Claude Monet (Nov. 14, 1840, Paris, Dec. 5, 1926, Giverny) French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career, and it is fitting that one of his pictures–Impression: Sunrise (Mus
Mary Stevenson Cassatt life and paintings Video. A selection of the best paintings with the music of Noa, live is beautiful, the BSO of Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita
Today a video of the best paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the greatest impressionist painters of history.
(1841-1919) Renoir was born in Limoges on February 25, 1841. As a child he worked in a porcelain factory in Paris, painting designs on china; at 17 he copied paintings on fans, lampshades, and blinds. He studied painting formally in 1862-63 at the academy of the Swiss painter Charles Gabriel Gleyre in Paris.
Renoir’s early work was influenced by two French artists, Claude Monet in his treatment of light and the romantic painter Eug