Artists from around the world
Marinus van Reymerswaele or Marinus van Reymerswale was a Dutch Renaissance painter mainly known for his genre scenes and religious compositions.
Iacopo Negretti, best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane, was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school.
Francesco Salviati or Francesco de' Rossi was an ItalianManneristpainter who lived and worked inFlorence
Sebastiano del Piombo was an Italian painter of theHigh Renaissanceand earlyManneristperiods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of theVenetian schoolin which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school.
Palma Vecchio, born Jacopo Palma and also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance.
The Master of the Small Landscapes was a Flemish artist from the mid-16th century known for his landscape drawings.the drawings of the Master played an important role in the evolution of Northern Renaissance landscape art from the world landscape into an independent genre.
Pieter Brueghel was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work as well as his original compositions.
Nicholas Hilliard was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.
Maerten de Vos, Marten de Vos was a Flemish painter mainly of history paintings and portraits.
Hans Hoffmann was a German painter and draftsman. A leading representative of the Dürer Renaissance, he specialised in watercolor and gouache nature studies, many of them copied from or based on Dürer's work.
Pieter Bruegel was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes; he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings.
Pieter Aertsen was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still life and genre painting and often also includes a biblical scene in the background.
Cristóvão de Figueiredo was a Portuguese Renaissance painter.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen was a leading Flemish Renaissance painter, belonging to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists, who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting.
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century.
Gregório Lopes was one of the most important Renaissance painters from Portugal.
Bernard van Orley was a versatile Flemish artist and representative of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, who was equally active as a designer of tapestries and, at the end of his life, stained glass.
Hans Baldung Grien or Grün was a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.
Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects.
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg.
Jean Hey, now generally identified with the artist formerly known as the Master of Moulins, was an Early Netherlandish painter working in France and the Duchy of Burgundy, and associated with the court of the Dukes of Bourbon.
Jan Gossaert was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse or Jennyn van Hennegouwe
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career
Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
Matthias Grünewald was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.
Quentin Massys was a painter in the Flemish tradition and a founder of the Antwerp school. He was born at Leuven, where legend states he was trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
Jan Provoost, or Jean Provost, or Jan Provost was a Belgian painter born in Mons.
Bernhard Strigel was a German portrait and historical painter of the Swabian school, the most important of a family of artists established at Memmingen.
Hans Holbein the Elder was a German painter.
Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known.
Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch/Netherlandish draughtsman and painter from Brabant. He is widely considered one of the most notable representatives of Early Netherlandish painting school.
Jan Joest, also known as Jan Joest van Kalkar or Jan Joest van Calcar, was a Dutch painter from either Kalkar or Wesel, known for his religious paintings.
Martin Schongauer or Hübsch Martin by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer.
Jean Fouquet was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.
Hugo van der Goes was one of the most significant and original Early Netherlandish painters of the late 15th century.
Hans Memling was a German painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting.
Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter.Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point
Justus van Gent or Joos van Wassenhove was an Early Netherlandish painter who after training and working in Flanders later moved to Italy where he worked for the duke of Urbino.
Stefan Lochner was a German painter working in the late soft style of the International Gothic.
Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck.
Konrad Witz was a German-born painter, active mainly in Basel, Switzerland.
Jacques Daret was an Early Netherlandish painter born in Tournai , where he would spend much of his life.
Rogier van der Weyden was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
Jan van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges. He is often considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting, and, one of the most significant representatives of Northern Renaissance art.
Robert Campin, now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle, was the first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting.
Fede Galizia was an Italian Renaissance painter of portraits and still lifes.
Joachim Anthoniszoon Wtewael was a Dutch Mannerist painter and draughtsman, as well as a highly successful flax merchant, and town councillor of Utrecht.
Francisco Pacheco del Río was a Spanish painter, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain.
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other artists.
Adam van Noort was a Flemish painter and draughtsman and one of the teachers of Peter Paul Rubens. Adam van Noort was mainly known for his history paintings but he also created some portraits.
Tobias Verhaecht was a Flemish painter primarily of landscapes. He was the first teacher of Pieter Paul Rubens.
Domenico Robusti, also known as Domenico Tintoretto, was an Italian painter from Venice. He grew up under the tutelage of his father, the renowned painter Jacopo Tintoretto.
Marietta Robusti was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto and is sometimes referred to as Tintoretta.
Hendrick Goltzius, was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period
Otto van Veen, was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Barbara Longhi was an Italian painter. She was much admired in her lifetime as a portraitist, although most of her portraits are now lost or unattributed.
Lavinia Fontana was an Italian painter. She is regarded as the first woman artist, working within the same sphere as her male counterparts, outside a court or convent.
Hans von Aachen was a German painter who was one of the leading representatives of Northern Mannerism.Hans von Aachen was a versatile and productive artist who worked in many genres.
Martin Kober was a portrait painter and court painter to different Central European monarchs - King Stephen Báthory
Doménikos Theotokópoulos was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
Bartholomeus Spranger or Bartholomaeus Spranger was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, sculptor and designer of prints.
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
Sofonisba Anguissola,was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family.
Bartolomeo Passerotti was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna. His family name is also spelled Passerotti or Passarotto.
Giambologna — — was a Flemish sculptor based in Italy, celebrated for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.
Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese. Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.
Alessandro Vittoria was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy.
Carlo Urbino was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.His style recalls the mannerist work of the Campi family: Antonio, Bernardino, and Giulio
Sister Plautilla Nelli was a self-taught nun-artist and the first-known female Renaissance painter of Florence, Italy.
Tintoretto was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Venetian school.
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.
Jacopo Bassano, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.
Daniele Ricciarelli, better known as Daniele da Volterra, was a Mannerist Italian painter and sculptor.
Vicente Juan Masip was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. He is commonly considered the foremost member of the Valencian school of painters.
Agnolo di Cosimo, usually known as Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino, was a Florentine Mannerist painter. His sobriquet, Bronzino, in all probability refers to his relatively dark skin.
Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.
Maerten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style.
Jacopo Carucci, usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School.
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino, or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.
Giulio Romano, also known as Giulio Pippi, was an Italian painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism.
Benvenuto Tisi (or Il Garofalo) was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este.
Giorgio Giulio Clovio or Juraj Julije Klović was an illuminator, miniaturist, and painter born in the Kingdom of Croatia, who was mostly active in Renaissance Italy.
Francesco Melzi, or Francesco de Melzi, was an Italian painter born into a family of the Milanese nobility in Lombardy. He was one of Leonardo da Vinci’s pupils.
Dosso Dossi, real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the School of Ferrara, painting in a style mainly influenced by Venetian painting, in particular Giorgione and early Titian.