Artist Index — Porkopolis Art Museum

About Our Index

Due to artists’ different nationalities and customs of writing their names, something that seems like a last name — “da Besozzo” or “van Orley” — may not be.

To avoid confusion here, artists are listed alphabetically by the last word in their title or name. So “da Besozzo” would be in the “B” section, “van Orley” in “O”.

Where it is applicable, individuals who are know only by a definitive work — “Master of Saint Veronica” — as well as those named but anonymous works — the “Luttrell Psalter” — are listed here with their familiar sobriquets.

This indexing system was adapted from the CGFA Virtual Art Museum of Carol Gerten–Jackson.

Featured Artist

Feature Artist

Thomas Couture
A Realist
(1865)

“This canvas by the French artist Thomas Couture can be interpreted as a satire on Realism. Couture was critical of this new direction in painting, which preferred everyday and even entirely trivial subjects to literary or historical themes. This Realist “lowers” himself to painting the portrait of a pig, the quintessential symbol of stupidity. Inconsequential objects hang on the walls; the painter, seated on a sculpted head of the Greek god Zeus, displays scant regard for classical culture. Couture himself usually painted works whose subjects were somewhat more elevated....” continued»

Artist Index

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

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Kuroda, Seiki

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Zurbarán, Francisco de