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| Raphael | Renaissance era artist, Best known for "School of Athens" featuring prominent greek philosophers |
| Michelangelo | Renaissance Master. Sistine Chapel Frescoes, The Last judgement. Sculptures: David, The Pieta. Famous Patron was POPE JULIUS II |
| Pablo Picasso | Spanish Painter. Father of Cubism. Most famous Painting: "Guernica" known for Blue Period and Rose Period of painting prior to Cubsim |
| Claude Monet | French. Father of Impressionism (ex. Impressionism Sunrise) |
| Jacques Louis David | French painter associated with French Revolution. Famous Works: "Oath of the Horatii" "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" and "The Death of Marat" |
| Edgar Degas | French. Known for Realism. Often painted Dancers. Msot Famous work "The Star" |
| Auguste Renoir | French painter. Associated with Impressionism. Known for: "The Bathers" "La Moulin de la Galette" |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance Master. "Mona Lisa" "The LAst Supper" "The Adoration of the Magi (unfinished)" |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Flemish Baroque Painter 1600s. Famous works include "The Apotheosis of Henry IV" "Massacre of the Innocents" |
| Caravaggio | Italian Baroque Painter 1600s. Famous works: "The Calling of St. Matthew" |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Dutch Post Impressionist painter. Famous for "Starry Night" "The Potato Eaters" and various paintings of sunflowers. His brother Theo was a well known art dealer who supported his career (Vincent recieved little to no fame while alive). |
| Titian | Italian painter 1500s. Versatile painter known for "St. Jerome in the Desert" and "Rape of Europa" and "Venus of Urbino" from VENETIAN school of painting |
| Henri Matisse | French. Early 20th century. associated with "Fauvist" movement. Known also for Paper cutouts and Prints |
| Andy Warhol | American Pop Artist from 1960s. Known for "Marilyn Monroe" and "Campbell's Soup Cans" |
| Grant Wood | "American Gothic" |
| Jackson Pollack | American 20th century painter. Abstract artist known for his "drip" technique and "action" painting |
| Francisco Goya | Spanish Painter, known for "The Third of May" and "Saturn devouring his Children" |
| Frida Kahlo | Mexican Artist, known for various self portraits (often showing her unibrow and mustache), wife of muralist Diego Rivera. Also known for communist beliefs |
| Albrecht Durer | German North Renaissance Painter. Known for "Knight Death and the Devil" |
| Geogia O'Keefe | American Artist. 20th century known for paintings set in SW (New Mexico etc). |
| Salvador Dali | surrealist spanish painter, known for "Persistence of Memory" (weird melting clocks) |
| Auguste Rodin | sculptor known for "The Thinker" and "The Gates of Hell" |
| Jan Vermeer | Dutch Painter 1600s. mainly painted scenes of middle class life. Most famous works are "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Milkmaid" and "View of Delft" |
| Phidias | Ancient Greek sculptor, "Statue of Zeus at Olympia" (one of the 7 wonders of world), and statues of Athena in the Parthenon |
| Myron | Greek sculptor: known for "Discobolus (The discus thrower)" |
| Roy Lichtenstein | American Pop Artist, most well known for his depiction of comic book scenes. Most famous work is "Whaam!" |
| Eugene Delacroix | French painter, leader of Romantic School. Know for "Liberty Leading the People" "Death of Sardonopolus" "The Women of Algiers" |
| Chuck Close | American Painter, Photorealist. famous work includes "Lucas" |
| Rembrandt | Most famous Dutch painter. 1600s. Known as master of portraits. Most famous painting "The Night Watch" aka "The Shooting Company of Captain Franz Banning Cocq" |
| Edward Hopper | American Realist painter. Best knwon for "Night Hawks" |
| Donatello | Renaissance artist. Best known for first free standing nude bronze since the classical era "The David" |
| Sandro Boticelli | Renaissance era artist famous for "The Birth of Venus" |
| Jan Van Eyck | The Arnolfini Wedding |
| Edvard Munch | "The Scream" |
| Andrew Wyeth | American Realist. "Christina's World" |
| El Greco ("the Greek") | Spanish Renaissance Artist 1500s. "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" "View of Toledo" |
