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Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts ... read more

Alfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British ... read more

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, ... read more

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy ... read more

Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. In 1753 he started studying painting at the art school of Johann Ulrich Schellenberg. ... read more

Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of ... read more

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, ... read more

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a ... read more

Canaletto was an Italian painter of landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.

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Michelangelo Merisi was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 and 1610. His paintings, which combine ... read more

Charles Le Brun was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant ... read more

Diego Vélazquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters ... read more

Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief that incorporated ... read more

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, ... read more

El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his ... read more

Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive ... read more

Fra' Filippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento. He was born in Florence. In 1420 he was admitted to the ... read more

Fra Angelico was an Early Italian Renaissance painter. He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole and Fra Giovanni ... read more

Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and ... read more

Francisco Goya was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. ... read more

François Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, ... read more

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily ... read more

Giorgione was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over 30. Giorgione ... read more

Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a ... read more

Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was ... read more

Guercino was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism ... read more

Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the ... read more

Hubert Robert was a French painter, noted for his landscape paintings and picturesque depictions of ruins. He was born in Paris in 1733. ... read more

Hyacinthe Rigaud was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris. He is renowned for his portrait ... read more

Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the ... read more

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In ... read more

Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and is generally considered one of the most significant Northern European painters ... read more

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a ... read more

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his ... read more

Jean Fouquet was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the ... read more

Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement (in the tradition of ... read more

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, ... read more

Jean-Marc Nattier was a painter. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire. ... read more

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately ... read more

John Constable was an English Romantic painter known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, now known as "Constable ... read more

Sir Joshua Reynolds was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in ... read more

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, ... read more

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors ... read more

Masaccio was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. Masaccio died at twenty-six and little is ... read more

Nicolas Poussin was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. His ... read more

Paolo Uccello was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. He used ... read more

Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in ... read more

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. He is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, ... read more

Piero della Francesca was a painter of the Early Renaissance, also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca ... read more

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ... read more

Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and ... read more

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine school under the patronage of Lorenzo ... read more

Simon Vouet was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style ... read more

Tintoretto was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed ... read more

Tiziano Vecellio was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. During his lifetime he was often ... read more

William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited ... read more

Joseph Mallord William Turner was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a ... read more