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Adam Elsheimer
Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610) was a German painter and etcher who worked in Rome, painting small works on copper with innovative light effects that influenced Rubens, Rembrandt, and Claude Lorrain.
Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685) was a Dutch painter and etcher of Haarlem who specialized in scenes of peasant life, producing more than eight hundred paintings.
Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter from Dordrecht, famed for river and pastoral scenes in warm, golden evening light; most of his best work is in England.
Agnolo Bronzino
Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) was a Florentine Mannerist painter and poet, court painter to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and the leading portraitist of mid-16th-century Florence.
Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a German painter, printmaker, and architect of the Northern Renaissance active in Regensburg, a leading figure of the Danube School.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist; master of woodcut and engraving (Apocalypse, Melencolia I); first Renaissance artist known firsthand across Europe.
Alexei Antropov
Alexei Petrovich Antropov (Алексей Антропов; 1716–1795) was an early Russian portrait painter and church decorator, best known for court portraits of Empress Elizabeth and Peter III.
Allan Ramsay (artist)
Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) was a Scottish portrait painter, son of the Edinburgh poet of the same name, who became Principal Painter to King George III.
Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano (1601–1667) was a Spanish Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect, born and died in Granada, regarded as the founder of the Baroque painting school of Granada.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (died 1348/49) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and younger brother of Pietro Lorenzetti, known for the Good and Bad Government frescoes in Siena.
Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto, born Andrea d'Agnolo (1486–1530), was a leading Florentine painter of the early 16th century whose works include the Madonna of the Harpies in the Uffizi.
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter and engraver, one of the foremost north Italian artists of the fifteenth century, famous for his experiments with perspective and classical themes.
Andreas Ritzos
Andreas Ritzos, also recorded as Rico or Rizo (c. 1421–1492), was a Greek icon painter of the Cretan School in Candia, Crete, and the dominant painter there after 1450.
Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв)
Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв), also known as Andrey Rublyov, was a Russian monk and icon painter active ca. 1360–1430. He is remembered for his icon of the Old Testament Trinity.
Angelica Kauffman
Angelica Kauffman (Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807) was a Swiss Neoclassical painter and a founding member of the Royal Academy in London in 1768, one of only two women.
Angelos Akotantos
Angelos Akotantos (Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a Greek icon painter active in Venetian-ruled Crete in the first half of the fifteenth century and the earliest documented painter of the Cretan School.
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci is an Italian painter from Bologna, known for reforming Italian art away from Mannerism and Caravaggio. He also directed the influential Farnese Gallery ceiling in Rome.
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Flemish Baroque painter born in Antwerp, Rubens's pupil, court painter to Charles I as Principal Painter, knighted, and the dominant influence on English portraiture for nearly three centuries.
Antoine Watteau
Antoine Watteau, full name Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), was a French painter and draftsman born in Valenciennes who created the fête galante genre and became the seminal figure of the French Rococo.
Antoine-Jean Gros
Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), French painter and David pupil, painter of the Napoleonic epic with works like Bonaparte at Arcole, Jaffa, and Eylau; a forerunner of Romanticism.
Anton Losenko
Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Антон Павлович Лосенко, 1737–1773) was a Russian history painter regarded as the founder of Russian historical painting, known for Vladimir and Rogneda (1770).
Anton Raphael Mengs
Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) was a German-Bohemian painter, the leading early Neoclassicist, whose fresco Parnassus in Rome and work for Charles III of Spain shaped European classical revival.
Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) was an Italian painter from Messina who adopted Netherlandish oil technique and transformed Venetian portraiture during his documented stay in Venice, 1475 to 1476.
Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, born Antonio Benci, was an Italian Renaissance goldsmith, sculptor, painter, and engraver in Florence, known for the Battle of the Nudes engraving.
Antonis Mor
Antonis Mor, also Anthonis Mor or Antonio Moro, was a Netherlandish portrait painter, court portraitist to the Habsburgs, who died in Antwerp in 1576 or 1577.
Aqa Mirak
Aqa Mirak (آقا میرک), full name Sayyed Jalal-al-Din Hosayni Esfahani, was a 16th-century Persian painter at the Safavid court of Shah Tahmasp I, famed for animal painting.
Aqa Riza
Aqa Riza (آقا رضا), also known as Aqa Reza Heravi, was a Persian painter trained in the Safavid tradition who served Prince Salim, later Emperor Jahangir, in Kabul, Allahabad, and Agra.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi, also known as Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi, was an Italian Baroque painter, born in Rome in 1593, considered the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century.
Bada Shanren
Zhu Da, best known by his signature Bada Shanren (朱耷), was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of Ming imperial descent who became a Buddhist monk after the dynasty fell in 1644.
Balchand
Balchand (بالچند) was a Hindu painter at the Mughal imperial courts from 1595 to about 1650, the brother of painter Payag and a master of portraiture.