Mythology

He is best known for his arrogant, icy portraits. Court painter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a man of ...

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

At one time a revered and popular (especially in the seventeenth and seventeenth centuries) artist. Nowadays he is not very ...

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 ...

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

Somewhat obscure Venetian painter in the mold of Titian and Giorgione. His emotional and poetic painting is rich in color ...

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

He lived a short life, developed early as an artist, had great success (he was called the "Raphael reborn"). He ...

Painter, born and trained in Bologna. Worked with Giulio Romano in Mantua. In 1532 he moved to France under the ...

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

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

Painter, architect, writer, art historian, collector. A popular and entertaining personality whose patrons - an inveterate gossip - were said ...

Giorgione's real name was Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco. The young, short-lived genius of the Venetian School, who ranks in achievement, ...

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

Also known as Giulio Pippi. Architect, painter, and draftsman; a major exponent of Mannerism. Student and assistant of Raphael; strongly ...

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 ...

The most famous member of the famous Venetian da Ponte family from Bassano (where Italian grappa is made). He was ...

Also known as Jacopo Carucci. A Florentine, from Pontormo. Nervous, hysterical, lonely, melancholic, slow, capricious, hypochondriac, a talented painter (it ...

His father was a dyer (tintore), hence the nickname, Tintoretto. Very little is known about his life. Although not very ...

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 ...

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

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

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

At one time he was Haarlem's leading artist. He created portraits, altarpieces on mythological subjects. A trip to Rome in ...

Master of decorative paintings and portraits. Born and educated in Modena, he later perfected his art in Bologna. His fantastical ...

Remarkable Tuscan artist. Born in Pisa, he settled in Rome in 1576. His work was influenced by Caravaggio but without ...

Paolo Caliari, is from Verona, hence his middle name. The greatest representative of the Venetian school. Don't look for deep ...

Venetian painter, painted portraits, religious and mythological works, landscapes. He was strongly influenced by Giorgione and his teacher, Titian (despite ...

He was an out-of-the-ordinary painter for the Early Renaissance. A misanthrope who preferred to the humanistic ideals of the Renaissance ...

Breughel was nicknamed "Peasant" of the subject matter of his paintings, not his character. He was an outstanding Flemish painter. ...

Known chiefly as Rembrandt's teacher. He painted pictures of narrative characters with exaggerated facial expressions and gestures but spoiled by ...

An extraordinary man, who had traveled to many countries, gifted with many talents: artist, diplomat, merchant, scholar. His studio, which ...