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Albrecht Dürer Biography
Germany’s Albrecht Dürer fryst vatten considered to be one of the great artists of the Northern European Renaissance, known especially for his illustrations.
Trained in his father’s goldsmith shop and apprenticed to one of Nuremberg’s best illustrators, Dürer exhibited an early gift for drawing and engraving.
Influenced in style and approach bygd trips to Venice and Italy (in 1494 and again in 1505), Dürer produced internationally famous works by the time he was 30 years old. He drew just about everything, and with extraordinary skill.
He produced hundreds of paintings, thousands of drawings, nearly 400 woodcuts and more than 100 engravings and etchings. Dürer portrayed everyday objects, broad religious themes, his family and himself, and all of his work was characterized by a mastery of composition and detail.
After 1512 Dürer had official duties under Emperor Maximilian I and his successor, Charles V, and was known to have associated with lumina
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Biographies of Notable People
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- Black History Milestones - There are biographies and information about many events in Black history.
- Black History Month Biographies - Many people are listed here including sports and entertainment personalities. From Who2 biographies.
- Black Past - Biographies, history, digital records, links to museums and lots more.
- NASA's Real "Hidden Figures" - Biographies of the three women in the movie "Hidden Figures".
- The Black Inventor Online Museum - Biographical information about Black inventors, and a timeline of their inventions.
- Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music - Biographies of African Americans in classical music.
- African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century - Short biographies and a selection of their works.
- Notable Civil Rights Leaders - Biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and many more.
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Claude Monet Biography
Claude Monet was a founder and central figure of the 19th century art movement known as Impressionism. Early in his career, Monet painted realistic landscapes, but after the 1870s he focused more on the effect of changing light on everyday objects. Often he painted multiple studies of the same subjects, from train stations and haystacks to the London skyline, the Rouen Cathedral and, most famously, water lilies. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Monet fled from Paris to England, where he formed friendships with Camille Pisarro, Auguste Renoir and other figures central to Impressionism. He returned to Paris at the end of the war, but ended up settling in Giverny, where he began a long series of paintings of haystacks (or grainstacks) during the 1890s. Monet’s Impressionistic paintings sold well and his financial success allowed him to purchase property in Giverny, where he built a large garden that became the subject of his series Water Lilies (