Adriaen van Ostade
| Years of life: |
1610 – 1684 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Frans Hals |
| Artist's students: |
Michiel van Musscher, Adrian Isaac |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School |
Born in Haarlem. Specialist in lowlife scenes of peasants. Warm earthy colors suit the mood of paintings. Over time, Ostade’s ...
Annibale Carracci
| Years of life: |
1560 – 1609 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Titian |
| Artist's students: |
Guido Reni |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Bolognese School |
Born in Bologna, he lived in Rome from 1595. The most talented member of the brilliant trio (with brother Agostino ...
Artemisia Gentileschi
| Years of life: |
1597 – 1652 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Orazio Gentileschi |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Florentine School, Caravaggisti |
Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi. She was kidnapped at 19 and tortured during the subsequent court case to see if she ...
Caravaggio
| Years of life: |
1571 – 1610 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Simone Peterzano |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
His full name was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The only one among the famous artists with such a criminal past ...
Teniers is best known for his genre paintings depicting rough peasants, such as in Boors Carousing. After 1651 he detailed ...
Esaias van de Velde
| Years of life: |
1591 – 1630 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Gillis van Coninxloo |
| Artist's students: |
Jan van Goyen, Pieter van Laer, Jan Martszen de Jonge, Pieter de Molyn, Pieter de Neyn, Anthony van de Velde |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School, Haarlem Guild of St. Luke |
His soft, monochromatic landscapes (often in winter) are very natural, unstagey, they convey well the sense of open space and ...
Frans Hals
| Years of life: |
1581 – 1666 |
| Artist's students: |
Adriaen van Ostade, Pieter Codde, Jan Miense Molenaer |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School, Guild of Saint Luke |
An artist fully formed in the Netherlands who never left Haarlem. After Rembrandt, he is the best painter in Dutch. ...
Frans Snyders
| Years of life: |
1579 – 1657 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Brueghel the Younger |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School |
Son of an innkeeper. The undisputed master of the Baroque still life. He became a rich man. There are many ...
Gabriel Metsu
| Years of life: |
1682 – 1749 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Gerrit Dou, Nikolaus Knüpfer |
| Artist's students: |
Michiel van Musscher, Adrian Isaac |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Leiden School |
The artist achieved great mastery of the courtyard scenes. His paintings depict scenes of the well-ordered life of the Dutch ...
Gerard Terborch
| Years of life: |
1617 – 1681 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Pieter Codde |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School |
He was precocious and successful, Terborch (or Ter Borch) was one of the finest and most versatile masters of the ...
Gerrit van Honthorst
| Years of life: |
1590 – 1656 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Abraham Bloemaert |
| Artist's students: |
Joachim von Sandrart |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Guild of Saint Luke, Caravaggisti, Utrecht School |
The only member of the Utrecht School to establish an international reputation. In 1610-1612 he studied in Rome. His narrative ...
Gerritt Dou
| Years of life: |
1613 – 1675 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
| Artist's students: |
Gabriel Metsu, Frans van Mieris the Elder |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School |
Also known as Gerard Dou. Rembrandt's first pupil (from the age of 15). Small-scale works with finely painted details, glassy ...
Giorgio Vasari
| Years of life: |
1511 – 1574 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Andrea del Sarto |
| Art Movement: |
Mannerism (Late Renaissance) |
| Painting School: |
Tuscan School |
Painter, architect, writer, art historian, collector. A popular and entertaining personality whose patrons - an inveterate gossip - were said ...
Govaert Flinck
| Years of life: |
1615 – 1660 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School |
In the 1630s he was a pupil of Rembrandt, but his works are lighter, less gloomy, and serious. Flinck was ...
Hendrick Ter Brugghen
| Years of life: |
1588 – 1629 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Caravaggisti, Utrecht School |
The most important painter of the Utrecht school, deeply influenced by Caravaggio's paintings (he spent 10 years in Italy). On ...
Jacob Jordaens
| Years of life: |
1593 – 1678 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Adam van Noort, Peter Paul Rubens |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
Rubens's assistant. Compared with Rubens, his work is less integral and harmonious, his paintings lack a single visual and emotional ...
Jacopo Bassano
| Years of life: |
1517 – 1592 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Bonifazio Veronese |
| Artist's students: |
Francesco Bassano the Younger, Giovanni Battista da Ponte, Leandro Bassano, and Girolamo da Ponte |
| Art Movement: |
Mannerism (Late Renaissance) |
The most famous member of the famous Venetian da Ponte family from Bassano (where Italian grappa is made). He was ...
Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto
| Years of life: |
1518 – 1594 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Titian |
| Artist's students: |
Maarten de Vos, Domenico Tintoretto |
| Art Movement: |
Mannerism (Late Renaissance) |
| Painting School: |
Venetian School |
His father was a dyer (tintore), hence the nickname, Tintoretto. Very little is known about his life. Although not very ...
Jan Both
| Years of life: |
1618 – 1652 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Dirck Both, Abraham Bloemaert |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
A Dutch landscape painter who studied in Rome and painted idyllic landscapes à la Claude Lorrain. Compared with Lorraine, his ...
Jan Steen
| Years of life: |
1626 – 1679 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Nikolaus Knüpfer, Jan van Goyen, Adriaen van Ostade, Guild of Saint Luke |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School |
Sten, one of the best Dutch painters, ran a tavern and owned a brewery. His tavern scenes, feasts, and burgher ...
Jan Vermeer
| Years of life: |
1632 – 1675 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Delft School, Guild of Saint Luke |
Today he is considered to be one of the finest Dutch genre painters. Unrecognized in his own lifetime and forgotten ...
Jan Weenix
| Years of life: |
1640 – 1719 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Jan Baptist Weenix |
| Artist's students: |
Maria Weenix, Dirk Valkenburg |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Utrecht School |
The son of Jan Baptist Weenix (1621 - 1663), who called himself Giovanni Battista after a trip to Italy in ...
Mattia Preti
| Years of life: |
1613 – 1699 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Caravaggisti |
A master of large-scale decoration, he successfully combines in his work the realism of Caravaggio and the theatricality of grand ...
Michelangelo Buonarroti
| Years of life: |
1475 – 1564 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Domenico Ghirlandaio |
| Art Movement: |
High Renaissance |
| Painting School: |
Florentine School |
A genius who cast his influence over all European art until Picasso broke the spell and changed the rules. Sculptor ...
Nicolaes Maes
| Years of life: |
1632 – 1693 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
| Artist's students: |
Justus de Gelder, Margaretha van Godewijk, Jacob Moelaert, Johannes Vollevens |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Delft School |
He is best known for his early paintings which often show kitchen life below stairs, or old women asleep. Later ...
Pieter Aertsen
| Years of life: |
1508 – 1575 |
| Art Movement: |
Northern Mannerism |
He painted altarpieces and large-scale peasant subjects. He often depicts religious scenes in monumental genre and still-life scenes (e.g., butcher's ...
Pieter Bruegel (the Elder)
| Years of life: |
1525 – 1569 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Pieter Coecke |
| Art Movement: |
Northern Renaissance (Dutch and Flemish Renaissance) |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
Breughel was nicknamed "Peasant" of the subject matter of his paintings, not his character. He was an outstanding Flemish painter. ...
Pieter de Hooch
| Years of life: |
1629 – 1683 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Nicolaes Berchem |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Delft School |
Pieter de Hooch was a popular Dutch master and one of the most famous masters of genre painting. He is ...
Pieter Paul Rubens
| Years of life: |
1577 – 1640 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort, Otto van Veen |
| Artist's students: |
Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Snyders |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
An extraordinary man, who had traveled to many countries, gifted with many talents: artist, diplomat, merchant, scholar. His studio, which ...
Rembrandt
| Years of life: |
1606 – 1669 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Jacob van Swanenburg, Pieter Lastman |
| Artist's students: |
Carel Fabritius, Nicolaes Maes, Gerrit Dou, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Ferdinand Bol |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School |
The full name of this great Dutch painter is Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. He created prolific, stunning masterpieces, treasured in ...
Salomon van Ruysdael
| Years of life: |
1600 – 1670 |
| Art Movement: |
Dutch Golden Age, Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Guild of Saint Luke |
Landscape painter. Uncle of the better known Jacob van Ruisdael. He painted views of Holland. Among his later works are several ...
Salvator Rosa
| Years of life: |
1615 – 1673 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Neapolitan school |
A feisty, authority-defying, narcissistic, lover of all things gloomy. Poet, actor, musician, satirist. He is now known for his mysterious, ...
Titian
| Years of life: |
1487 – 1576 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Giovanni Bellini, Gentile Bellini |
| Artist's students: |
El Greco, Annibale Carracci, Tintoretto |
| Art Movement: |
High Renaissance, Mannerism (Late Renaissance) |
| Painting School: |
Venetian School |
The artist's full name is Tiziano Vecellio, but he is better known as Titian. The supreme master of the Venetian ...
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