The Greatest Artists of All Time
Masters of paint, marble and imagination whose work still shapes how we see beauty. These are history's greatest artists.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist · 1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath — painter, inventor, anatomist and engineer — whose curiosity and genius made him the archetype of the 'Renaissance man'.
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Michelangelo
Artist · 1475 – 1564
Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect, one of the greatest artists in history, creator of the David, the Pietà and the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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Pablo Picasso
Painter · 1881 – 1973
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who co-founded Cubism and ranks among the most influential and prolific artists of the twentieth century, creating works such as Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Vincent van Gogh
Painter · 1853 – 1890
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose intense color, expressive brushwork, and emotional depth made him one of the most influential artists in Western history, though he found little recognition in his own lifetime.
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Painter · 1606 – 1669
Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and etcher of the Golden Age, regarded as one of the greatest artists in history, celebrated for The Night Watch, his searching self-portraits, and his mastery of light and shadow.
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Claude Monet
Painter · 1840 – 1926
Claude Monet was a French painter and the leading founder of Impressionism, whose studies of light and atmosphere — from Impression, Sunrise to the Water Lilies — revolutionized modern painting.
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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
Painter · 1483 – 1520
Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance whose works, prized for their harmony and grace, include The School of Athens and a famous series of serene Madonnas.