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Used great detail, bright colors, and a beautiful shine on art. Painted Ghent altarpiece.

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Jan Van Eyke

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Italian sculptor, architect, musician, engender, and scientist. Painted the Mona Lisa.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. Worked on the ceiling of the Sistene chapel and painted The last Judgement (one version).

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Michelangelo

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Italian renaissance painter. Painted churches, mansions, palaces, and at least ten tapestries. Painted Biblical images.

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Raphael

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Venetian Renaissance painter. Painted Assumption of the Virgin. Influenced 20th century art.

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Titian

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Known for dramatic foreshadowing, exaggerated poses, sketchy figure style, and use of strong, vivid light effects/movements.

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Tintoretto

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Painted genres with moralizing significance. Painted The fall of the Rebel Angels.

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Pieter Bruegel (Elder)

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Copied his fathers works.

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Pieter Bruegel (Younger)

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Specialized in still life art. Paintings are characterized by extreme smoothness and finesse.

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Jan(Velvet) Bruegel

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Studied under Titian. Religious painter. Expressionistic style employed flamelike lines, bright highlights, and belonged/distorted figures. Used vibrant colors against grays and earthy tones for dramatic effect.

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El Graco

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Italian baroque Painter. painted religious works/portraits. Used low society models for his works. Painted partly illuminated figures against a dark background.

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Carvaggio

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Foremost Flemish painter of the 17th century. Taught many artists, including Van Eyke. Added finishing touches to artworks. Used bold colors, much detail, and a sense of movement/liveliness.

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Peter Paul Rubens

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French painter. Experimented with the baroque style and studied the mannerist style. Painted Death of a Phocion and Seven Sacraments.

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Poussin

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Italian sculptor/architect. Could make a marble block look like a real human.

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Bernini

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Spain’s greatest Baroque artist. Painted Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmause, Borrachos, and Joseph’s coat. (Also did a series of dwarves)

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Velazquez.

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Dutch painter, portraitist, etcher, landscape painter, and draftsman. Paintings are dark and the main focus is lit. Painted The night Watch, Bathsheba, and Three Crosses.

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Rembrandt

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Dutch landscape master/foremost colorist. Used tiles of contrasting colors, such as black and white, and mainly painted woman at work. Painted The Milkmaid.

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Vermeer

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English portraitist and landscape artist. Pastoral backgrounds and fancily dressed ladies and gentlemen. Painted Peasant Girl Gathering Sticks.

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Thomas Gainsborough

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Romantic landscape painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Founded Impressionism. Known as “The Painter of Light” (first of that name).

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William Turner

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French painter and draftsman. Painted historical works and book illustrations. Painted Death of Sardanapalus and Massacre at Chios.

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Delacroix

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Paints beautiful, enchanting paintings of woman and children of a bygone era. Calming, wistful, nostalgic. Used mythological themes.

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Bouguereau

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French painter who painted things that caused public outcry. Drew what the eye saw at a glance (no transitional tones).

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Manet

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French painter and sculptor. Gifted draftsman and portraitist. Combined classical art and impressionism. Painted woman, ballet dancers, people in motion, etc. Off-center subjects/unusual angles.

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Degas

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American lithographer, magazine illustrator, landscape, marine, and genre painter. War correspondent. Portrays real, daily life.

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Winslow Homer

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Genre and portrait painter. Mostly drew elegant ladies and interiors. (Married Charles Dicken’s daughter).

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Perugini

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French painter. used a palette knife for creating thick, textured paintings with dreamlike dimensions and violent shapes.

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Paul Cezanne

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French landscape painter. A founder of Impressionism. Art looked fuzzy/unfinished. Concentrated on showing variations of light and atmosphere caused by changes of hour/season.

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Monet

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Popular American artist known for his realistic Civil War scenes.

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Edward Henry

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French impressionist painter/sculptor. Painted hoyful, shimmer colors and flickering light in outdoor scenes, showing people is a happy, busy setting.

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Pierre Renoir

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American figured painter, paste list, and etcher. Painted about motherhood.

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Mary Cassatt

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French painter, impressionist, and woodcut artist. Synthetist theory of art. Used flat planes and vivid, unnatural colors with primitive/symbolic meanings.

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Paul Gauguin

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American artist. Compared to Rockwell for drawing, detail, and nostalgia. Painted colonial American scenes and Revolutionary War scenes.

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Jennie Brownscombe

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English artist who influenced neo-classical painters. Portrayed classical and baroque styles, and painted Shakespearean themes.

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F. Sydney Muschamp

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English painter. Specialized in regency and medieval subjects.

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Edmund Leighton

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Post impressionist painter. “Mad genius.” Dark, earthy-toned paintings in beginning but evolved to bright toned paintings.

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Vincent Van Gogh

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American portraitist. Known for textured paintings. Captured life of the subjects.

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John Singer Sargent

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French neoimpressionist painter. Created pointillist technique (painting and entire picture with tiny dots).

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George Seurat

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French painter and lithographer. Works are graphic in nature, detailing life in Parisian brothels, cabarets, circuses, and music halls. Made posters for the Moulin Rouge.

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Henri Lautrec

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French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Leader of fauvism (artist used remarkable, vivid, and lavish colors).

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Henri Matisse

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Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist. Abstract artist.

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Picasso

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French painter/printmaker. Used elements of cubism, symbolism, and fauvism.

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Marc Chagall

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Art director of ‘A Boys Life.’ Known for capturing Americans in day to day life.

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Norman Rockwell

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Spanish surrealist painter. Nightmarish effect with paintings.

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Salvador Dali

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Painter, filmmaker, and leading artist if the 1960’s pop art movements. Blurred lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Used blotted lines and rubber stamps for his drawings. (Campbell soup).

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Andy Warhol

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American painter. Second “Painter of Light.” Painted gardens, streams, cottages, lighthouses, snowscenes, and churches.

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Thomas Kincade

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Paints kitchen garden images and creates fabric collections. Enjoys painting English cottages.

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Diane Knott

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Portrait artist who uses large brush strokes and bright colors. Details in face similar to Sargent but doesn’t focus on clothing/background.

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Del Gish

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