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Giotto di Bondone

Italian painter and architect from Florence.

Person, Architecture, Art, Italy

Thomas Girtin

Water-colour painter.  Born Great Bandy Leg Walk, Southwark but brought up in the City.  Worked alongside Turner as a copyist 1794 to 1797.  Toured Britain painting local views.  1802 Girtin painte...

Person, Art

Glasgow School of Art

Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design. It changed to its current name in 1853. The main building, shown in the picture, in Renfrew Street was designed by Charles Rennie Mackint...

Group, Architecture, Art, Education, Scotland

Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze

Painter, lover of the arts and benefactor of Regents Park.  Born London.  1907 he bought Grove House (sometimes Nuffield House) in Regent's Park, near St John's Wood church.  Set up the Constance F...

Person, Art

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA

Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...

Person, Art, History, Austria

Frederick Goodall

Painter. Born 20 Arlington Street. Following visits to Egypt his work often featured that country, and he was very successful, enabling him to employ R. N. Shaw to build Grim's Dyke as his home. A ...

Person, Art, Egypt

Amy Goodman

Sculptor.

Person, Art, Sculpture

Spencer Gore

Spencer Frederick Gore, painter. Born Epsom, Surrey, son of the sportsman also called Spencer Gore. Clearly a clubable man he was a member of the New English Art Club, founding member of the Fitzro...

Person, Art

Grafitti Life

Group, Art

Duncan Grant

Painter and designer. Born Scotland but brought up in India, Burma and Rugby School. Cousin and for a time lover of Lyton Strachey, through whom he met and joined the Bloomsbury Group. He also had ...

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Scotland