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Born in Haarlem. Specialist in lowlife scenes of peasants. Warm earthy colors suit the mood of paintings. Over time, Ostade’s ...

The son of a painter. Cuyp married a wealthy widow in 1658 and neglected his art. He produced several charming Dordrecht, ...

He specialized in night scenes (dark and mysterious, with a full moon or lit by burning candles) and winter landscapes ...

Born in Bologna, he lived in Rome from 1595. The most talented member of the brilliant trio (with brother Agostino ...

Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi. She was kidnapped at 19 and tortured during the subsequent court case to see if she ...

Painter, draftsman, and etcher; main exponent of Late Mannerism, its Northern European variant. Born in Antwerp. He worked in France, ...

Little-known artist. Painted decadent everyday scenes, mythological and religious pictures. Preferred allegorical themes based on conflict. He painted in a ...

His full name was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The only one among the famous artists with such a criminal past ...

He died tragically at a young age. Less than ten authenticated works are known, but they show the versatility of ...

The major portrait painter in England before Van Dyck. Born and trained in Dutch. About 1618 came to London, where ...

Teniers is best known for his genre paintings depicting rough peasants, such as in Boors Carousing. After 1651 he detailed ...

Born in Bologna' worked in Rome and Naples. He was small in stature (Domenichino means “little Dominic”) and had an ...

His soft, monochromatic landscapes (often in winter) are very natural, unstagey, they convey well the sense of open space and ...

A painter from Urbino who made sentimental paintings on religious subjects, Barocci was very ill, which can sometimes be evident ...

A pupil of Rembrandt. Many of his works are very much in the master’s style, to whom his works have ...

He is considered a remarkable, but not a great artist. His main customers were Spanish religious orders. He depicted saints ...

An artist fully formed in the Netherlands who never left Haarlem. After Rembrandt, he is the best painter in Dutch. ...

Son of an innkeeper. The undisputed master of the Baroque still life. He became a rich man. There are many ...

The artist achieved great mastery of the courtyard scenes. His paintings depict scenes of the well-ordered life of the Dutch ...

He was precocious and successful, Terborch (or Ter Borch) was one of the finest and most versatile masters of the ...

The only member of the Utrecht School to establish an international reputation. In 1610-1612 he studied in Rome. His narrative ...

Also known as Gerard Dou. Rembrandt's first pupil (from the age of 15). Small-scale works with finely painted details, glassy ...

He established the enthusiasm for large-scale illusionistic decoration of churches and palaces in Rome and Naples. He painted crowds with ...

In the 1630s he was a pupil of Rembrandt, but his works are lighter, less gloomy, and serious. Flinck was ...

Real name Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino, nicknamed "Guercino" means "crosseyed”. Self-taught, he worked in Bologna. He is considered one of ...

One of the leading artists of the Bolognese school. The source of his inspiration was the works of Raphael. His ...

The most important painter of the Utrecht school, deeply influenced by Caravaggio's paintings (he spent 10 years in Italy). On ...

Rubens's assistant. Compared with Rubens, his work is less integral and harmonious, his paintings lack a single visual and emotional ...

Jacob van Ruisdael was the leading Dutch landscape painter of the second half of the 17th century. He was a ...

A Dutch landscape painter who studied in Rome and painted idyllic landscapes à la Claude Lorrain. Compared with Lorraine, his ...

The second son of Pieter Breugel the Elder, nicknamed "Velvet" (his name also retaining the “h” in Breughel). He painted ...

Born in Utrecht, he lived and worked in Antwerp from 1636. He was famous for his still-life paintings of flowers ...

Sten, one of the best Dutch painters, ran a tavern and owned a brewery. His tavern scenes, feasts, and burgher ...

The painting was not a main activity of the inventor. Van der Heyden is best known for still lifes and ...

One of the most important Dutch landscape painters. He was a prolific and much-imitated painter, had many pupils. He often ...

Today he is considered to be one of the finest Dutch genre painters. Unrecognized in his own lifetime and forgotten ...

The son of Jan Baptist Weenix (1621 - 1663), who called himself Giovanni Battista after a trip to Italy in ...

A prolific, energetic, successful decorator of palaces, especially ceilings. He loved mythological subjects with dramatic action, bold compositions, contrasts of ...

The leading Antwerp painter. His work combines Flemish realism and love of detail with Italian subjects and idealizations (he visited ...

A master of large-scale decoration, he successfully combines in his work the realism of Caravaggio and the theatricality of grand ...