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Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 (or The Painter's Father) is a 1497 oil on lime painting attributed to the German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer, now in the ...

Portrait of Barbara Dürer

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Barbara is shown wearing a red dress and a matte white bonnet which fully covers her hair, indicating her marital status.[10] Her headdress is draped with a long scarf or ...

Bagnacavallo Madonna

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Bagnacavallo Madonna is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to before 1505. It is now in the Magnani-Rocca Foundation of Traversetolo, in the province of Parma, Italy. ...

Portrait of Frederick III of Saxony

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Portrait of Frederick III of Saxony is a tempera on canvas painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, executed in 1496. Is is housed in the Gemäldegalerie of ...

Dresden Altarpiece

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Dresden Altarpiece is a triptych by German Renaissance artists Albrecht Dürer, executed between 1496 and 1497, and perhaps continued in 1503-1504. Is is housed in the ...

Portrait of Pere Tanguy

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Portrait of Pere Tanguy, painted by Vincent van Gogh is one of his three paintings of Julien Tanguy. This painting conveys a sense of serenity that Van Gogh seeks for himself. ...

Still Life with Birds' Nests

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

Van Gogh painted five paintings of birds' nests. The relatively light foreground and background of the canvas was probably applied a couple of years later. By then Van Gogh had ...