Khodataev ( Russian : Николай Петрович Ходатаев ; 9 May [ O.S. 26 April ] 1892 — 27 December 1979) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor and animator, one of the founders of the Soviet animation industry . [1] Russian painter Nikolai Khodataev Born Nikolai Petrovich Khodata
Christine Abrahams Gallery, first named Axiom, was a Melbourne gallery showing contemporary Australian art between 1980 and 2008. Australian Art Gallery
#2 Art Gallery (University of Southern Maine)
The Art Gallery of the University of Southern Maine , Gorham campus, is located at 5 University Way, at the main campus entrance. The building in which it is located was built in 1822 as a non-denominational church building, and has also served as Gorham's town hall. It has been part of the campus s
#3 Inhotim
The Inhotim Institute is home to one of the largest foundations of contemporary art in Brazil and one of the largest outdoor art centers in Latin America. [1] [2] It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz [3] in 2004 to house his personal art collection, but opened to the public a cou
#4 National Palace Museum of Korea
The National Palace Museum of Korea is a national museum of South Korea located in Gyeongbokgung Palace , Seoul . February 2009 National Palace Museum of Korea 국립고궁박물관 Established September 1908 Location Sajikno 34 ( Sejongno ), Jongno-gu , Seoul , South Korea Visitors 1,513,000 (2016) [1] Director
The Constellations are a series of 23 paintings on paper produced from January 1940 to September 1941 by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró . Art historians and museum curators have said of the paintings: "Universally considered one of the greatest achievements of his career", [1] : 1 p. "The Cons
L'Oiseau bleu (also known as The Blue Bird and Der Blaue Vogel ) is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956); considered by Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon as a founder of Cubism , along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso . L'Oi
#3 Prague Altarpiece of Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Prague Altarpiece (c. 1520) of Lucas Cranach the Elder portrays the Virgin Mary and female saints was, at the time it was made, the second most important altarpiece in St Vitus Cathedral . The altarpiece was most probably brought to Prague as a commission by Emperor Maximilian I. The reason for
Catharina Both van der Eem is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals , painted in 1620 and now in Louvre Museum . It is considered a pendant portrait to the Portrait of Paulus van Beresteyn , in the same museum. Painting by Frans Hals Catharina Both-van der Eem Catharina Both van der
Jean-Albert Cartier (15 May 1930 – 27 December 2015) was a French art critic and director of cultural institutions. He was director of the Paris Opera from 1989 to 1991.
Michel Pastor (1944 – 2 February 2014) was an heir, businessman and art collector from Monaco . Businessman and art collector Michel Pastor Born 1944 Monaco Died 2 February 2014 (2014-02-02) (aged 69–70) Monaco Occupation Businessman, art collector Spouse 2, including Catherine Pastor Children 5 P
#3 Lucien Magne
Lucien Magne (27 December 1849 - 25 July 1916) was a French architect specialising in religious buildings. [1] Lucien Magne Lucien Magne Born 27 December 1849 Paris , France Died 25 July 1916 ( 1916-07-26 ) (aged 66) Eaubonne , Val d'Oise , France Occupation Architect He took a large part in the
Nancy J. Troy (born 27 December 1952) is Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art at Stanford University . She was previously professor of modern art and chair of art history at the University of Southern California until 2010. Troy is a specialist in modern European art and has written books on the
Sunil Kothari (20 December 1933 – 27 December 2020) [1] was a noted Indian dance historian, scholar and critic. He was also former Uday Shankar Professor at Ravindra Bharti University , Kolkata . [2] Indian academic (1933–2020) Sunil Kothari Sunil Kothari in 2015 Born ( 1933-12-20 ) December 20, 193
Pinkney Near (1927 - 1990) was curator of the Cincinnati Museum of Art and afterward curator of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for thirty years. He was responsible for the VMFA 's acquisition of many treasured works of art, including arranging for the museum to purchase from John Lee Pratt the Fra
Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (13 September 1564 – 27 December 1637) was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known today largely for the Giustiniani art collection, assembled at the Palazzo Giustiniani , near the Pantheon , in Rom
Mary Teissier (born Maria Petrovna Perevostchikova ; 27 December 1917 – 1 August 1990) was a Ukrainian-French socialite, heiress, interior designer, and art collector. She is best known as the long-time mistress of American millionaire J. Paul Getty , with whom she lived with at Sutton Place . When
Sir Howard Montagu Colvin CVO CBE FBA FRHistS FSA (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works . Br
The Vicomte Olivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge (11 April 1811, in Paris – 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne, Sarthe) was an Egyptologist [1] and philologist French member of the House of Rougé . French politician and professor This article needs additional citations for
#11 Albert Kutal
Albert Kutal (9 January 1904, Hranice na Moravě – 27 December 1976, Brno [1] ) was a Czech art historian of Moravian descent who established classifying principles of Central European Gothic sculpture as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval art [2] of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influ
#12 Vasily Botkin
Vasily Petrovich Botkin ( Russian: Васи́лий Петро́вич Бо́ткин ; 8 January 1812 [ O.S. 27 December 1811 ] – 22 October [ O.S. 10 October ] 1869 ) was a Russian essayist, literary, art and music critic, translator and publicist. Vasily Botkin Born Vasily Petrovich Botkin 8 January 1812 [ O.S. 27 D
#13 Kōji Taki
Kōji Taki ( Japanese : 多木 浩二 , Hepburn : Taki Kōji , 27 December 1928 – 13 April 2011) was a Japanese critic and philosopher . [1] This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This artic
Walter Conrad Arensberg (April 4, 1878 – January 29, 1954) was an American art collector, critic and poet. His father was part owner and president of a crucible steel company. He majored in English and philosophy at Harvard University. With his wife Louise (born as Mary Louise Stevens ; 1879–1953),
#15 Bruno Adler
Bruno Maria Adler (14 October 1888 – 27 December 1968) was a German art historian and writer. He taught art history in Weimar and lectured about it at the Bauhaus . Adler fled Germany after the Nazis seized power and emigrated to England, where he worked first at a German-Jewish refugee school in Ke
Georges Hulin de Loo (10 December 1862, in Ghent – 27 December 1945, in Brussels ) was a Belgian art historian specialising in Early Netherlandish art . He was educated in his home city of Ghent where he attended high school and university, earning a Ph.D from the Faculty of Arts in 1883, and a degr
#17 Ernst Kitzinger
Ernst Kitzinger (December 27, 1912 – January 22, 2003) was a German - American historian of late antique , early medieval , and Byzantine art . American art historian This article needs additional citations for verification . ( April 2019 ) Ernst Kitzinger (1988)
#18 Gretchen Garner
Gretchen Garner (December 27, 1939 - February 15, 2017) [1] was an American art historian , curator, writer, teacher and self-taught photographer. American art historian
#19 John Higgitt
John Higgitt (1947 – 2006) was a British art historian and epigrapher . He was born in London on 2 December 1947. [1] The birth was registered in the Hampstead District Offices. [2] He died on the 27th December 2006 in Edinburgh . British art historian and epigrapher John Higgitt Academic backgro
#1 Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri , United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch , [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible building . Some sources consider it the tallest human-ma
The Venus Italica is a marble sculpture commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte and fashioned by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova . Canova finished the original work in 1802 and modelled two further variants which he completed in 1819. [1] The work was to serve as a replacement for the Venus de Medici scu
#3 Values of Civilization (Doyle)
The Values of Civilization sculpture group is public art by American artist Alexander Doyle . The allegorical sculpture group is located on the third floor in the rotunda of the Indiana State House , which is in Indianapolis , Indiana , United States. The heroic-sized sculptures, representing Agricu
#4 African American Civil War Memorial Museum
The African American Civil War Memorial Museum , in the U Street district of Washington, D.C. , recognizes the contributions of the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT). The eponymous memorial, dedicated in July 1998 by the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation
#5 Pittsburgh Law Enforcement Memorial
The Law Enforcement Officers Memorial of Allegheny County is a monument to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 's law enforcement community in honor of fallen officers of both the Pittsburgh Police and suburban departments. The original was dedicated in September 1996 near the Carnegie Science Center but
The City of Portsmouth War Memorial , also referred to as the Guildhall Square War Memorial , is a First World War memorial in Guildhall Square in the centre of Portsmouth , Hampshire , on the south coast of England. [1] Portsmouth was and remains a port and home to a major naval dockyard. The docky
The Saint-Gaudens double eagle is a twenty- dollar gold coin , or double eagle , produced by the United States Mint from 1907 to 1933. The coin is named after its designer, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens , who designed the obverse and reverse . It is considered by many to be the most beautiful
L'Âme de la France ("The Soul of France") is the name given by the French sculptor Carlo Sarrabezolles to three identical monumental statues that he executed in three different materials during the interwar period , the first in plaster in 1921, the second in stone in 1922, and the last in bronze in
The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) tall Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite . It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Knidos , [1] w
#10 Urn of Life
The Urn of Life (modeled 1898-1900, carved 1905-1906) is an allegorical sculpture by George Grey Barnard in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , United States. [1] Carved from white Carrara marble , it is 37.875 in (96.20 cm) in height, 32.25 in (81.9 cm