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Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) - Austria (Baumgarten)
Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Realism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism
What follows is an illustrative list of Gustav Klimt's main paintings and represents a chronological excursus on his main pictorial production. The arrangement is ordered by year and title, with brief comments and showing the Austrian painter's progress in artistic development. More...... |
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Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665) - France (Near Les Andelys)
Classicism, Baroque
Nicolas Poussin (French: [nikɔlɑ pusɛ̃] June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors. He returned to Paris for a brief period to ...... |
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Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) - France (Paris)
Impressionism, Realism, Neo-Classicism, Fauvism
Edgar Degas (US: /deɪˈɡɑː/ or UK: /ˈdeɪɡɑː/ born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡɑ] 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of...... |
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Georges Pierre Seurat (1859 - 1891) - France (Paris)
Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, Neo-Classicism, Impressionism
Georges-Pierre Seurat (French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually su...... |
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 - 1935) - Ukraine (Kiev Governorate Of Russian Empire)
Suprematism, Cubism, Geometric Abstract Art, Expressionism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Pointillism, Cubo-Futurism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Classicism, Realism, Constructivism
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling. Kazimir Malevic...... |
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Jacques Louis David (1748 - 1800) - France (Paris)
Neo-Classicism
Jacques-Louis David (/ʒɑːkˈlwi ˈdɑːviːd/ French: [ʒa.klwi da.vid] 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a 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, he...... |
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Giorgio De Chirico (1888 - 1978) - Greece (Volos)
Metaphysical Art, Neo-Baroque, Cubism, Neo-Classicism, Surrealism
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo deˈkiːriko] 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Ba...... |
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William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) - United Kingdom (London)
Classicism, Rococo
William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/ 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake...... |
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William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) - France (La Rochelle)
Neo-Classicism, Realism
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wijam.adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo] November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life he enjoyed significant popularity ...... |
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Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957) - Mexico (Guanajuato)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Social Realism, Realism, Art Deco, Neo-Classicism, Cubism, Surrealism
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa] December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican mural movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera paint...... |
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Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) - United Kingdom (Plympton)
Rococo, Neo-Classicism, Baroque
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (/ˈrɛnəldz/ 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits. According to John Russell, he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a f...... |
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) - United Kingdom (Sudbury)
Rococo, Classicism, Romanticism
Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light pal...... |
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) - France (Montauban)
Neo-Classicism
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French: [ʒɑnoɡyst dominik ɛ̃ɡʁ] 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 h...... |
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John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917) - Italy (Rome)
Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelites, Neo-Classicism
John William Waterhouse RA (6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to his sobriquet "the modern Pre-Raphaelite". Borrowing stylistic influence...... |
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Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) - United States (Springfield)
Neo-Classicism
Benjamin West PRA (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American history painter around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years' War. He was the second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving from 1792 to 1805 and 1806 to 1820. He was offered a knighthood by the British Crown, but declined it,...... |
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 - 1873) - Germany (Menzenschwand)
Academicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empr...... |
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun (1755 - 1842) - France (Paris)
Neo-Classicism
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Rococo or Neoclassical painter. Her sub...... |
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) - Italy (Mogliano Veneto)
Neo-Classicism, Classicism
Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista piraˈneːzi] 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Le Carceri d'Invenzione). Piranesi was born in Mogliano Veneto, near Treviso, then part of the Republic of Venice...... |
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Mario Sironi (1885 - 1961) - Italy (Sassari)
Futurism, Metaphysical Art, Cubism, Modernism, Neo-Classicism
Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. He was born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculp...... |
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John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815) - United Kingdom (Boston)
Neo-Classicism, Romanticism
John Singleton Copley RA (1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of wealthy and influential figures in colonial New England, depicting in partic...... |
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Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (1839 - 1915) - Russia (Moscow)
Realism, Romanticism, Neo-Classicism
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Russian: Константин Егорович Маковский June 20 [O.S. July 2] 1839 —September 17 [O.S. September 30] 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)". Many of his historical paintings, such as The Russian Bride's Attire (1889), showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior ...... |
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Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822) - Italy (Possagno)
Neo-Classicism
Antonio Canova (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo kaˈnɔːva] 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his artwork was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, but avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the col...... |
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François Hubert Drouais (1727 - 1775) - France (Paris)
Neo-Classicism
François-Hubert Drouais (December 14, 1727 – October 21, 1775) was a French painter and the father of Jean-Germain Drouais. Drouais was born and died in Paris. He was the father of Jean-Germain Drouais, a historical painter. Drouais specialized in portraits of the French nobility, foreign aristocrats, writers, and other artists. He was a pupil of D...... |
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Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 - 1779) - Czech Republic (Ústí Nad Labem)
Neo-Classicism
Anton Raphael Mengs (March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779) was a German Bohemian painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting. Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs (da), a Danish painter who eventually established himself at Dresden. His elde...... |
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Baron Antoine Jean Gros (1771 - 1835) - France (Paris)
Neo-Classicism, Romanticism
Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835), titled as Baron Gros in 1824, was a French painter. His work was in the genres of history and neoclassical painting. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French Revolution. Forced to leave France, he moved to Genoa and witnessed the near...... |
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758 - 1823) - France (Cluny)
Romanticism, Neo-Classicism
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (April 4, 1758 – February 16, 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was born in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire. He received his artistic training in the French provinces and went to Italy when he was twenty-six years old to continue his education....... |
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John Vanderlyn (1775 - 1852) - United Kingdom (Kingston)
Neo-Classicism
John Vanderlyn (October 15, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American neoclassicist painter. Vanderlyn was born at Kingston, New York, and was the grandson of colonial portrait painter Pieter Vanderlyn. He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a Scotsman who was afterwards on...... |
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Angelica Kauffman (Maria Anna Angelika) (1741 - 1807) -
Neo-Classicism
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman,[a] was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female found...... |
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John William Godward (1861 - 1922) -
Neo-Classicism
John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but his style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of modern art. He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that "the world is not bi...... |
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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757 - 1825) -
Rococo, Neo-Classicism
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Луки́ч Боровико́вский, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Лýкич Боровикóвський, Volodýmyr Lúkyč Borovykóvs’kyj) July 24 O.S. (August 4, N.S.) 1757 – April 6 O.S. (April 18, N.S.) 1825) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century. Vladimir Borovikov...... |
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Rembrandt Peale (1778 - 1860) - United States (Bucks County)
Neo-Classicism
Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. Rembrandt Peale was born t...... |
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