Dutch painter (b. 1642, Amsterdam, d. 1719, Amsterdam). Related Paintings of WEENIX, Jan :. | Detail of Ancient Ruins | Game Still Life Before a Landscape with Bensberg Palace (mk14) | Dead Hare and Partridges | Dead Partridge | Ancient Ruins | Related Artists:
baron grimmGerman critic. He worked as a diplomat in Paris from 1749. Influenced by the Encyclopedists, he favoured the use of the Italian style in French operas (especially those of Rameau); in the Querelle des Bouffons of the 1750s he rejected all French music in favour of Rousseau, writing the satirical tract Le petit proph??te de Boehmischbroda (1753) and other works. He was a friend to the visiting Mozart family, 1763-4 and 1778.
Karl BlechenGerman Romantic, 1798-1840
sometimes given as Karl Blechen, was a German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes, sometimes with demons and grotesque figures. Born in Cottbus, he drew the attention of prominent architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who cast him as a decorative painter. Blechen however aimed for higher work and began producing landscape paintings. In 1827 he went to Italy
PASSEROTTI, BartolomeoItalian Painter, 1529-1592