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Born: 1606
Died: 1669
Gender: Male
Nationality: Dutch

“Rembrandt’s world and his humanity are all his own. No other master poses so clearly the problem of the relationship between Man and the world, between the creative artist and his period, between style and subject—I mean the exact relationship between a definition that is right for a particular group and that which will serve for an individual.”       Henri Focillon.

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Born: 1929
Gender: Male
Nationality: American

“While most American artists of his generation sought their inspiration in contemporary popular culture, Twombly turned to the traditional sources of Western art: Greek and Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.”                       Catalogue for the exhibition ‘American Art of the 20th Century’.

Edwin Parker Twombly Jr was born in Virginia in the USA. He studied at Washington and Lee University, Boston Museum School, The Arts League in New York and Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

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Born: 1775
Died: 1851
Gender: Male
Nationality: English

“He seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy…” John Constable.

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in Maiden Lane, off Covent Garden in London. Turner showed talent early on and by the age of 13 his father, realising his son was a potentially lucrative asset, apprenticed him to Thomas Malton, a watercolourist. After a year Turner enrolled at the Royal Academy to study painting. By 1793 with the help of his father, Turner had his own studio. His early work consisted of precise drawings of landscapes, churches and country houses, while his main income came from work as a copyist.

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Born: 1490
Died: 1576
Gender: Male
Nationality: Italian

“The classicism of Venice did not find its fundamental expressive force in the use of line to create its images, but in the development of tonal painting, creating noble forms of a solemn plasticity to attain, with Titian, an ideal of ample, monumental beauty, anchored firmly in earthly reality.” The Uffizi: A Guide to the Gallery: Edizione Storti

Titian is one of the most important figures in the history of Western art. Titian was born in the town of Cadore, in Northern Italy. He came from a non-artisan family of lawyers and notaries, who taught him the value of good money management. At the age of nine, Titian moved to Venice where his Uncle Antonio encouraged his talent. He worked first in mosaics with Zuccato, then in the studios of Gentile, Bellini, and Giorgione who left a lasting impression upon him.

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Born: 1929
Gender: Male
Nationality: Chinese

Walasse Ting was born just outside of Shanghai. He moved to Pairs in 1950and remained for 11 years. His paintings can be characterised by their vivid colours particularly his use of strong shades of red. His favourite subjects include deeply sensuous women, animals such as cats, birds and fishes and a broad range of flora and fauna. He has been based in New York since 1961 making frequent trips to Europe, South America and the Far East.