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European Masters of Art

	Description	Artist
*How many of these masters do you know?*
34.	Was the most important of the French Romantic painters. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. His most influential work came in 1830 with the painting of an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty and freedom.	Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
33.	A Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England and is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court. Painted many portraits of men with the short, pointed beards then in fashion; consequently this particular kind of beard was much later (probably first in America in the 19th century) was given his name.	Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
32.	Prolific Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries whose works depict sin and human moral failings. He used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. His most famous work is 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'.	Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516)
31.	A Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art. 'The Scream' (1893), his best-known painting, is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life, in which he explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy.	Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
30.	He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. His sumptuous coloring and fluent, atmospheric landscapes had a great effect on the Venetian painting school, especially on his pupils Giorgione and Titian. One of his last paintings, 'The Feast of the Gods', ranks among the gems of the High Renaissance. It was completed by his disciple, Titian.	Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516)
29.	He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His 'The Abduction of Europa' (1632) is considered to be "...a shining example of the golden age of baroque painting". Believed to have suffered from suffered from stereo blindness, which enabled him to flatten images he saw.	Rembrandt (1606-1669)
28.	Was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting 'Impression, Sunrise'.	Claude Monet (1840-1926)
27.	Probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art. A comparison of his final 'The Last Supper' with Leonardo da Vinci's treatment of the same subject provides an instructive demonstration of how artistic styles evolved over the course of the Renaissance.	Tintoretto (1518-1594)
26.	Dutch Post-Impressionist artist most of whose best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. Is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism and had an enormous influence on 20th century art.	Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
25.	Was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. When compared to contemporaries Michelangelo and Titian, he was sometimes considered inferior; at the same time, it was maintained that none of them shared all the qualities possessed by him, "ease" in particular.	Raphael (1483–1520)
24.	A Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he created scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece, Las Meninas (1656). His artwork was a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet. Since that time, more modern artists, including Spain's Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, have paid tribute to him by recreating several of his most famous works.	Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)
23.	On par with Jan van Eyck, considered one of the greatest Flemish and Northern European painters of the 15th century. His most famous paintings were the four vast panels with the 'Justice of Trajan' and the 'Justice of Herkenbald', painted for the 'Gulden Camere' (Golden Chamber) of the Brussels Town Hall.	Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400– 1464)
22.	Spanish court painter regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. His most famous painting depicts an incident in the Spanish war of liberation.	Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
21.	Known as the "Father of Impressionism", he painted rural and urban French life, particularly landscapes in and around Pontoise, as well as scenes from Montmartre. His mature work displays an empathy for peasants and laborers, and sometimes evidences his radical political leanings. He was a mentor to Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin and his example inspired many younger artists, including Californian Impressionist Lucy Bacon.	Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
20.	An English Romantic painter, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home. His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821.	John Constable (1776-1837)
19.	An Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. His three paintings done to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall in the University of Vienna were not displayed due to their erotic nature and were later destroyed by SS forces in WWII. His 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I' sold for $135 million in 2006.	Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
18.	A French painter and the founder of Neo-impressionism. His large work 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' is one of the icons of 19th century painting.	Georges Seurat (1859–1891)
17.	His work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and 'The Birth of Venus' and 'Primavera' rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art. His name translates as 'little barrel' in Italian.	Sandro Botticelli (1444/45–1510)
16.	French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. One of his most important works is 'Burial at Ornans'. Towards the end of his life, he painted a series of increasingly erotic works, culminating in The Origin of the World (L'Origine du monde), depicting female genitalia.	Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
15.	Generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. His masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, commonly called the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the life of the Virgin and the passion of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.	Giotto (c.1267-1337)
14.	Widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Two of his works occupy unique positions as the most famous, the most illustrated and most imitated portrait and religious painting of all time. Of his works, perhaps only 15 paintings survive.	Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
13.	Was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. During his lifetime he was often called Da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth and as 'the sun amidst small stars' (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso). The name of a color is derived from the artist's frequent use of brownish orange, especially for the hair of his early idealized portraits of courtesans.	Titian (1485-1576)
12.	He is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. Best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western civilization. Epitomizing the general consensus of his impact, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, said in April 1980 that he was "the most extraordinary painter that ever came along back then" and that he was "maybe three or four centuries ahead of his time".	El Greco (1541-1614)
11.	A prolific and important painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as 'The Wedding at Cana' and 'The Feast in the House of Levi'. He along with Titian, and Tintoretto comprise the triumvirate of pre-eminent Venetian painters of the late Renaissance (1500s).	Veronese (1528–1588)
10.	Along with Rembrandt and Goya, he is considered one of the greatest creators of old master prints. His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497–1498) from the Apocalypse series, the "Rhinoceros", and numerous self-portraits.	Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
9.	A prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. Was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, king of Spain, and Charles I, king of England. As many of his paintings feature full-figured, voluptuous women, a word meaning plump or fleshy, yet not "fat," and used exclusively to describe women is derived from his last name.	Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
8.	French artist who can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. His explorations of geometric simplification and optical phenomena inspired Picasso, Braque, Gris, and others to experiment with ever more complex multiple views of the same subject, and, eventually, to the fracturing of form. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso is that he "is the father of us all".	Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
7.	English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although renowned for his oils, he is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light". One of his most famous oil paintings is 'The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up', which was voted in 2005 to be the greatest painting in a British art gallery.	J.M.W.Turner (1775-1851)
6.	A 15th century Dutch painter from the school of Early Netherlandish painting. It is commonly but mistakenly believed that he invented oil painting. His masterworks include 'Ghent Altarpiece' and 'Annunciation'.	Jan van Eyck (c. 1385 – 1441)
5.	His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. A substantial part of his collection is displayed in the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage. His life inspired Somerset Maugham to write 'The Moon and Sixpence'.	Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
4.	French painter of the 19th century best known for his portrayals of life at the Moulin Rouge and other Montmartre and Parisian cabaret and theaters.	Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
3.	A leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that he "is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". One of the best known Impressionist works is his 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette) that depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.	Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
2.	French artist regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he objected to the term. One of his famous sculpture's is 'Little Dancer of Fourteen Years' made of wax.	Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
1.	French painter who was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks 'The Luncheon on the Grass' and 'Olympia' engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.	Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
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