Bartolommeo Manfredi
| Years of life: |
1582 – 1622 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Caravaggio |
| Artist's students: |
Gerard Seghers |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Caravaggisti |
Little-known artist. Painted decadent everyday scenes, mythological and religious pictures. Preferred allegorical themes based on conflict. He painted in a ...
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 ...
Carel Fabritius
| Years of life: |
1622 – 1654 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
| Artist's students: |
Johannes Vermeer |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Delft School |
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 ...
Francisco de Zurbarán
| Years of life: |
1598 – 1664 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Francisco Pacheco |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
He is considered a remarkable, but not a great artist. His main customers were Spanish religious orders. He depicted saints ...
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 ...
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 ...
Known for his fantastic faces and bodies made up of vegetables, trees, fruits, fish, and the like. He had the ...
Jan Brueghel the Elder
| Years of life: |
1568 – 1625 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Guild of Saint Luke |
The second son of Pieter Breugel the Elder, nicknamed "Velvet" (his name also retaining the “h” in Breughel). He painted ...
Jan Davidsz de Heem
| Years of life: |
1606 – 1684 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School |
Born in Utrecht, he lived and worked in Antwerp from 1636. He was famous for his still-life paintings of flowers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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