Art History Reference: Drawing From Life- The Funnel

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880. 

Born: June 8, 1837, Ostrogozhsk, Russia

Died: April 6, 1887

Period: Realism

Education: Imperial Academy of Arts

Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. Wikipedia

Born: August 5, 1844, Chuhuiv, Ukraine

Died: September 29, 1930, Viipuri Province

Periods: Realism, ImpressionismSpouse: Vera Repina (m. 1872)
Nationality: Finnish, Russian

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. 

Born: April 6, 1483, Urbino, Italy

Died: April 6, 1520, Rome, Italy

Periods: High Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance, Italian Renaissance painting, Mannerism

Known for: Painting, Architecture

Structures: St. Peter’s Basilica, Villa Madama, Chigi Chapel