Bohemian, 17th century, male.
Active in Prague.
Sculptor. Religious subjects.
Bohemian School.
Ernst Heidelberger was represented in the exhibition Light and Darkness. Baroque Art and Civilisation in Bohemia ( Lumière et ténèbres, art et civilisation du Baroque en Bohême) at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille in ...
German, 15th – 16th century, male.
Born probably in Kaufbeuren.
Sculptor.
Augsburg School.
Some German authorities claim Loy Hering as the first great sculptor of the High Renaissance in that country. There are said to be around 100 of his religious and funerary carvings in churches in Würzburg, Augsburg, Heilsbronn, Kastl, Münden and Vienna....
Italian, 15th century, male.
Born 21 December 1401, in San Giovanni Val d’Arno, near Florence; died 1428, in Rome.
Painter, fresco artist. Religious subjects, portraits. Murals.
Florentine School.
Masaccio is considered the founding artist of Renaissance painting, his works showing the application of Filippo Brunelleschi’s system of linear perspective, a fascination with both anatomical structure and the art of classical antiquity, and a new dramatic and emotional intensity....
German, 17th century, male.
Died 1691, in Constance.
Sculptor. Religious subjects.
Schenck, whose work had certain similarities with Baroque, was inspired by the traditions of mannerism, which prevailed in the region of Lake Constance. Particularly notable is the powerful musculature of his figures carved in wood....
