NIKOLAJ See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM See also:

• NIKOLAJ ABRAHAM ABILDGAARD (1744—1809)

ABILDGAARD (1744—1809)  , called " the See also:

• FATHER

Father of Danish See also:

• PAINTING

Painting," was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, the son of Soren See also:

• ABILDGAARD, NIKOLAJ ABRAHAM (1744—1809)

Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute . He formed his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style on that of See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

Claude and of See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas Poussin; and was a See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold theorist, inspired not by nature but by See also:

• ART

art . As a technical painter he attained remarkable success, his See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone being very harmonious and even, but the effect, to a foreigner's See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye, is rarely interesting . His See also:

• WORKS

works are scarcely known out of Copenhagen, where he won an immense fame in his own See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation . He was the founder of the Danish school of painting, and the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of See also:

• THORWALDSEN, BERTEL (1770.1844)

Thorwaldsen and See also:

• ECKERSBERG, KRISTOFFER (1783-1853)

Eckersberg .