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How many famous artists do you know? Here, we list the names of 40 famous artists—from Michelangelo to Frida Kahlo.
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Pablo Picasso
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Claude Monet
- Michelangelo
- Salvador Dalí
- Rembrandt
- Frida Kahlo
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Johannes Vermeer
Vincent Van Gogh, born in the Netherlands in 1853, is widely regarded as one of the finest post-impressionist painters of all time. He was born into a pretty rich household as the son of a preacher and spent most of his early life as a missionary. He worked as an art dealer for many years and traveled often as part of his career; nevertheless, afte...
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in late 1881. Throughout his life, he maintained deep links to Spain, its culture, and history. Picasso is often regarded as the most renowned contemporary painter, since his paintings are immediately identifiable across the globe. Not only was he a gifted painter, but he was also a skilled sculptor, dramati...
Leonardo da Vinci, born in 1452 in Tuscany, Italy, was a guy who was interested by everything from art and sculpting to building and engineering. While he is today regarded as a pioneer in a variety of scientific fields, he was also a well-known painter during his lifetime. His grasp of human anatomy and emotion aided him in his paintings, which we...
Claude Monet, born in Paris in 1840, was a talented French artist who is widely considered as one of the most significant inventors of impressionism. The word “impressionism” was created after his picture Impression, Sunrise. He was recognized for his charcoal caricatures when he was younger, but it wasn’t until Eugene Boudin became his master that...
Michelangelo Buonarotti was born in Florence, Italy around 1475. He started an apprenticeship with Domenico Ghirlandaio at the age of thirteen, but quit after one year owing to his ability and rapid learning. Before the age of thirty, he had finished his two most renowned sculptures, David and Pieta, and established himself as a master sculptor. A ...
Salvador Dali is a Spanish surrealist painter best known for his exploration of the human psyche in all of his work. During the 1920s, Dali was a student of art in Madrid when he encountered surrealism. Dali made his finding after reading the teachings of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud, who assisted him in exploring the subconscious mind. It w...
Rembrandt van Rijn, sometimes known simply as ‘Rembrandt,’ is one of the most well-known Dutch painters in history. He painted with a realism that would become practically synonymous with the Baroque era in which he flourished. He was born in the Netherlands in 1606 and is widely regarded as having played a significant influence in what many believ...
Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico’s most talented painters and a master of self-portraiture. Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907. She recovered from polio as a child, but walked with a limp due to the virus’s damage to her leg and foot. While in college, Kahlo became politically involved as a communist. Kahlo was a passenger in a bus that ...
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, was born in 1841 and died in 1919. He was one of the most prolific painters of all time and a key figure in impressionism. While he was intimately identified with the movement at the start of his career, he distanced himself from it towards the end and took much of his inspiration from classical painting. Renoir is well-know...
Johannes Vermeer is another well-known Dutch artist who is widely regarded as one of the most renowned European painters. Vermeer, like Rembrandt, worked throughout the Baroque period and created several paintings known for their vibrant detail and movement. Vermeer was born in 1632 in Holland and developed an interest in art at a young age since h...
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Photo 1 - Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1503-1506. Photo 2 - Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1490. A recent discovery has brought this 15th-century Italian artist into modern day headlines.
- Michelangelo (1475-1564) David, Michelangelo, c. 1504. An Italian sculptor, painter, and architect of the High Renaissance period, Michelangelo’s work has had a lasting effect on the development of Western art due to its use of classical antiquity.
- Raphael (1483-1520) Madonna in the Meadow, Raphael, c. 1506. Raphael, also known as rival to Michelangelo due to their similar artistic styles and projects, is an Italian painter, and architect of the High Renaissance period is most famous for paintings like
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Samson and Delilah, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1609-1610.
- Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is an iconic painting. It was created between 1503 and 1506 during the Italian Renaissance period, more specifically, during the High Renaissance.
- The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Another of the most famous Renaissance paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, is The Last Supper. The painting depicts the scene of the Last Supper, where Jesus Christ and his disciples are sharing a meal.
- The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 while he was staying at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.
- The Scream by Edvard Munch. The Scream is a renowned expressionist painting created by Edvard Munch in 1893. It has become one of the most recognisable paintings ever created.
- Leonardo da Vinci. The original Renaissance Man, Leonardo is identified with genius, not only for masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa (the title for which has entered the language as a superlative), The Last Supper and The Lady with an Ermine, but also for his drawings of technologies (aircraft, tanks, automobile) that were five hundred years in the future.
- Michelangelo. Michelangelo was a triple threat: A painter (the Sistine Ceiling), a sculptor (the David and Pietà) and architect (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome).
- Rembrandt. One the greatest artists in history, this Dutch Master is responsible for masterworks such as The Night Watch and Doctor Nicolaes Tulp's Demonstration of the Anatomy of the Arm.
- Vermeer. Remarkably, Vermeer was largely forgotten for two centuries before his rediscovery in the 19th century. Since then, he’s been recognized as one of art history’s most important figures, an artist capable of rendering works of uncanny beauty.
The most famous artists are the ones that capture a time, a place, an idea or spear head a new artistic movement. Our list of artists contains some of the most genius minds to ever exist.
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