German Northern Renaissance Painter, active 1460-1480  Related Paintings of MASTER of the Life of the Virgin :. | The Virgin of Mercy | The Birth of Mary | Triptych of Canon Gerhard ter Streegen de Monte | Christ on the Cross with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene | The Virgin of M |
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Bernardo Lopez
1801-1874 Spanish Bernardo Lopez Gallery
BOELEMA DE STOMME, Maerten
Dutch painter (active 1642-1664 in Haarlem)
Christian Daniel Rauch
1777 Arolsen-1857 Dresden,was a German sculptor. Rauch was born at Arolsen in the Principality of Waldeck. His parents were poor and unable to place him under efficient masters. His first instructor taught him little else than the art of sculpting gravestones, and Professor Ruhl of Kassel could not give him much more. A wider field of improvement opened up before him when he removed to Berlin in 1797; but he was obliged to earn a livelihood by becoming a royal lackey, and to practise his art in spare hours. Queen Louisa of Prussia, surprising him one day in the act of modeling her features in wax, sent him to study at the Academy of Art. Not long afterwards, in 1804, Count Sandrecky gave Rauch the means to complete his education at Rome, where Wilhelm von Humboldt, Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen befriended him. Among other works, he executed bas-reliefs of "Hippolytus and Phaedra," "Mars and Venus wounded by Diomede," and a "Child praying." In 1811 Rauch was commissioned to execute a monument for Queen Louisa of Prussia.