1500 First black lead pencils used in England.
1510 ‘Anatomy’ by Leonardo contains drawings from life based on corpses that Leonardo has dissected; he does not allow his work to be published.
1500–27 The High Renaissance. Three decades of creative ecstasy. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are the supernovae in a crowded firmament.
1837–40 New colours introduced into the oil painter’s palette: mauve, violet, bright green, intense yellow.
Don’t forget… Giulio Romano (c.1499–1546) was a painter and architect and was Raphael’s top aide. The religious and neurotic Mannerist pioneer Jacopo Pontormo (1494–1556) was positively influenced by Michelangelo. Agnolo Bronzino (1503–72), court painter to the Duke of Tuscany,
is now regarded to have produced stilted, overwrought, heartless work. Giovanni Battista Rosso (1494–1540) was the co-founder of Mannerism and, later, the Fontainebleau style. Francesco Parmigianino (1503–40), painter and etcher, was one of the most elegant of the Mannerists and yet… neurotic.
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1519 Leonardo da Vinci dies. In his notebooks he had written, ‘While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.’
Watching paint dry Three years to paint a portrait! That was nothing for Leonardo da Vinci. Those who watched him painting his Last Supper (1495–7) used to say that he would spend whole days at a stretch standing with folded arms looking at his work before he could bear to paint another stroke –
1848 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is officially founded. Only Holman Hunt sticks to its principles.
1848–50 The Californian Gold Rush opens up the West Coast of America.
1849 Japanese ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai dies at the age of 89. He changed his pen name 33 times during his career, giving the old name each time to a student.
1877 Ruskin ridicules Whistler, calling his work ‘a pot of paint flung in the face of the public’, Whistler sues, he wins a halfpenny in damages.
and then he would disappear off again for the day. His love life was always a bit of a mystery, and some speculate that maybe he loved the woman in the Mona Lisa painting himself.
Don’t forget… Berthe Morisot (1841–95), pupil of Jean-BaptisteCamille Corot (1796–1875) and, more importantly, of Edouard Manet (1832–83), whose brother Eugène she married. Morisot encourages Manet to paint outdoors and to experiment with brighter colours from the 1870s. We are in her debt.
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There are informative timelines and fact boxes throughout, making it educational and fascinating as well as useful.
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This colourful journal makes the perfect gift for manga fans. Packed with inspirational drawings, it features uncoloured illustrations that the keeper can colour in. It comes with a plastic cover to help to protect it for years to come.
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