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 Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Dürer (German pronunciation:) (21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. His well-known works include t 
 Alessandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ( "The Little Barrel" c. 1445 - May 17, 1510 ) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorg 
 Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addic 
 André Masson
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He studied art in Brussels and Paris. He fought for France in World War I and was seriously injured. Masson's early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealis 
 Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, rec 
 Antonio Allegri Da Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known simply as Correggio, (August 1489 - March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Co 
 Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. Early life in Possagno and Venice Antonio Canova was b 
 Arkhip Kuinji
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (or Arkhip Kuinji , Russian: (January 27, 1842 (?) - July 24, 1910) - Russian landscape painter. Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol (present-day Ukraine), but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi (someti 
 Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (c. 1395 - February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole). In Giorgio Vasari's Lives of t 
 Giotto - Ambrogio Bondone
Giotto di Bondone (c.?1267 - January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master 
 Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 - May 5, 1900) was a painter of Armenian descent living and working Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Life Aivazovsky was born in the town of Feodosiya, Crimea (Russian Empire) to a poor Armenian family. His parents family name was Aivazian. Some of 
 James Abbott Mcneill Whistler
 
 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: ) (29 August 1780 - 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his grea 
 Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
 
 Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /'ćlm? 'tćd?m?/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the res 
 William Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he create 
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 Alessandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ( "The Little Barrel" c. 1445 - May 17, 1510 ) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorg 
 Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski (or Klossowski) de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris - February 18, 2001 in Rossiničre, Switzerland) , best known as Balthus, was an esteemed but controversial Polish-French modern artist. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read ab 
 Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) - April 3, 1682) , was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower gi 
 Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the first league of Impressionist painters. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly este 
 Duccio Di Buoninsegna
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1260 - c. 1318-1319) was one of the most influential Italian artists of his time. Born in Siena, Tuscany, he worked mostly with pigment and egg tempera and like most of his contemporaries he painted religious subject matters. He has influenced Simone Martini and the brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, among other 
 Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC (22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626), son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely 
 Giorgione - Giorgio Barbarelli
 
 Giotto - Ambrogio Bondone
Giotto di Bondone (c.?1267 - January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master 
 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was a Venetian painter and printmaker. He was prolific, and worked not only in the region of Veneto or Venetia, one of Italy's twenty regions, but also in Germany and Spain. Biography Early life (1696-1726) Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the 
 Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 - 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna . He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colour 
 Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. Life Hieronymus Bosch was born Hieronymus (or Je 
 Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the t 
 Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Br 
 Victor Borisov Musatov
Victor Mu satov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teach 
 William Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he create 
 William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757-12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of 
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 Antonio Allegri Da Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known simply as Correggio, (August 1489 - March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Co 
 Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. Early life in Possagno and Venice Antonio Canova was b 
 Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Early life and work Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was born 
 Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (28 October 1697 - 19 April 1768) better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching. Early career He was born in Venice as the son of the painter Bernardo Canal, hence his mononym Canaletto ("little Canal"), and Artemisia Barbieri. 
 Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571-18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Trained in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian, Cara 
 Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. 
 Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, dit le Lorrain) (c. 1600 - 21 or 23 November 1682) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. Biography Early years Claude was born in 1604 or 1605 into povert 
 Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: ) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape p 
 Giorgio De Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De) when it stands alone. Life and 
 Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 - 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an artform. Early life Gustave Caillebotte was born on 
 Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819-31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugčne Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important 
 Jean-Baptiste Corot
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates 
 Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. Life Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louv 
 John Constable
John Constable (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home-now known as "Constable Country"-which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher i 
 Maurits Cornelis Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /'???r/, Dutch: ( listen)), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessel 
 Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: 19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th 
 Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460 - 1525/1526) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian Renaissance painting during his lifetime 
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 Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Dürer (German pronunciation:) (21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. His well-known works include t 
 Antonio Allegri Da Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known simply as Correggio, (August 1489 - March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Co 
 Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. 
 Denis Maurice
 
 Diego Velazquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 - August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted sc 
 Dmitry Levitzky
Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky) (Russian: May 1735 - April 17, 1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter. Biography Dmitry was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in a family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky. His father was his first art teacher. Later be became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to Kiev to paint the Cathedral of 
 Donatello
Donatello (Donato di Niccolň di Betto Bardi c. 1386 - December 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism. Early l 
 Duccio Di Buoninsegna
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1260 - c. 1318-1319) was one of the most influential Italian artists of his time. Born in Siena, Tuscany, he worked mostly with pigment and egg tempera and like most of his contemporaries he painted religious subject matters. He has influenced Simone Martini and the brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, among other 
 Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (French pronunciation: ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is 
 El Greco - Dominikos Theotokopoulos
 
 Eugčne Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugčne Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exot 
 Francisco De Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, prov 
 Gentile Da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 - c. 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380 and his father, Niccolň di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. Gentile worked in various 
 Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 - August 13, 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Life He was born in Oudewater, now located in Utrecht. He spent his mature career in Bruges, where he was a member of the painters' guild. Upon the death of Hans Memling in 1494, David became Bruges' leading p 
 Giorgio De Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De) when it stands alone. Life and 
 Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation:) (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of fin de sičcle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the m 
 Honoré Daumier
 
 Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming w 
 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: ) (29 August 1780 - 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his grea 
 Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular an 
 Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968 French pronunciation: ) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereb 
 Masaccio Di San Giovanni
 
 Maurice De Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color. Life Maurice de Vlaminck was born in Paris to a family of musicians. His 
 Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (September 23, 1897 - July 20, 1994) was a Belgian painter, famous for his surrealist paintings with female nudes. Delvaux was born in Antheit in the Belgian province of Ličge, the son of a lawyer. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer. All of his 
 Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domčnech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His 
 Tamara De Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (Lempicka) (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star." Early life Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Pol 
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 Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) - April 3, 1682) , was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower gi 
 Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (French pronunciation: ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is 
 Edouard Manet
Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: ), 23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as 
 Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: , 12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy. Childhood Edvard 
 Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 - October 31, 1918) (German pronunciation: , approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive 
 El Greco - Dominikos Theotokopoulos
 
 Eugčne Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugčne Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exot 
 Jan Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck (Dutch pronunciation: before c. 1395 - before July 9, 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. There is a common misconception, which dates back to the sixteenth-century Vite of the Tuscan artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, that Ja 
 Maurits Cornelis Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /'???r/, Dutch: ( listen)), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessel 
 Max Ernst
Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 - April 1, 1976) was a German Dadaist and surrealist artist. Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in Brühl, Germany. In 1910, he enrolled in the University of Bonn to study philosophy, literature, art history, psychology and psychiatry. He completed his studies in 1914 just as WWI broke out. In 1918 he married the art histor 
 Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Br 
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 Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. 
 Fernand Léger
Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle . Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897-1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles in 1902-1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts he also appl 
 Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (c. 1395 - February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole). In Giorgio Vasari's Lives of t 
 Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC (22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626), son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely 
 Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (born François Marie Martinez Picabia, 22 January 1879 - 30 November 1953) was a French painter and poet. Biography Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven. His father was of aristocratic Spani 
 Francisco De Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, prov 
 Francisco Zurbaran
Francisco de Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 - August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. Early life He was born at Fuente d 
 Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1580 - 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture. Biography Hals was born in 1580 or 1581, in Antwerp 
 Franz Von Stuck
Franz Stuck (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Life and career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. To begin his artistic education in 1878 he went to Munich, where he would settle for life. F 
 Gentile Da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 - c. 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380 and his father, Niccolň di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. Gentile worked in various 
 Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French pronunciation: 5 April 1732 - 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawin 
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 El Greco - Dominikos Theotokopoulos
 
 Francisco De Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, prov 
 Gentile Da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 - c. 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380 and his father, Niccolň di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. Gentile worked in various 
 Georges-Pierre Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. Life Seurat was born into a wealt 
 Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 - August 13, 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Life He was born in Oudewater, now located in Utrecht. He spent his mature career in Bruges, where he was a member of the painters' guild. Upon the death of Hans Memling in 1494, David became Bruges' leading p 
 Giorgio De Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De) when it stands alone. Life and 
 Giorgione - Giorgio Barbarelli
 
 Giotto - Ambrogio Bondone
Giotto di Bondone (c.?1267 - January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master 
 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was a Venetian painter and printmaker. He was prolific, and worked not only in the region of Veneto or Venetia, one of Italy's twenty regions, but also in Germany and Spain. Biography Early life (1696-1726) Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the 
 Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 - 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna . He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colour 
 Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism-nowhere is this more apparent 
 Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 - 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an artform. Early life Gustave Caillebotte was born on 
 Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819-31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugčne Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important 
 Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (6 April 1826 - 18 April 1898) was a French Symbolist painter whose main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement. Biography Moreau w 
 Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 - May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre-Cubism, creating several of the movement's most distinctive works. Biography Born in Madrid, h 
 Masaccio Di San Giovanni
 
 Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470 - August 31, 1528), was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only ten paintings-several co 
 Paul Gauguin
Eugčne Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the re 
 Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he became one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Early life The Charging Chasseur, 1812.Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in t 
 Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-i 
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 Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1580 - 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture. Biography Hals was born in 1580 or 1581, in Antwerp 
 Hans Holbein The Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-between 7 and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book desig 
 Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation:) (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of fin de sičcle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the m 
 Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter. Matisse is regarded, with Picasso, as the greatest artist of the 20th century. Although he was initiall 
 Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works 
 Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. Life Hieronymus Bosch was born Hieronymus (or Je 
 Honoré Daumier
 
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 Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: (5 August 1844, Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great 
 Isaac Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: August 30, 1860 - August 4 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kybartai, Kaunas region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a 
 Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 - May 5, 1900) was a painter of Armenian descent living and working Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Life Aivazovsky was born in the town of Feodosiya, Crimea (Russian Empire) to a poor Armenian family. His parents family name was Aivazian. Some of 
 Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c. 1628 - March 14, 1682) was a Dutch landscape painter. Life A native of Haarlem, he appears to have studied under his father Isaak van Ruysdael, a landscape painter, though other authorities place him as the pupil of Berghem and of Allart van Everdingen. He was the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael, a la 
 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: ) (29 August 1780 - 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his grea 
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 Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1 
 Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c. 1628 - March 14, 1682) was a Dutch landscape painter. Life A native of Haarlem, he appears to have studied under his father Isaak van Ruysdael, a landscape painter, though other authorities place him as the pupil of Berghem and of Allart van Everdingen. He was the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael, a la 
 Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming w 
 James Abbott Mcneill Whistler
 
 Jan Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck (Dutch pronunciation: before c. 1395 - before July 9, 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. There is a common misconception, which dates back to the sixteenth-century Vite of the Tuscan artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, that Ja 
 Jan Vermeer
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have bee 
 Jean-Baptiste Corot
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates 
 Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers he can be categorized as part of the naturalism and realism movements. Life and work Youth Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aimée-Henrie 
 Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French pronunciation: 5 April 1732 - 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawin 
 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: ) (29 August 1780 - 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his grea 
 Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. Life Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louv 
 Joan Miro
Joan Miró i Ferrŕ (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983 Catalan pronunciation: ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous in 
 John Constable
John Constable (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home-now known as "Constable Country"-which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher i 
 Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits 
 Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 - May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre-Cubism, creating several of the movement's most distinctive works. Biography Born in Madrid, h 
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 Arkhip Kuinji
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (or Arkhip Kuinji , Russian: (January 27, 1842 (?) - July 24, 1910) - Russian landscape painter. Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol (present-day Ukraine), but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi (someti 
 Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism-nowhere is this more apparent 
 Kandinsky
Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his paintings Improvisations, Impressions, and Compositions. In 1886, he enrolled at 
 Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
 
 Paul Klee
Paul Klee (German pronunciation: 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color t 
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 Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, dit le Lorrain) (c. 1600 - 21 or 23 November 1682) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. Biography Early years Claude was born in 1604 or 1605 into povert 
 Dmitry Levitzky
Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky) (Russian: May 1735 - April 17, 1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter. Biography Dmitry was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in a family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky. His father was his first art teacher. Later be became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to Kiev to paint the Cathedral of 
 Fernand Léger
Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle . Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897-1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles in 1902-1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts he also appl 
 Isaac Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: August 30, 1860 - August 4 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kybartai, Kaunas region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a 
 Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular an 
 Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 - 1556) was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, he already constitutes, through his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions, a transitional st 
 Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting" . Early years Roy Lichtenstein, was born in Manhattan, into an upper-middle-class 
 Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /'ćlm? 'tćd?m?/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the res 
 Tamara De Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (Lempicka) (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star." Early life Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Pol 
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 Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addic 
 André Masson
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He studied art in Brussels and Paris. He fought for France in World War I and was seriously injured. Masson's early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealis 
 Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) - April 3, 1682) , was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower gi 
 Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the first league of Impressionist painters. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly este 
 Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571-18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Trained in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian, Cara 
 Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: ) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape p 
 Denis Maurice
 
 Edouard Manet
Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: ), 23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as 
 Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: , 12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy. Childhood Edvard 
 Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (6 April 1826 - 18 April 1898) was a French Symbolist painter whose main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement. Biography Moreau w 
 Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter. Matisse is regarded, with Picasso, as the greatest artist of the 20th century. Although he was initiall 
 Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works 
 James Abbott Mcneill Whistler
 
 Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers he can be categorized as part of the naturalism and realism movements. Life and work Youth Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aimée-Henrie 
 Joan Miro
Joan Miró i Ferrŕ (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983 Catalan pronunciation: ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous in 
 Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968 French pronunciation: ) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereb 
 Masaccio Di San Giovanni
 
 Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470 - August 31, 1528), was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only ten paintings-several co 
 Maurice De Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color. Life Maurice de Vlaminck was born in Paris to a family of musicians. His 
 Maurits Cornelis Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /'???r/, Dutch: ( listen)), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessel 
 Max Ernst
Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 - April 1, 1976) was a German Dadaist and surrealist artist. Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in Brühl, Germany. In 1910, he enrolled in the University of Bonn to study philosophy, literature, art history, psychology and psychiatry. He completed his studies in 1914 just as WWI broke out. In 1918 he married the art histor 
 Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the t 
 Mikhail Nesterov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: May 31 1862, Ufa - 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He studied under Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890 
 Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. Magritte was 
 Victor Borisov Musatov
Victor Mu satov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teach 
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 Mikhail Nesterov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: May 31 1862, Ufa - 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He studied under Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890 
 Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (alternative transliteration) (Russian: ??????? ?????????????? ?????), was a Russian painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. He created about 7,000 paintings (many of them are exhibited in well-known museums of the worl 
 Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 - 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century. Until the 20th century he remained the major inspiration for such classically-orien 
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 Odilon Redon
Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Life Odilon Redon (pronounced o dee lawn r'dawn) was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile. Redon 
 Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
 
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 Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Early life and work Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was born 
 Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (born François Marie Martinez Picabia, 22 January 1879 - 30 November 1953) was a French painter and poet. Biography Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven. His father was of aristocratic Spani 
 Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1 
 Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 - 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century. Until the 20th century he remained the major inspiration for such classically-orien 
 Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of s 
 Paolo Uccello
 
 Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: 19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th 
 Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (September 23, 1897 - July 20, 1994) was a Belgian painter, famous for his surrealist paintings with female nudes. Delvaux was born in Antheit in the Belgian province of Ličge, the son of a lawyer. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer. All of his 
 Paul Gauguin
Eugčne Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the re 
 Paul Klee
Paul Klee (German pronunciation: 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color t 
 Paul Signac
Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Biography Breakfast, 1886-1887, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The NetherlandsPaul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863. He followed a course of training in architect 
 Peter Paul Rubens
The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens , b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history. By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the imaginative freedom and classical themes of 
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841-December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". Biography Youth P 
 Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Br 
 Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino (1446-1524) was the leading painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Biography Early years He was born Pietro Vannucci in Cittŕ della Pieve, Umbria, the son of Cristoforo Vannucci his nickname characterizes him as from Perugia, the chief city of Umbria 
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 Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: (5 August 1844, Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great 
 Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c. 1628 - March 14, 1682) was a Dutch landscape painter. Life A native of Haarlem, he appears to have studied under his father Isaak van Ruysdael, a landscape painter, though other authorities place him as the pupil of Berghem and of Allart van Everdingen. He was the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael, a la 
 Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits 
 Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (alternative transliteration) (Russian: ??????? ?????????????? ?????), was a Russian painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. He created about 7,000 paintings (many of them are exhibited in well-known museums of the worl 
 Odilon Redon
Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Life Odilon Redon (pronounced o dee lawn r'dawn) was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile. Redon 
 Peter Paul Rubens
The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens , b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history. By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the imaginative freedom and classical themes of 
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841-December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". Biography Youth P 
 Raphael - Raffaello Sanzio
Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino --d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States ), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition a 
 Rembrandt Van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having achieved youthful succes 
 Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. Magritte was 
 Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting" . Early years Roy Lichtenstein, was born in Manhattan, into an upper-middle-class 
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 Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 - October 31, 1918) (German pronunciation: , approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive 
 Franz Von Stuck
Franz Stuck (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Life and career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. To begin his artistic education in 1878 he went to Munich, where he would settle for life. F 
 Georges-Pierre Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. Life Seurat was born into a wealt 
 Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. Life Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louv 
 Masaccio Di San Giovanni
 
 Paul Signac
Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Biography Breakfast, 1886-1887, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The NetherlandsPaul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863. He followed a course of training in architect 
 Raphael - Raffaello Sanzio
Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino --d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States ), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition a 
 Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domčnech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His 
 Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /'ćlm? 'tćd?m?/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the res 
 Valentin Serov
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2007) Self-portrait, 1880sValentin Alexandrovich Serov (January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his 
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 El Greco - Dominikos Theotokopoulos
 
 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was a Venetian painter and printmaker. He was prolific, and worked not only in the region of Veneto or Venetia, one of Italy's twenty regions, but also in Germany and Spain. Biography Early life (1696-1726) Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the 
 Hans Holbein The Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-between 7 and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book desig 
 Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation:) (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of fin de sičcle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the m 
 Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Br 
 Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /'ćlm? 'tćd?m?/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the res 
 Tamara De Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (Lempicka) (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star." Early life Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Pol 
 Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he became one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Early life The Charging Chasseur, 1812.Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in t 
 Titian - Tiziano Vecelli
 
 William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775[1] – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. 
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 Paolo Uccello
 
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 Diego Velazquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 - August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted sc 
 Franz Von Stuck
Franz Stuck (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Life and career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. To begin his artistic education in 1878 he went to Munich, where he would settle for life. F 
 Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c. 1628 - March 14, 1682) was a Dutch landscape painter. Life A native of Haarlem, he appears to have studied under his father Isaak van Ruysdael, a landscape painter, though other authorities place him as the pupil of Berghem and of Allart van Everdingen. He was the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael, a la 
 Jan Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck (Dutch pronunciation: before c. 1395 - before July 9, 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. There is a common misconception, which dates back to the sixteenth-century Vite of the Tuscan artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, that Ja 
 Jan Vermeer
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have bee 
 Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular an 
 Maurice De Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color. Life Maurice de Vlaminck was born in Paris to a family of musicians. His 
 Rembrandt Van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having achieved youthful succes 
 Titian - Tiziano Vecelli
 
 Valentin Serov
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2007) Self-portrait, 1880sValentin Alexandrovich Serov (January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his 
 Victor Borisov Musatov
Victor Mu satov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teach 
 Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely, born Hungarian: Vásárhelyi Gyozo (9 April 1906, Pécs - 15 March 1997, Paris) was a Hungarian French artist whose work is generally seen aligned with Op-art. Zebra, created by Vasarely in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art. Vasarely died in Paris in 1997. Life and work Vasarely was born in 
 Victor Vasnetsov
Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Lop'jal near Vyatka, May 15 (N.S.), 1848 - Moscow, June 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art. Biography Childhood (1848-1858) A Knight at the CrossroadsViktor Vasnetsov was born in a remote villag 
 Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-i 
 Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460 - 1525/1526) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian Renaissance painting during his lifetime 
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 Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, rec 
 James Abbott Mcneill Whistler
 
 William Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he create 
 William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757-12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of 
 William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775[1] – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. 
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 Hans Holbein The Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-between 7 and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book desig 
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 Francisco Zurbaran
Francisco de Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 - August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. Early life He was born at Fuente d 
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