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Adriaen van Gaesbeeck

Dutch artist active in Leiden and Amsterdam; known for his portraits, religious paintings and genre pieces; born Leiden (1621), died 1650.

Joannes [Jan] Galle – see Martin de Vos

Flemish engraver, publisher and print dealer; although various engravings have been attributed to him, he was probably only their publisher; born Antwerp (1600), died Antwerp (1676); son of Theodor Galle.

Fernando Gallego

Spanish painter, generally regarded as Hispano-Flemish is style; worked throughout Castile and Extremadura, most notably in Ciudad Rodrigo, Plasencia, Toro, and Zamora; his paintings are confused with those of Francisco Gallego (possibly his older brother) with whom he shared a workshop; most of his output consists of small panels of religious scenes, often used to comprise altarpieces, or retablos – a notable exception is Sky of Salamanca, located at the University of Salamanca, a vast ceiling mural which depicts astronomical scenes and constellations probably born in Salamanca (c.1440), died 1507.

Lattanzio Gambara (ca 1530-1574)

Italian painter, frescoist and draughtsman; many of his works are in the turgid Mannerist style, filled with large figures and complicated foreshortening; pupil of Antonio Campi and of Romanino; born Brescia (ca 1530), died Brescia (1574).

Giuseppe Gambarini, (1680-1725), Italian

Italian painter; during his short career he gained prominence in Bologna as a specialist in scenes of working-class domestic life; born Bologna (1680), died Bologna (1725).

Guy Gambier (20th century), French

Belgian portraitist, poster designer and editor.

John Gamble (1847-1911), English

Silvestro Ganassi del Fontego (1492-mid-16th century), Italian

Italian (Venetian) musician and author of two important treatises on instrumental technique, Opera intitulata Fontegara (1535) and Regola Rubertina (1542) and Lettione Seconda (1543).

Gaetano Gandolfi

Italian painter, draughtsman, sculptor and etcher; a successful artist, whose oeuvre includes paintings, terracotta sculptures, etchings and a huge number of drawings; born S Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, (1734), died Bologna (1802); brother of Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728-1781).

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor; painted frescoes, altarpieces and mythological scenes; his vast output of drawings includes both religious and mythological subjects and studies from the nude model; born San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna 1728, died Ravenna 1781; brother of Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802).

Jean Ganière

French engraver of religious and historic subjects as well as genre pieces; also a printer and editor; born ? 1615, died Paris (1666).

Raffaellino del Garbo

Italian artist; trained in Filippino Lippi's workshop and assisted in Lippi's great fresco decorations in the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome, from 1488-1492; his own paintings and frescoes of religious subjects employed something of Botticelli's technique of expression and also his palette; born Florence (1479), died Florence (1524 or 1527).

Jan-Antoon [Joannes Antonius] Garemijn [Garemyn]

Flemish painter and draughtsman who adopted the graceful Italian style and the mannered drawing-room scenes typical of the French masters Antoine Watteau and François Boucher; born Bruges (1712), died Bruges (1799).

Nicolas de Gargillière (1656-1746), French

Thomas Garner

British engraver and printmaker; much of his work depicts subjects of local interest and portraits of local celebrities; he was employed to engrave several plates for the Art Journal, and it is by these that he is best known; born Birmingham (1789), died Birmingham (1868).

Il Garofalo [Benvenuto Tisi]

Italian painter and frescoist of the Ferrarese school; worked in Rome where he came under the influence of Raphael; from 1550 till his death he was blind; born Ferrara (ca 1481), died Ferrara (1559).

Bernardino Gatti (il Sojaro)

Italian painter whose style was strongly influenced by Correggio although it was blended with Lombard archaisms; he later refined his style to achieve a somewhat weak sentimentality; born Pavia (ca 1495), died Cremona (1576).

Paul Gauguin

French painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramicist; his style developed from Impressionism through a brief cloisonnist phase towards a highly personal brand of Symbolism, which sought to combine and contrast an idealized vision of primitive Polynesian culture with the sceptical pessimism of an educated European; his use of non-naturalistic colour and formal distortion for expressive ends was widely influential on early 20th-century avant-garde artists; born Paris (1848), died Atuona, Marquesas Islands (1903).

Giovanni Battista Gaulli [called il Baciccio, Baciccia]

Italian painter; a celebrated artist of the Roman High Baroque; his frescoes, altarpieces, mythological scenes and portraits are distinguished by the warm, glowing colour that reveals his Genoese origins; born Gênes (1639), died Rome (1709).

Martin [Marten] Joseph [Jozef] Geeraerts, Flemish

Flemish painter of portraits and historical subjects, perhaps best known for his grisailles; born Anvers (1707), died Anvers (1791).

Walter Geikie

Scottish painter and printmaker; deaf and dumb from the age of two, he was an early student of Braidwood who probably encouraged him to take up art; first exhibited in 1815 and contributed to exhibitions in Edinburgh regularly thereafter, becoming an Associate of the Scottish Academy in 1831 and an Academician in 1834; born Edinburgh (1795), died Edinburgh (1837).

Claude Gellée – see Claude

Benedetto Gennari II

Italian artist who spent much of his career at the English Court in London and later Paris; painter of portraits, mythological scenes, devotional scenes and altarpieces; his portraits display an intriguing eccentricity of style and iconography; born Cento near Ferrara (1633), died Bologna (1715); brother of the painter Cesare Gennari (1637–1688) and nephew of Guercino (1591-1666), with whom he trained.

Abraham Genoels

Flemish baroque painter of portraits and landscapes, and an engraver; in Paris he worked for Charles le Brun and for the Gobelins Manufactory; born Antwerp (1640), died Antwerp (1723).

Artemisia Gentileschi (Artemisia Lomi) & Orazio Gentileschi (Orazio Lomi)

Italian painters in a highly individual Caravaggesque style; Orazio was born Pisa (ca 1563) and died London (1639). His daughter Artemisia was born Rome (1593) and died Naples 1652/1653.

Orazio Gentileschi, (Orazio Lomi)

Italian painter whose works are noted for their harmonious colour, finely handled drapery, and clear contours; follower of the revolutionary baroque painter Caravaggio; active in Florence, Rome, the Marches, Genoa and England; born Pisa (ca 1563), died London (1639); father of Artemisia Gentileschi (Artemisia Lomi).

David Gentleman (1930-), English

One of Britain's leading artists and designers; his work is wide-ranging and includes lithographs, watercolours and many outstanding designs for postage stamps, symbols, posters and murals; his own books of watercolours and drawings of countries and places around the world reveal a passionate feeling and interest in architecture and landscape; born London, 1930.

Konstantin Gerhardinger (1888-1970)

Prominent German painter active in Cheiemgau who fell foul of the Nazi authorities to such an extent that Hitler himself ordered that Gerhadinger's name never again be mentioned in a German newspaper or magazine and that his art be forever banned from all exhibition. Goebbels acted accordingly, instructing the Visual Arts Chamber to designate Gerhardinger persona non grata; his subjects included representational landscapes, still-lifes and portraits; born Munich (1888), died Toerwang (1970).

Gerhart

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, Spinello di Luca Spinelli [Spinello Aretino] & Lorenzo di Niccolò Gerini

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini was an Italian painter active in Florence and also Paris; collaborated on a number of frescos with other artists; active from 1368 until his death in 1415. Spinello di Luca Spinelli was an Italian painter; a leading exponent of the late Giottesque style who painted murals and altarpieces noteworthy for their vigorous narrative sense; born Arezzo (ca 1346), died Arezzo (ca 1410). Lorenzo di Niccolò Gerini was an Italian painter, active in Florence from 1392-1440.

Salomon Gessner

Swiss painter, etcher, poet and bookseller; his first sketches from nature, inspired by the pastoral lyrics of Barthold Hinrich Brockes (1680–1747), were published as illustrations to his Idyllen (Zurich, 1756); born Zürich (1730), died Zürich (1788).

Ethan Gettman

Contemporary USAmerican artist and graphic designer working in the Boston area.

Andreas Geyer (18th century), German

Jacques [Jacob] de Gheyn II

Dutch draughtsman, engraver and painter; born Antwerp (1565), died The Hague (1629); father of Jacques de Gheyn III (ca 1596-1641).

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome where he was painter to the Papal Court; he specialized in religious themes, decorative fresco cycles, landscapes and theatrical displays; known for his frescoes in the Villa Falconieri of Frascati; born Rome (1674), died Rome (1755).

Ridolfo (Bigordi) Il Ghirlandaio

Italian painter of the Florentine school; born Florence (1483), died Florence (1525); son of the painter, mosaicist and goldsmith Domenico Ghilrandaio (1448/9 - 1494).

Giorgio Ghisi

Italian engraver and jeweller from Mantua who also worked in Antwerp and in France; as well as prints he made damascened metalwork; he was areproductive engraver, that is one basing his works on paintings by other artists, although he often elaborated backgrounds with landscapes of his own invention, and added lavish foliage; born Mantua (1520), died Mantua (1582); brother of painter and engraver Teodoro Ghisi (1536–1601).

Felice Giani

Italian neoclassical painter and designer whose works are known for their energy and intensity; born Sebastiano Curone, Alessandria (ca 1758), died Rome (1823).

Antonio Gianlisi, the younger

Italian painter of decorative still-lifes; born 1644, died Cremona (1727).

Corrado Giaquinto

Italian Rococo painter working mostly in Naples; his work includes religious subjects, mythology and allegory; born Molfeta (1700), died Naples (1765).

Grinling Gibbons

British sculptor, widely regarded as England’s foremost wood-carver; known for his decorative work at Blenheim and Hampton Court palaces and at St Paul's Cathedral; his carved relief work in wood depicts a wide range of ornamental motifs, including flowers, fruits and musical instruments; born Rotterdam (1648), died London (1721).

Aleksander Gierymski

Polish artist; an isolated figure who followed a path leading from naturalistic scenes portraying the life of the Warsaw poor to an individual search in the domain of light and colour, close to but never imitative of Impressionism; born Warsaw (1850), died Rome (1901).

Claude Gillot

French draughtsman, printmaker and painter who illustrated religious and other elevated subjects, but specialized in theatre and genre scenes, as well as bacchanals and designs for decorations; his principal source of inspiration was the popular theatre (he is said to have run a puppet theatre, to have written plays and once to have been in charge of sets, machinery and costume for the opera); amongst his pupils was Antoine Watteau; born Langres (1673), died Paris (1722).

James Gillray

English draughtsman and engraver who engraved over 1500 prints and invented, almost single-handed, the genre of British political caricature; in his lifetime he was feared and admired, but his reputation waned in the strait-laced moral climate that succeeded the Regency; born London (1756), died London (1815).

Lodovico Gimignani (1643-1679)

Italian painter active in Rome, known principally by his altarpieces and church frescoes; born Rome (1542), died Zagaralo (1679); son of painter Giacinto Gimignani (1611–1681).

Luca Giordano [Lucas Jordán]

Italian artist, also active in Spain; extremely skilled at copying the styles of other master artists, he worked rapidly enough to be nicknamed Luca Fa Presto (Luca the Quick); born Naples (1632), died Naples (1705).

Giorgione [born Giorgio Barbarelli, also known as Castelfranco Veneto and as Giorgio da Castelfranco]

Italian frescoist and painter of portraits and literary, religious and mythological subjects, who was one of the initiators of a High Renaissance style in Venetian art, a master of poetic mood created through idealized form, colour, and light; born Castelfranco (1477/8), died Venice (1510).

Giotto (de Bondone)

Italian painter and designer whose reputation was unrivalled as the best painter and as an innovator, superior to all his predecessors; the first post-Classical artist whose fame extended beyond his lifetime and native city; born ? Vespignano, near Florence (1267-75), died Florence (1337).

Giovanello d'Italia (op. 1504-1531), Italian

Girolamo da Santa Croce

Italian scuptor and painter of religious subjects; a member of a large family of artists, he was a student of Gentile Bellini; he worked mainly for provincial churches in teh Vento and later in Istria and Dalmatia; born Santa Croce, near Bergamo (1480-1485), died Venice (1556); father of painter Francesco di Girolamo and grandfather of Pietro Paolo.

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts = Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts

Nicolaes de Giselaer

Dutch artist; born Dordrecht (1583), died ? Utrecht (1645).

Steven Gjertson

Contemporary American artist and a member of the first cohesive group of Classical Realists that studied in the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis; has established a considerable reputation for elegant floral still lifes and plein air landscapes; much of his current work is figurative, either intimate genre paintings of his family and friends or more complicated works with biblical themes or symbolic treatments of contemporary issues; he is the author of many articles and essays on art; his work has appeared on the cover of numerous books and periodicals; born Minneapolis (1949).

E.-J. Glairon-Mondet

French engraver active in Paris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; provided several plates for the Galerie du Palais Royal …, a collection of 355 etchings and engravings of paintings in the collection of the Duc d'Orléans, a cousin of Louis XVI, who died during the French Revolution; also etched or engraved paintings by Lagrenée (probably Louis-Jean-François, the elder, 1725-1805), Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755-1832), Dietrich (possibly Christian-Wilhelm-Ernst Dietrich, 1712-1774), and Jan le Ducq (1629/30-1676 – 1629/30-1676; Glairon-Mondet also provided etchings or engravings for a deluxe edition of the Oeuvres de Racine, published by Pierre Didot.

Johannes [or Jan] 'Polidoro' [Polidor, Polidoor or Polydore] Glauber

Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker of German descent; copied Italian paintings for the Amsterdam art dealer Gerrit Uylenburgh; travelled extensively in Italy where he became a member of the third generation of Dutch Italianates in Rome, receiving the nickname ‘Polidor’ in recognition of his artistic debt to the landscapes of Polidoro da Caravaggio; born Utrecht (1646), died Schoonhoven, near Gouda (1726).

Friedrich Christian Glume

German sculptor to Frederich the Great; created works for the Hermenatlanten, Sanssouci and the Marstalls; born 1714, died 1752; brother of the sculptor Carl Philipp Glume (1724-1776).

Imero Gobbato

Contemporary Italian-born neo-impressionistic painter, etcher, engraver, book illustrator, yacht designer, and a musician; lives and works in Camden, Maine (USA); born northern Italy (1923).

Tom Godin

Contemporary Canadian artist. Artist's web-site.

Hugo van der Goes

Flemish painter of altarpieces and panels for public buildings; entered a monastery where he suffered mental collapse; active in Ghent and in the Roode Clooster near Brussels; born in Ghent (ca 1440), died Roode Clooster (1482).

Hans-Peter Goettsche

Contemporary German sculptor working in Berlin-Koepenick.

Jacob Gole

Netherlandish engraver and printmaker; born c. 1660 died 1737.

Chris Gollon

Contemporary English artist; his works range from classic surrealism to his own concepts in cubism; other influences include the German painters of the twenties and thirties as well as an interest in film, especially the work of Italian film director, Federico Fellini; born London (1953). Web Page.

Hendrick [Hendrik] Goltzius [Gols, Goltius, Goltz, Golzius]

Dutch draughtsman, printmaker, print publisher and painter; his ability to emulate the style and technique of different artists and to adapt to current trends earned him distinction as a ‘Proteus of changing shapes’; born Mülbrecht [now Bracht-am-Niederrhein] (1558), died Haarlem (1617)

Thomas Sword Good

English artist who specialized in small highly finished oil paintings which usually showed one or two figures, often seated, in interiors; portrayed friends or professional models but introduced studio props and contrived incidents as a means of creating narrative interest; born Berwick-upon-Tweed (1789), died Berwick-upon-Tweed (1872).

R.C. Gorman

Prolific Native American artist who has practically become an institution of his own; dubbed by the New York Times as "The Picasso of American Indian Art," he is most famous for his oil pastels, lithographs, silkscreens, and drawings of Navajo women. Gorman also sculpts, working first in clay and then sending his work for bronze casting in Tesuque, NM; born Navajo reservation, near Chinle, Arizona; lives and works in Taos, New Mexico where he owns the Navajo Gallery.

Jan Gossaert or Jenni Gossart, also called Jan Malbodius = Jan Mabuse

Pam Gossner

Contemporary USAmerican pastel painter working in Chatham, New Jersey. Artist's web-site.

Thomas Cooper Gotch

English painter of portraits, landscape and allegorical and realistic works; best known for his pictures of children in a highly decorative and often Symbolist fashion; born Kettering (1854), died Newlyn (1931).

Gottfried Bernhard Götz [Göz; Goez; Goetz]

Moravian painter and engraver, active in southern Germany; born Velehrad, Moravia (1708), died Augsburg (1774).

Jakob Götzenberger

German artist, one of three who painted the frescoes of the Great Hall of the University of Bonn; later, he was appointed court painter and Director of the gallery at Mannheim, a position he resigned from due to personal misconduct; he then lived in England, where he worked as a portrait painter and frescoist, providing murals at Bridgewater House and Northumberland House; born Heidelberg (1802), died Darmstadt (1866).

Gottfried-Bernhard Götz & Joseph Anton Feuchtmeyer

Joseph Anton Feuchtmeyer was a German painter and sculptor; born 1696, died 1770.

Gottfried-Bernhard Götz & Johann Chrysostomus Winck

Johann Chrysostomus Winck was a German artist; born Eichstätt (1725), died Eichstätt (1795).

Anton [Antoine] Goubau [Goubeau] I

Flemish painter active in Italy; known primarily as a painter of market scenes situated in Roman or Mediterranean settings and often decorated with many tiny figures; apart from townscapes, he also made a number of religious compositions, mostly intended for churches in Antwerp; born Antwerp (1616), died Antwerp (1698).

Gilliam van der Gouwen

Dutch engraver and mapmaker, active in Anvers and Amsterdam, 1669-1713.

Francicso (José) de Goya [y Lucientes) (1746-1828), Spanish

Spanish painter, draughtsman and printmaker; considered by some to be the Father of Modern Art; the most important Spanish artist of the last quarter of the 18th and first quarter of the 19th centuries, he served three generations of Spanish kings; stylistically his work spans the period from the late Rococo to Romanticism and, at the last, anticipates Impressionism; his work includes some 700 paintings, 900 drawings and almost 300 prints; born Fuendetodos (1746), died Bordeaux (1828).

Carl [Charles Grav] von Graimberg [Graf Charles de Graimberg] (1774-1865), German

Antiveduto Gramatica [Grammatica, della Grammatica]

Italian artist born in an inn, an inconvenience that had been foreseen (‘antiveduto’) by his father and led to his unusual name; a painter of small-scale works, mainly on copper, his prolific production of devotional paintings, portraits and copies of portraits won him swift success; his early portraits included highly popular copies of a series of Famous Men then at the Villa Medici; born ? Rome (1571), died Rome (1626).

Louis Grandet (2nd half of 17th century)

Niccolás Granello [Granelo]

Italian painter active in Spain; his only surviving work is in the Escorial where, with his half-brother, he frescoed the vaults of the chapter rooms and the sacristy (1581-1584); born Genoa (ca 1550), died Escorial (1593).

Blasco de Grañen [Master of Lanaja]

Spanish artist identified as the Master of Lanaja, named after his Madonna painting from the village Lanaja in Huesca province (Aragon); one of a number of interesting 15th century artists whose work is characterised by more effective representation than the images of the Italo-Gothic style, with their decidedly decorative flavour; active 1422–1459.

William James Grant

English artist who painted sacred and historical subjects and drew illustrations to poetry; born Hackney (1829), died 1866.

Emilio Grau-Sala

Spanish artist; born Barcelona (1911), died 1975; father of the painter Julián Grau Santos (1937-).

Francine Gravel

Contemporary Canadian painter and printmaker living and working in Kelowna, British Columbia, also a poet; her work employs music as a recurent theme and adorns coins CD covers, concert programmes, book and magazine covers; born Montreal (1994). Artists Home Page.

Pieter (Fransz.) de Grebber

Dutch painter, an amateur poet and composer; a pioneer among the Haarlem Classicists; painted portraits and genre scenes in the tradition of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, but most of his subjects are religious scenes; born Haarlem (ca 1600), died Haarlem (1652-4); son of the painter and art dealer Frans Pietersz. de Grebber (1573-1643),

Doménicos Theotocópoulos, called 'El Greco'

Greek painter who studied with Titian in Venice before settling in Spain, famous for his highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style; active in Candia (Crete), Venice, Rome and Toledo; born Iráklion, Crete [then a possession of the Republic of Venice] (1541), died Toledo (1614).

Stammatico Greco (15th century), Italian

Thomas Greeting

English royal violinist who supplemented his income by teaching music to amateurs; he published The Pleasant Companion, or new Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet; Pepys engaged him to teach his wife an 'art that would be easy and pleasant for her' (1 March 1666-1667); in the following year Greeting sent the Duke of Buckingham's musicians to Pepys's house to play dance music; active 1661-1682.

Gregorio di Cecco (di Lucca) [Gregorio da Siena (fl. 1389-1423), Italian (Sienese)

Italian painter of the Sienese School; painted book covers for biccherne (Sienese official records) and altarpieces; born Siena (? 1389-95), died Siena (1424).

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French draughtsman and painter of genre scenes, historical, mythological and allegorical themes and portraits; bust-length têtes d'expression were a favourite subject of Greuze which were widely sought after by his contemporaries; born Tournus, Saône-et-Loire (1725), died Louvre (1805).

Fritz Griebel

German book illustrator and tapestry maker (1899-1976).

Elo Grieguez

Contemporary Spanish painter whose work includes figurative art, landscapes and botanical subjects; active 1990-2012 et suiv. Artist's web-site.

Jaccques de Grief = Jaccques de Claeuw

A. de Grieksche (18th century), Netherlands

Hans Baldung Grien – see Baldung

Gerhard Grimm

German painter, printmaker, art historian and teacher; he drew his inspiration from a variety of topics of all kinds people, animals, sports and dance, and thus arose a number of woodcuts and drawings with themes from these areas; his depiction of events, events and situations could be touching, emotional and amusing, but also ironically detached; born Würtemberg (1927), died Reutlingen (1998).

Samuel Hieronymous Grimm

Swiss painter of topographical watercolours and draughtsman, specialising in landscape and caricature; he recorded historical events in the kind of detail that might otherwise have gone unreported; the British Library possesses 2,662 drawings in 12 volumes by this artist, covering many of the counties of England and a further 886 watercolours, in seven volumes, dedicated to the county of Sussex; born Burgdorf (1733), died London (1794).

(Jean) Alexis Grimou [Grimoud, Grimoux]

French painter who specialised in portraits; born Argenteuil, near Paris (1678), died Paris (1733).

George Grosz

German painter and draughtsman prominent in the Berlin DADA group and in 1920's a leader of Neue Sachlichkeit movement in the 1920s; invited to USA in 1932 where he settled in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1938; primarily a caricaturist with a strong bent for social satire through which he gave vent to his disgust at the depravity of the Prussian military caste and the gluttony, and degraded sensuality of a decaying society; in America his work included romantic landscapes and still-lifes, sometimes with apoccalyptic and cacatopian visions; born Berlin (1893), died Berlin (1959).

Johann Friedrich Gruber [Grueber]

German painter of vanitas subjects; (1620-1681).

Matthias [Mathis] Grünewald [Gothart or Neithardt]

German painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century; Only ten paintings (several consisting of many panels) and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea in the Baltic on their way to Sweden as war booty; his paintings are known for their dramatic forms, vivid colors, and depiction of light; born ? Würzburg (ca 1470), died Halle (1528 or 1531); the name Grünewald was a fabrication by a 19th-century biographer.

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala

17th century full-blooded native Peruvian chronicler whose history of his country, Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno (1616), runs to 800 pages and 400 illustrations; born Huamanga, today's Ayacucho (ca 1535), died p. 1615.

Jacopo Guarana

Italian artist who modelled his painting on great Venetian decorative artists of the 18th century, especially that of Tieopolo; born Venice (1720), died Venice (1808).

Il Guercino da Cento [original name Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]

Italian painter and draughtsman whose frescoes freshly exploited the illusionist ceiling, making a profound impact on 17th-century Baroque decoration; his paintings show a command of subtle effects of light and dark, with the figures revealing a wide variety of gesture and facial expression; born Cento near Ferrara (1591), died Bologna (1666); uncle and teacher of the painter Benedetto Gennari II (1633-1715).

François Guérin (op. 1751-1791), French

Giovanni Guerra

Italian painter and draughtsman in the late Mannerist style; born Modena (1544), died Rome (1618).

F. Guidotti (late 18th century), French

Dieudonné-Barthélémy Guibal (1699-1757)

Celebrated French sculptor who spent much of his life in the service of Dukes Léopold and Stanislas for whom he made statues and fountains at various of their chateaux and churches at Lenéville and Nancy; born Nimes (1699), died (1757).

Bonnie Diane Gummow

Contemporary USAmerican artist and illustrator.

Johann Eberlin von Günzberg

German theologian who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets; born Kleinkötz near Günzburg in Bavaria (ca 1470), died Lautershausen (1533).

Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts (Gijsbrechts)

Flemish painter; a shadowy and enigmatic figure who cultivated the art of trompe l'oeil still-life with a passion bordering on obsession; his works include subjects ranging across all aspects of painting in this genre: musical instruments, cabinets of curiosities, studio walls covered in Vanitas-pictures and artist equipment, hunting scenes with hanging dead game or hunting gear, and so-called porte-lettres – racks where letters, documents and other items are placed behind tapes which are fastened horizontally and vertically to a wooden board; the latter are among the most ambitious trompe-l’oeil works ever made; probably born in Antwerp (?1610), died (?1675); possibly a relative of Franciscus Gysbrechts (op. ca 1672-1677).

Franciscus Gysbrechts

Dutch artist, active Leiden (ca 1672-1677); possibly a relative of Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts (fl.1668-1672).

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