Famous Artists

Raphael

(1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescoes, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Vincent van Gogh

A Dutch expressionist who painted a "moving visions in his mind's eye"

Leonardo da Vinci

A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.

Michelangelo

An accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect.

Giotto

Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style

Monet

French impressionist painter (1840-1926)

Botticelli

Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510)

El Greco

Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)

Bernini

The leader of baroque art. Italian architect and sculptor who created Saint Peter's Basilica

Picasso

a spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.

Rembrandt

his art had this popping effect added to certain parts of the painting making it different to medieval art; his artwork tended to shape society because of his religious paintings of biblical events, but it had a humanist feel

Renoir

painted females and children with rosy cheeks