Famous painters: biographies and movements | Alpha – tagged "Dessin"

Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, ship leaning in a raging sea

Rembrandt's boats and seascapes: paintings, drawings and storms

From Rembrandt's only known painted seascape to the boats in his drawings and etchings: a journey through a biblical storm, Dutch canals and a stolen work. Read more...

Christ on the Cross by Rembrandt: paintings, drawings and engravings

From the 1631 panel to The Three Crosses, Rembrandt explores the Crucifixion through painting, drawing and printmaking. Read more...

Leonardo da Vinci's horse studies: drawings, movement and Sforza monument

Why did Leonardo draw horses? Studies of movement, the unfinished Sforza monument, preserved drawings and the distinction from Milan’s modern horse. Read more...

Illustration of Renaissance drawing techniques: silverpoint, red chalk, pen and ink.

How Did Leonardo da Vinci Draw? Silverpoint, Red Chalk and Pen

Silverpoint, red chalk, black chalk, pen, ink and wash: techniques, papers and examples of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings. Read more...

Young naked woman standing, hand on chest, complete drawing by Gustav Klimt

Klimt's erotic drawings: line, model and look

Study of Gustav Klimt's erotic drawings: models, line, Japanese paper, workshop, gaze, preparatory works and independent sheets. Read more...

Gustav Klimt, head of a woman in three quarters, study for the Beethoven Frieze

Drawings by Gustav Klimt: studies, nudes and laboratory of the line

Enriched guide to Gustav Klimt's drawings: preparatory studies, nudes, line, paper, real places in Vienna, relationship to paintings and collections to explore. Read more...

Coke factory in Flénu in Borinage, drawing and watercolor by Vincent van Gogh, 1879

Van Gogh in the Borinage: the preacher who became a draftsman

In Borinage, Van Gogh arrived as a preacher to the miners and left determined to become a designer. Chronology, works, letters and real places. Read more...