Portuguese, 18th century, male.
Born 1741; died 1795.
Painter, watercolourist, decorative artist. Religious subjects, landscapes with figures, scenes with figures. Murals, stage sets.
Araujo was above all a skilled painter of scenery. He managed the theatre in Lisbon's Bairo Alto. After entering the Third Franciscan Order's Convent of Jesus, he quickly realised he had mistaken his true vocation. Having made several paintings in the monastery, he abandoned monastic life and later married....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1926, in Frémery (Moselle).
Painter, sculptor, decorative designer. Figure compositions, religious subjects, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, designs for mosaics and stained-glass windows, stage sets, stage costumes.
Arcabas studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and also had a degree. He was a friend of the painter Dimitri Varbanesco. He exhibited in numerous towns in France and abroad. From ...
Uruguayan, 20th century, male.
Active in Spain.
Born 5 February 1898, in Montevideo; died 12 February 1929, in Montevideo.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects, genre scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes, urban landscapes. Stage sets, comic cartoons.
The son of Spanish emigrants, Rafaél Pérez Barradas spent most of his artistic life in Spain, where he was soon contributing illustrations to the press. In 1913, he traveled in Italy and France, then settled in Condal. In 1928, he decided to return to Uruguay. He died prematurely of an illness. He is considered to have formed part of the Spanish artistic avant-garde at the beginning of the 1920s. Starting in a Post-Impressionist style that was soon influenced by Gauguin, he rapidly lightened his palette and became interested in the Cubist vision of reality while breaking out of the unitary vision of form. His canvases, with grey and ochre colours, represent landscapes and burlesque scenes from daily life. ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 7 October 1797, in Paris; died 14 September 1871, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman. Religious subjects, landscapes, landscapes with figures, architectural views. Stage sets, church decoration.
Barbizon School.
A pupil of Bidauld, Ingres and Girodet-Trioson at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, François Bertin exhibited at the salon quite regularly from 1827 to 1853. He was the son of the founder of the ...
Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 18 August 1657, in Bologna; died 3 January 1743, in Bologna.
Painter, draughtsman, decorative designer, architect. Architectural views, church interiors, harbour scenes. Church decoration, stage sets.
Son of Giovanni Maria Galli, Ferdinando Bibiena studied alongside his father under Carlo Cignani and went on to work for the architect Troili (known as Paradosso) and for Mannini and Aldrovandini. His mentor Cignani recommended him to Duke Ranuccio Farnese in Parma, who appointed him first painter and architect to his court. He remained there under the Duke's successor Francesco, dividing the next 24 years of his life between Parma and Piacenza. His work includes the decoration of the Duke of Mirandola's Casino della Motta (in collaboration with his brother Francesco); two chapels in the Jesuit church in Reggio; a chapel in Parma, together with the façade and a chamber in the ducal palace; a chapel in the Palazzo Maggiore; and the Cappella Maggiore in the church of S Sepolcro. In Piacenza, he painted the oratory ceiling in the church of S Vincenzo, scenes for the convent of S Sisto, and cupolas for the Chiesa della Morte....
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 5 January 1696, in Parma; died 1756, in Berlin.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman (including ink/wash), decorative designer, architect. Architectural views, interiors. Stage sets, church decoration, theatre decoration.
Second son and pupil of Ferdinando Bibiena, Giuseppe Bibiena accompanied his father to Barcelona and on his appointment to the court of Vienna in ...
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 1692, in Bologna; died 1776.
Painter, decorative designer, fresco artist, draughtsman, sculptor. Mythological subjects, religious subjects, figures, landscapes with figures. Stage sets, church decoration.
The year of Vittorio Bigari's death is questioned by some sources cited by Moser, which contend that he lived and worked in Russia until ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 3 September 1921, in La Baule.
Painter, lithographer, illustrator. Scenes with figures, portraits, nudes, landscapes, still-lifes. Stage sets, stage costumes, church decoration.
Jean Bruneau was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes from 1938 to 1945 and won the Prix de la Ville de Nantes in his final year. In ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 1 January 1912.
Painter. Religious subjects. Stage sets.
Geoffrey Burnand studied under Walter Russell and Walter T. Monnington and received the Prix de Rome in 1935. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the New English Art Club in London. A number of his baptistery panels were purchased by churches....
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Born 1915 or 1916, in Huelva; died 1991.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, collage artist, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects, figures, genre scenes, horse racing scenes, still-lifes. Murals, stage sets.
Caballero gave up engineering studies to enter the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 2 February 1823, in Paris; died 1907, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, designer. Church interiors, landscapes, urban landscapes, architectural views. Stage sets.
Philippe Chaperon was set designer at the Opéra in Paris, producing most of the sets for French subsidised theatres, as well as the main theatres in France and abroad and the Expositions Universelles. He painted watercolours based on nature. He was the father of Eugène and Émile Chaperon, who took over from him....
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 8 September 1833, in Milan; died 11 May 1907, in Milan.
Painter, watercolourist. Landscapes, architectural views, church interiors. Stage sets, theatre decoration.
In 1867 Carlo Ferrario decorated La Scala in Milan, and also designed stage sets there, particularly for the works of Verdi. From ...
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 1829, in Bologna; died 1895, in Pesaro (Marche).
Painter, fresco artist, decorative designer. Landscapes, still-lifes (flowers/fruit). Frescoes, stage sets, church decoration, murals.
Augusto Ferri was the son of Domenico Ferri. After a trip to Paris with his father, he was taken on as a painter at the Teatro Regio in Turin. He spent time in Madrid too, designing sets for numerous operas. He also painted decorative frescoes in many churches, palaces and cafes in Madrid, Barcelona and Valladolid. Ferri is known in Turin for his decorative works in the palace of the Duke of Aosta....
Swiss, 20th century, female.
Active from 1923 active in France.
Born 8 August 1904, in Basel; died 12 January 1977, in Mulhouse, France.
Painter, draughtswoman, illustrator. Religious subjects, rustic scenes, popular scenes. Stage sets.
Véronique Filozof arrived in Paris in 1923, but did not begin her career as a painter until the age of 44. She started her apprenticeship with traditional painting, attempting to portray a resemblance of the subject. However, allergic to any artifice such as perspective, and on the advice of the critic Georges Besson, she began to draw in other ways with only a pen and a bottle of Indian ink. Her main subject was, she stressed: 'Man: his life, his work, his joys, his sorrows'. She worked extensively in series, sometimes assembling drawings in volumes. The first of them was ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1 October 1913, in Paris; died 10 September 1998.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, engraver, designer. Figure compositions, figures, harbour views, still-lifes, flowers. Designs for mosaics, stage sets, church decoration, wall decorations.
Nouvelle Figuration.
André Fougeron came from a family of peasant labourers originally from the Creuse area. In his biography he describes his working life: after completing his basic education he began working as an apprentice draughtsman and then as a metalworker at one of the Renault plants before being made unemployed; he also married and had three children. As an artist he was largely self taught and attended evening classes. In ...
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 3 November 1707, in Andorno; died 31 March 1794, in Andorno.
Painter, draughtsman, decorative artist. Religious subjects, figures, landscapes, architectural views. Stage sets.
Bernardino Galliari was one of the three sons of Giovanni Galliari the Elder. He started out working under Giorgio Clerici. He and his two brothers were in great demand all over Europe....
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active in France, from 1946 in Brazil.
Born 30 April 1904, in Petrograd (now St Petersburg).
Painter. Portraits, figures, landscapes, winter landscapes. Murals, stage sets, designs for fabrics, church decoration.
Vladimir Krivutz studied at the School of Fine Art in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) under Sergei Sudeikin and Leon Bakst, and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked in Paris until the mid 1940s. As a painter, his preferred subjects were rainy and snowy scenes, and destitution and needy children....
Polish, 20th century, female.
Active in France.
Born 1886 or 1887, in Warsaw.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits. Stage sets.
Stephanie Lazarska spent most of her professional life in Paris, where she studied under Humbert at the École des Beaux-Arts, and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson. She produced portraits, religious paintings and stage sets....
Lebanese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 18 May 1949, in Biblos or Beirut.
Painter, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects. Stage sets, murals.
He obtained his degree at the Beirut school of fine arts, where he taught from 1980 to 1983 in the architecture, decorative arts and graphics departments....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 19 September 1913, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Figures, portraits, landscapes, flowers. Church decoration, stage sets.
Symbolism.
The son of Roger Maillart, the painter, and grandson of Diogène Maillart, Jean Denis studied under Devandez and Orthon Friez. He was awarded the Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris in ...
