Giotto is regarded as one of the most famous painters in art history and is celebrated for his deviation from the then-traditional Byzantine style in religious painting.
Da Vinci operated during the Italian High Renaissance and had since established himself as an icon in painting. Many of his drawings can also be found at Windsor Castle in England under the Royal Collection.
An architect, poet, and painter, this old master is most famous for his frescoes at the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was one of the most prolific painters of the Italian High Renaissance.
Caravaggio was one of the most famous artists in art history whose approach to painting and technical excellence over the use of the chiaroscuro painting technique went on to influence many artists well into the next century.
Rubens operated during the 16th century and specialized in a variety of subject matter with his portraits and commissioned works being among the best of his paintings.
Judith Jans Leyster was one of the first Dutch female artists to register with the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke during the 17th century and was a master still-life painter and portraitist of her day.
Vermeer displayed some of the finest photorealistic images in his artworks. Vermeer chose to paint with expensive pigments, and only utilized approximately 20 known pigments.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, better known as J. M. W. Turner, was one of the best Romantic painters of the 19th century who specialized in maritime scenes and seascapes.
Oscar-Claude Monet was one of the pioneering artists of the French Impressionist movement, who remains one of the most referenced French painters to date.
Cassatt was also known to be a famous portrait artist who often painted subjects related to the relationship between mother and child as well as the subtle relationships between the observer and the observed.
Van Gogh was a leader of the post-Impressionist movement who invented his own unique style and as such became one of the most loved artists in art history.
Hilma Af Klint was a famous artist whose paintings were inspired by science, Symbolism, religious practices, and geometry. Klint is an artist who incorporated her spiritual practice with her abstract approach to art.
Edvard Munch was one of the first Expressionist artists to develop a unique approach to painting through the human experience of grief, melancholy, and deep psychological fears.
Picasso was one of the best Cubist painters in the world who not only explored his artistic ideas through Cubism and politics but also printmaking, sculpture, and theater design.
O’ Keefe believed in expressing the simplicity of life through selection, elimination, and emphasis across subjects to expose the true meaning of things.
Łempicka approached painting with a fresh eye rather than an agenda to painting, which is refreshing and is mirrored brilliantly in her quick and clean-cut brushwork.
Kahlo’s paintings are informed by the symbolism and heritage of Mexican culture as well as the personal experiences in her life involving love, betrayal, pain, and identity.