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Luis Meléndez
Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) was a Spanish painter, the leading still-life painter of 18th-century Spain, known for about one hundred still lifes of foodstuffs and kitchen vessels.
Luo Ping
Luo Ping (羅聘) was a Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty, the youngest of the Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics, best known for his Ghost Amusement ghost paintings.
Ma Shouzhen
Ma Shouzhen (1548–1604), also known as Ma Xianglan, was a Chinese courtesan, painter, poet, and playwright of the Ming dynasty, famous for her orchid and bamboo paintings.
Manuel Panselinos
Manuel Panselinos (Μανουὴλ Πανσέληνος) is the traditional name of a Byzantine painter of the late 13th and early 14th century, credited with the Protaton frescoes at Karyes on Mount Athos.
Marcos Zapata
Marcos Zapata, also known as Marcos Sapaca Inca, was a Peruvian painter of the Cuzco School, known for his 1753 Last Supper in Cusco Cathedral featuring guinea pig.
Masaccio
Masaccio (Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai, 1401-1428), early-Renaissance Florentine painter; pioneer of linear perspective in painting (Holy Trinity) and of single-source light (Brancacci Chapel frescoes with Masolino). Died at about 27, probably of plague in Rome.
Matrakçı Nasuh
Matrakçı Nasuh (died 1564) was an Ottoman historian, mathematician, miniaturist, calligrapher, and swordsman who gave Ottoman miniature painting a topographic direction through illustrated city views.
Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald, whose real name was Mathis Gothart Nithart (c. 1475–1528), was a German painter of the Northern Renaissance, best known for the Isenheim Altarpiece, painted for a monastery hospital between 1512 and 1516.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), also spelled Delatour, French pastel portraitist in Paris, painter to Louis XV from 1750, rival of Perronneau; famed for Voltaire, the Rieux portraits, and 15 self-portraits.
Mei Qing
Mei Qing (梅清, 1623 or 1624–1697) was a Chinese landscape painter and poet of the early Qing dynasty, celebrated as a leading master of the Huangshan School.
Meindert Hobbema
Meindert Hobbema, baptized Meyndert Lubbertsz (1638–1709), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter known for wooded scenes and watermills, and for his late masterpiece The Avenue at Middelharnis.
Melchior Broederlam
Melchior Broederlam was a Flemish painter of Ypres who served as court painter to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, documented from 1381 to 1409.
Melchor Pérez de Holguín
Melchor Pérez de Holguín (c. 1660–c. 1732) was a Bolivian painter active in the silver-mining city of Potosí, known as the "Golden Brush" and regarded as Bolivia's greatest colonial artist.
Michael Damaskinos
Michael Damaskinos (Μιχαήλ Δαμασκηνός, c. 1530/35–1592/93) was a Greek painter of the Cretan School, born in Candia on Venetian-ruled Crete, who fused Byzantine icon painting with Venetian Renaissance art.
Michael Pacher
Michael Pacher (c. 1430/35–1498) was a South Tyrolean painter, sculptor, and woodcarver based in Bruneck, known for combining Gothic carved altarpieces with Italian Renaissance perspective.
Michael Sittow
Michael Sittow, also spelled Michel Sittow (c. 1468/9–1525), was an Estonian painter from Reval, now Tallinn, who worked as a court portraitist for Isabella of Castile.
Mu'in Musavvir
Mu'in Musavvir (معین مصوّر) was a Persian painter of the Safavid period who worked in Isfahan as the best-known pupil of Riza-yi 'Abbasi, producing more than 300 miniatures and drawings.
Muqi
Muqi (牧谿), also Muxi or Japanese Mokkei, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and painter, monastic name Fachang, active from the late Southern Song into the early Yuan.
Nakkaş Osman
Nakkaş Osman was an Ottoman court painter who directed the imperial painting atelier under Murad III (1574–1595), credited with miniatures of the Şemâilnâme, Şehinşahnâme, and Hünernâme chronicles.
Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547–1619) was an English goldsmith-turned-painter and the leading portrait miniaturist of the Elizabethan court, whose portraits of Elizabeth I became her standard likeness.
Nicolas de Largillière
Nicolas de Largillière, also written Largillierre, was a French portrait painter, 1656 to 1746, who painted the French nobility across the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV.
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), French classical painter active in Rome from 1624; First Painter to Louis XIII in 1640–42; painter of the Seven Sacraments and The Four Seasons; founder of the academic history-painting tradition.
Onufri
Onufri was a sixteenth-century Albanian icon painter, active from at least 1547 to 1554, regarded as the greatest Albanian painter of his century and founder of the Berat school of icon painting.
Orazio Gentileschi
Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an Italian Baroque painter born in Pisa who adopted Caravaggio's naturalism in Rome, then worked for the courts of Paris and London.
Orcagna
Orcagna was the working name of Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, a Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect documented from 1343 to 1368, regarded as the leading Florentine artist of his time.
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono, 1397-1475), Florentine early Renaissance painter famed for linear perspective; his three-panel Battle of San Romano (1432 battle) hangs in the Uffizi, National Gallery London, and Louvre; other works include the Hawkwood fresco.
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese, born Paolo Caliari (1528–1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school, one of the three great sixteenth-century masters of Venice alongside Titian and Tintoretto.
Parmigianino
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, 1503 to 1540) was an Italian painter and etcher from Parma, a leading originator of Mannerism known for the unfinished Madonna of the Long Neck.
Pedro Berruguete
Pedro Berruguete (c. 1450–1503) was a Spanish painter who worked for Duke Federico da Montefeltro at Urbino and became the leading Castilian painter under the Catholic Monarchs.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci: household, finances, patrons and will of the Renaissance painter (1452–1519), documented via catasto records, notebooks, Salaì and Melzi, and the 1519 testament.