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DELTA is a fictional screenplay that explores the lives of young film-directors who seek success in the entertainment industry. ‘The Director’ bar is where...

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Walter Pater, the English critic, essayist and humanist is noted for the advocacy of “art for art’s sake”, which became a cardinal doctrine of...

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The great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian school, Tintoretto was one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. Due to his phenomenal...

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The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a...

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Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest master of the Dutch Golden Age, created a prolific and innovative body of paintings and etchings, having an immense...

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Pietro Perugino was a Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school and the teacher of Raphael. He was also one of the first to handle successfully the new...

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Regarded today as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, the Dutch painter and theoretician Piet Mondrian was an important leader in the rise of...

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The greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced innovative landscapes and vigorous, witty scenes of peasant life....

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The fifteenth century artist Piero della Francesca produced works that are characterised by their serene, disciplined exploration, providing a major, though...

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Few artists achieve in their lives the wealth and fame of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, whose beautiful Baroque works were celebrated for their emphasised...

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The Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin is now recognised for his experimental use of colour and synthetist style, seeking to achieve a “primitive” expression...

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The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art,...

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The first great artist of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance, Masaccio would have an incredible impact on the course of Western art, in...

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The foremost female American artist of the late nineteenth century, Mary Cassatt lived much of her life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and...

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The work of the Russian modernist Kazimir Malevich had a profound influence on the development of abstract art in the twentieth century. He developed his...

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Sir Joshua Reynolds was a renowned portrait painter and aesthetician, who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late eighteenth century....

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The American artist John Singer Sargent, widely considered the leading portrait painter of his generation, is celebrated for his paintings of Edwardian era...

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The leading exponent of the Rococo style, Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s paintings are characterised by remarkable facility, exuberance and frivolous hedonism....

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The principal exponent of the Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style, Jacques-Louis David won wide acclaim with his huge canvases on classical...