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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824), usually known as Girodet-Trioson, was a French history and portrait painter, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David whose imaginative, emotionally charged works anticipated Romanticism.
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.
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz (born 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American portrait photographer, Rolling Stone chief photographer from 1973 with 142 covers, Vanity Fair's dominant image-maker since 1983, famous for the 1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono portrait.
Annie Pootoogook
Annie Pootoogook (ᐊᓇ ᐳᑐᒍ; 1969–2016) was an Inuk artist from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, whose colored-pencil drawings of daily Arctic life won the 2006 Sobey Art Award.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984), American landscape photographer and environmentalist of Yosemite and the American West; cofounder of Group f/64, developer of the Zone System, Sierra Club conservationist, and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer (born 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor of monumental Neo-Expressionist works on German history, myth, and the Nazi past, using lead, ash, and sediment of electrolysis; based in France since 1992.
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.
Antikythera Ephebe
The Antikythera Ephebe is a slightly larger-than-life Greek bronze of a nude youth, recovered from the Antikythera shipwreck in 1900 and dated to about 340–330 BC.
Antioch Chalice
The Antioch Chalice is a two-part Byzantine silver vessel of about 500–550 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibited in 1933 as the Holy Grail.
Antiqua
Antiqua: German term for serifed roman type of Roman origin, from Latin littera antiqua; developed from humanist script, first printed at Subiaco 1465, standard in Germany after the 1941 Normalschrifterlass ending the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute.
Antoine Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle, born Émile Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), was a French sculptor and influential teacher who worked for Rodin, made Héraklès archer (1909), and taught Giacometti.
Antoine Claudet
Antoine Claudet was a French-born daguerreotypist and inventor who learned the process directly from Louis Daguerre, ran London portrait studios from 1841, and improved exposure times.
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.
Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee
Antoinette Eno Pinchot Bradlee (1924–2011), also known as Tony Pinchot and Antoinette Pinchot Pittman, was an American ceramicist, jeweler, and painter, second wife of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and sister of murdered painter Mary Pinchot Meyer.
Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer and filmmaker born 1955 in Strijen; known for grainy high-contrast black-and-white portraits and decades-long visual direction for Depeche Mode and U2, plus films Control, The American, and A Most Wanted Man.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890–1960) was an Italian photographer, filmmaker, and theater director who invented photodynamism with his brother Arturo between 1911 and 1913, becoming the intellectual leader of Italian Futurist photography.
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.
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies i Puig (1923–2012) was a Spanish painter from Barcelona, a leading figure of European Art Informel known for thick, wall-like paintings of marble dust and glue.
Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright (born 1979, Miami) is a Cuban-American multimedia artist in video, performance, and sound, known for I Scream Therefore I Exist, State of Labor, and the 2022 No Vacancy award with Ruben Millares.
Antonio Berni
Antonio Berni (1905–1981) was an Argentine painter, printmaker, and sculptor born in Rosario, a leading social realist known for his Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel series.
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Italian Neoclassical sculptor from Possagno; made Theseus and the Minotaur, Cupid and Psyche, The Three Graces, and papal monuments; worked from clay sketches to marble via pointing.
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.
António Ole
António Ole, born António Oliveira in Luanda in 1951, is an Angolan multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and film on Angolan history and contemporary society.
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.
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930-2017), British photographer, filmmaker and designer; married Princess Margaret 1960, created Earl of Snowdon 1961; known for portraiture, Sunday Times work, and the Snowdon Trust.
Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley (born 1950, London) is a British sculptor of body-cast works and public art, including Angel of the North and Another Place; Turner Prize 1994, Companion of Honour 2025.
Antony Penrose
Antony William Roland Penrose (born 1947), British photographer and son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose; founder-director of the Lee Miller Archives at Farleys House, author of The Lives of Lee Miller, basis of the film LEE.