He observed the Florentine vase in the hall, the Renoir painting in the library, as well as the long shelves of well-bound volumes ; ;

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Not long after, Bosschaert had married and established himself as a leading figure in the fashionable floral painting genre.

Buon fresco is painting into wet plaster, which makes a painting last a long time.

Fresco secco is painting onto dry plaster, which does not last as long.

The history of Japanese painting is a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

Other artists depicted scenes, regardless of when they occurred, in classical dress and for a long time, especially during the French Revolution, history painting often focused on depictions of the heroic male nude.

But he discovers that the new country he is sent to is in fact the country of the Tree and Forest of his great painting, now long abandoned and all but destroyed ( except for the one perfect leaf of the title which is placed in the local museum ) in the home to which he cannot return — but the Tree here and now in this place is the true realization of his vision, not the flawed and incomplete form of his painting.

After this the painting stays for a long time up to centuries in fresh and brilliant colors.

Venetian painting, in its separate " school ," pursued a separate course, represented in the long career of Titian.

Heartbroken in the knowledge that for days he was unaware of his wife's failing health and her lonely death, he moved on from painting to pursue a means of rapid long distance communication.

So closely in fact, that the famous painting of the middle-aged King Philip II was long attributed to Coello or Juan Pantoja de la Cruz.

* Panorama Mesdag houses a cylindrical 360 ° " panoramic " painting, 14 meters high by 120 meters long, depicting the sea-front at Scheveningen in the late 19th century, made by Hendrik Willem Mesdag.

( 7 ) Together with a painting of the capture of Syracuse, catapults, ballistae and all the other engines of war were carried along, as well as the ornaments of a peace of long duration and of royal opulence, ( 8 ) plate of skilfully wrought silver and bronze, other household furniture, precious garments and many renowned statues by which Syracuse had been distinguished among the foremost cities of Greece.

have a long tradition of painting the front surface of their Sousaphone bells with a variety of images.

After a short dialogue ( which would also be cut ) about how people become peers, Mountararat sings a long song about De Belville, a polymath whose talents ranged from painting to literature to inventions.

It has a rich history and can boast a long tradition of excellence in every aspect of arts, especially when it comes to literature and philosophy, classical music and ballet, architecture and painting, cinema and animation, which all had considerable influence on the world culture.

In contrast, the tradition of ink wash painting, practiced mainly by scholar-officials and especially of landscapes, developed aesthetic values depending on the individual imagination of the artist that are similar to those of the West, but long pre-dated their development there.

In 2000, the modern artist Wang Qingsong created a parody of this painting with a long, horizontal photograph of people in modern clothing making similar facial expressions, poses, and hand gestures as the original painting.

In 2009, the Portrait of a Man in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had long been associated with the followers of Velázquez ' style of painting, was cleaned and restored.

He also enjoyed painting, and claimed in his autobiography that he might have been happier as a painter than a movie star, if somewhat poorer.

" It was claimed that he stopped painting in the late 1990s.

Hippias was a man of very extensive knowledge, and he occupied himself not only with rhetorical, philosophical, and political studies, but was also well versed in poetry, music, mathematics, painting and sculpture, and he claimed some practical skill in the ordinary arts of life, for he used to boast of wearing on his body nothing that he had not made himself with his own hands, such as his seal-ring, his cloak, and shoes.

Legend states that Matsys abandoned his career as a blacksmith to woo his wife, who found painting to be a more romantic profession, though Karel van Mander claimed this to be false, and the real reason was a sickness during which he was too weak to work at the smithy and instead decorated prints for the carnival celebrations.

Three weeks later it was stolen from Agnew's gallery, a theft that was highly publicised at the time, and for years the newspapers printed stories about claimed sightings of the painting.

The Wall Street financier J. P. Morgan immediately travelled to England to obtain the painting and is claimed to have paid $ 150, 000 for it.

Though there are no longer any supporters of the " Pan Giorgionismus " which a century ago claimed for Giorgione nearly every painting of the time that at all resembles his manner, there are still, as then, exclusive critics who reduce to half a dozen the list of extant pictures which they will admit to be actually by this master.

He also says that they possessed a portrait of Christ, a painting they claimed had been made by Pilate during his lifetime, which they honoured along with images of Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle " in the manner of the Gentiles ".

As the painting is dated 1585, the year Marlowe was 21, it has been claimed as a portrait of the playwright himself.

Action painting was clearly influenced by the surrealist emphasis on automatism which ( also ) influenced by psychoanalysis claimed a more direct access to the subconscious mind.

The third painting depicts a scene which it is claimed "... depicts ritual murders committed in Sandomierz by Jews on Christian children.

P-Orridge claimed initially that he was deported, although later admitted that he decided not to return to England from Kathmandu, where he and his family had been on holiday after selling an Austin Osman Spare painting to Chris Stein from Blondie for $ 10, 000 US dollars which financed the trip.

His concentration on the object itself marked a step towards modern connoisseuship, and in his Mémoire ( 1755 ) on the method of encaustic painting, the ancient technique of painting with wax as a medium mentioned by Pliny the Elder, he claimed to have rediscovered the method.

In China Eggs, an unpublished autobiography that she wrote in 1955, Sage stated that “ these were the happiest days of my life ,”, and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her “ perspective idea of distance and going away .” Nonetheless, in later years Sage usually claimed that she was self-taught, perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that “ she felt as if she had studied with no one .”

A painting of a comedian who was an acquaintance of the British painter George Clint — an artist whose style resembled Peale's, and who claimed the picture as his own — was examined by the National Portrait Gallery of London in 1914.

He claimed to have invented a new genre of portrait landscape, which he achieved by starting a painting with a view such as a favourite part of the city, and then depicting a person in the foreground.

Subsequently, Keulemans experienced further incidents increasing his belief in the supernatural, in particular which he claimed could be awakened via the painting of a bird's eye.

His epic portrayal of The State Procession of the Prince of Wales into Jaipur in 1876 is claimed to be the third largest painting in the world .< ref >

Orazio also claimed that Tassi stole a painting of Judith from the Gentileschi household.

Most famous for his " black " or " ultimate " paintings, he claimed to be painting the " last paintings " that anyone can paint.

It has been claimed that Shakespeare's friend Richard Burbage ( 1567 – 1619 ) painted the Chandos portrait, but the first known reference to the painting is in a note by George Vertue, who states that it was painted by John Taylor, a respected member of the Painter-Stainers ' company who may also have been the same John Taylor who acted with the Children of Paul's.

Hoving appeared in Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock ?, a documentary by Harry Moses about a purported " lost " Jackson Pollock painting, in which he, through a series of memorable interviews, claimed that true painting connoisseurs are the only ones who can identify the real from the fake ( fingerprints and forensic evidence are secondary ).