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This project is on History Link Old Masters The great painters from mid 13th century to mid 19th century For great painters from mid 19th Century - see: New and Modern Masters ONLY public profiles , please: • GOTHIC - INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC - PROTO-RENAISSANCE Cimabue (Cenni di Peppi) (1240-1302). Frescos in the Church of S. Francesco in Assisi . Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-1319...
Stowe Landscape Gardens & Monuments, Buckinghamshire, England===The history of the gardens==In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely renowned for its magnificent gardens created by Lord Cobham. The Landscape Garden was created in three main phases, showing...
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, England= Chicheley Hall, in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire , is an English country house built in the first quarter of the 18th century in the Baroque style.===Earlier buildings===An ancient manor house on the site belonged to the Pagnell family of Newport Pagnell, but was given by them to the church. Cardinal Wolsey gave it to Christ Church, Oxford, but it reverted...
Female Artists through the centuries= Female artists have been involved in making art in most times and places. Often certain media are associated with women, particularly textile arts; however, these gender roles in art change in different cultures and communities. Many art forms dominated by women have been historically dismissed from the art historical canon as craft, as opposed to fine art....