Chalk

A fine-grained limestone or soft, earthy form of calcium carbonate; used chiefly in crayons, paint, linoleum, and as a pigment and abrasive.

Basics Works of Art

Chalk

A fine-grained limestone or soft, earthy form of calcium carbonate; used chiefly in crayons, paint, linoleum, and as a pigment and abrasive.

Basics Works of Art

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Preparatory drawing during the Italian renaissance, an introduction

Works of Art

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, Figures Walking in a Parkland
Getty Conversations

c. 1783–1800

Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl

c. 1510–11

Wifredo Lam, The Eternal Presence

1944

Johannes Stradanus and Theodoor Galle, “The Discovery of America”

1587–89

Keith Haring, Subway Drawings

1984

David, Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

1787

Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze

1902

Leonardo, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon)

1499–1500

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