Impression, Sunrise - Waterlilies - Haystacks.
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Revolutionized Venetian painting -The Feast of the Gods ranks among the gems of the High Renaissance. It was completed by his disciple, Titian.
Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516)
Little Dyer - Painted The Last Supper but he is not Leonardo da Vinci - Last great painter of the Italian Renaissance.
Tintoretto (1518-1594)
The Birth of Venus and Primavera - Name translates as 'little barrel' in Italian.
Sandro Botticelli (1444/45-1510)
18th century artist famous for his landscapes of Venice.
Canaletto (1697-1768)
Dutch - Works depict sin and human moral failings and images of demons, half-human animals and machines - The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516)
One of his most important works is Burial at Ornans - Towards the end of his life, he painted a series of increasingly erotic works, culminating in The Origin of the World.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Contemporary of Michelangelo - School of Athens - Angel?
Raphael (1483-1520)
Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943).
Piet Mondrian
French painter of the 19th century best known for his portrayals of life at the Moulin Rouge and Parisian cabaret and theaters.
Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived - Two of his works occupy unique positions as the most famous, the most illustrated and most imitated portrait and religious painting of all time - Of his works, perhaps only 15 paintings survive.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
English painter known principally for his landscape paintings - Most famous paintings include Dedham Vale (1802) and The Hay Wain (1821).
John Constable (1776-1837)
Seventeenth-century Flemish - Diplomat - Paintings feature full-figured, voluptuous women - His namesque word means plump or fleshy but not fat.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Most iconic images are his woodcuts - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497-1498) from the Apocalypse series, the Rhinoceros and numerous self-portraits.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, commonly called the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305 - Early Renaissance.
Giotto (c.1267-1337)
His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the icons of 19th century painting.
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Feminine sensuality - Best known Impressionist work is his 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Luncheon of the Boating Party - Confined to a wheelchair during his last years.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
French painter who was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism - Masterworks are The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia.
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Father of Impressionism - Landscapes in and around Pontoise, as well as scenes from Montmartre - Mentor to Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin - Shares his first name with Monet's wife.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
French artist who can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and Cubism - Provence - Studies of Mont Sainte-Victoire - Lot of still life studies.
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
British - The Painter of Light - His The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up was voted in 2005 to be the greatest painting in a British art gallery.
J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)
16th-century Venetian school - Gave his name to a brownish orange color.
Titian (1485-1576)
The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi - Along with Titian and Tintoretto, he comprises the triumvirate of pre-eminent Venetian painters of the late Renaissance.
Veronese (1528-1588)
Spanish - Court of King Philip IV - Masterpiece is Las Meninas (1656) - Many modern artists including Picasso and Dalí recreated several of his works.
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)
Austrian - Vienna Secession movement - Primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism - Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold for $135 million in 2006 - The Kiss.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Norwegian - The Scream (1893).
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
This not-so-old artist is best known as the painter of portraits of Henry VIII.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism - Inspiration for Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis - Best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation.
El Greco (1541-1614)
Painter of ballet dancers - One of his famous sculpture's is Little Dancer of Fourteen Years made of wax.
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Liberty Leading the People (1830).
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
Spanish court painter - The Maja - The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid.
Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
15th century Dutch painter - Commonly but mistakenly believed that he invented oil painting - Masterworks include Ghent Altarpiece and Annunciation.
Jan van Eyck (c. 1385-1441)
Flemish artist most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England - Painted short, pointed beards and consequently that kind of beard was given his name.
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Greatest Dutch Painter - 17th century - Tons of self-portraits - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - Nightwatch.
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Primitivism - Tahiti - Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? - Substantial part of his collection is displayed in the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage - Inspired Somerset Maugham to write The Moon and Sixpence - Friendship with Vincent van Gogh.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Dutch Post-Impressionist - Cut off part of his left ear - Friendship with Paul Gauguin - Beloved brother of Theo.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)