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

The last significant Florentine High Renaissance painter. Influenced in subjects, style, and technique by Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. He created ...

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 ...

Pinturicchio was a serious representative of the Umbrian school of painting, strongly influenced by Perugino. A highly skilled, prolific, ambitious, ...

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 ...

As a well-known Florentine painter, Rosselli belonged to the division and painted run-of-the-mill religious works. Cosimo Rosselli’s major works are ...

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

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

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

De Roberti was the court painter to the d’Este family in Ferrara. A shadowy figure, with very few works, firmly ...

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

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

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

Gentile was the brother of Giovanni Bellini and he was much respected in his own lifetime. was noted especially for ...

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 ...

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, ...

Giovanni Bellini is the most famous artist of the Bellini family; he is a supreme master of the early Renaissance ...

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 ...

Known for his fantastic faces and bodies made up of vegetables, trees, fruits, fish, and the like. He had the ...

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 ...

He was born in Antwerp. In 1549 he arrived in London. His manner is difficult to identify. Note the pale ...

He is a prolific, Bruges-based pupil of van der Weyden. His large altarpieces are too rigid, with stiff figures like ...

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

An obscure genius about whom little is known; spent his last years in a monastery, going mad. The only work ...

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