Living With Art 5e Online content by Brian Gore
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Artists: Gianlorenzo Bernini

This prodigious, multitalented artist was one of the first "Renaissance men" to be born after the Renaissance. For more information on him, check out the website below, which offers on-line works and links to a brief biography:

Gianlorenzo Bernini
http://www.ocaiw.com/berninp.htm

Artists: Peter Paul Rubens

This highly amiable artist learned his craft traveling throughout Italy, where he was able to study the works of great painters firsthand. When family matters finally brought him back to Antwerp, love, business and royalty made it difficult for him to leave. To learn more about the man and his paintings, check out the websites listed below:

Pieter Paul Rubens
http://www.televisual.net/uffizi/p_rubens.html
This site contains a brief biography of the artist and more information on Flemish art.

Artists on Art: Picasso on Velazquez

In his own version of the Velazquez masterpiece Las Meninas, Picasso demonstrates his knowledge of the seventeenth-century painter. Through his playful inventiveness, he humorously contrasts their distinct approaches toward art. To learn more about Velazquez, visit the following for a presentation of his work:

Diego Velazquez
http://www.evl.uic.edu/chris/meninas/

Related images and information about Picasso can be found at:

Artchive:Picasso
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/picasso_ext.html

Artists: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

As a painter who grew up in an artistic family, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun supported  her family at an early age with  her portrait work. She managed to work steadily through family struggles and parenthood, and the quality of her work won her numerous friends in high places--including the Queen of England. The website listed below is a one-stop shop for much of the Internet-related material on this artist.

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
http://www.batguano.com/vigee.html

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