A LIST OF SIGNIFICANT PAINTERS

Any list or study of individual painters

will have to start with 15th century
when the rise of the middle made
possible individual patronage and
painters signed their works for the
first time.
 THE

FIFTEENTH

CENTURY
THE VAN EYCK BROTHERS - WERE
THE GREATEST PAINTERS OF THE FIRST HALF
CENTURY.

Jan Van Eyck his outstanding

contribution was his attention to detail
by which he portrayed the solidity and
splendor of material objects.
The Arnolfini Portrait
is a 1434 oil painting on
oak panel by the Early
Netherlandish painter
Jan van Eyck. It forms a
full-length double
portrait, believed to
depict the Italian
merchant Giovanni di
Nicolao Arnolfini and his
wife, presuJan Van Eyck
Hubert Van Eyck - was concentrated
on landscape to show the atmospheric
wonder of the world.
Roger Van Der Weyden - continued the
traditions of Jan Van Eyck. More emotional than his
predecessors he composed with strong rhythmic
diagonals and vivid facial expressions.

Pietà probably about 1465

Oil with egg tempera on oak
Roger Van Der Weyden
Hieronymus Bosch - concentrated on the
macabre the superstitious and the exaggerated. His
paintings display a careful observance of formal pattern
and symmetrical balance in composition

The Adoration of the

Magi or The Epiphany
is a triptych oil
painting on wood panel
by the Netherlandish
artist Hieronymus
Bosch, executed
around 1485-1500.
RENAISSANCE ART:
Giotto (1266-1336) - student of Cimabue and he introduce
individual reactions in facial expression, gesture and stance he
also introduced mass his groupings are solemn, the bodies solid,
the faces child like, he was very influential to later artists.

The Trial by Fire of st francis

The arrest of Christ offers to walk through fire to
and kiss of judas convert the sultan of egypt 1297)
 Sandro Botticelli (1447-1510) - he painted Neo
Platonist abstractions in the guise of classic nude. his contours
were sharp and elongated. Every detail is animated by mood and
expression. He is the most idiosyncratic of his group.

The Punishment of Korah and Venus and Mars

the Stoning of Moses and Aaron
(1481-1482)
THE 16TH CENTURY WAS DOMINATED BY GIANTS:
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) - a universal genius who practiced
every art form and every science, he is the epitome of the
“Renaissance man.” In his paintings, outercalm hides inner tension.
In the “Mona Lisa,” the calm triangular position, calm hands and
quizzical mysterious smile contrast with sharp rocks and the romantic
land scape behind her.
 Michael Angelo Bounarotti (1475-1564) the greatest
stone carver since the classical period.he exalted the nudes as
did the ancient Greeks. His paintings and frescoes in the Sistine
chapel are sculpturesque with strong outlines and colors filled
in. he twisted bodies, distorts and exaggerates anatomy for
emotional effects.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by
Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a
cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The
ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel, the large
papal chapel built within the Vatican between
1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the
The Last Judgment is a fresco by the Italian
Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the
whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican
City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of
Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of
all humani
 Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) was taught by his father and Perugino. His
paintings display a great gentleness of expression and idealization. He
absorbed all the characteristics of Perugino and incorporated the
chiaroscuro and triangular composition of Leonardo. In Rome he absorbed
Michael angelo’s more dramatic presentations of the human body. His
Madonnas are sweet and gentle without psychological depth. And his
paintings are technically Considered the best expression of high
Renaissance painting With the renaissance, there developed the venetian school

The Madonna del Prato, formally
Madonna with the Christ Child and
Saint John the Baptist, is a 1506
painting by Raphael,
The School of Athens is a fresco by the Italian
Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between
1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to
decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di
Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican
Giorgione (1478-1510) introduce the so called Titan Red and the
new emphasis upon landscape in which human figures are incidental
and serve as color. He is the first painter who modeled his painting
in color rather than by drawing them in line and outline. He painted
on canvas with brown underpainting and glazes.

The Adoration of the Shepherds, sometimes

still known as the Allendale Nativity - is a
painting by the Italian Renaissance painter
Giorgione, completed in about 1505 to 1510
The Tempest is a Renaissance
painting by the Italian master
Giorgione dated between 1506
and 1508.
 Titian (1477-1576) his painting display an increased
movement, emotion and sensuality. His compositions
are diagonal with much use of texture.

The Assumption of the Virgin Bacchus and Ariadne is an oil

or Frari Assumption is a large painting by Titian. It is one of a cycle
altarpiece panel painting in oils by of paintings on mythological subjects
the Italian Renaissance artist produced for Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of
Titian, painted in 1515–18 Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro
Tintoretto (1518-1594) set compositions into deep
receding space and used complex spatial arrangements
illuminated with flickering light. For this he is
considered early baroque

The Last Supper is a painting by the Italian

Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto. An oil painting on
canvas executed in 1592–94, it is housed in the Basilica
di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, northern Italy
Baroque Art Italians:
Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) along with Tintoretto, he developed a
monumental style in mural painting. His paintings display an
unsurpassed quality of intricate rhythmical structure.

The Wedding Feast at Cana, by

the Italian artist Paolo Veronese, is a Feast at the House of
representational painting that
depicts the biblical story of the Simon - 1567-1570
Marriage at Cana, at which Jesus
converts water to wine
Caravaggio (1573-1610) was a keen student of nature who
made use of live models rather than ideas. His figures have
plasticity. In many of his pictures, a single shaft of light picks
out a detail like a cheekbone.

The Supper at Emmaus is a The Martyrdom of Saint

painting by the Italian Baroque Matthew is a painting by the
master Caravaggio, executed in
1601, and now in the National Italian master Michelangelo
Gallery in London. Merisi da Caravaggio
Giovanni Bernini ( 1598-1680) he was also an architect-
sculptor who achieved in the tri-dimensional form what
others achieved in color.
The Low Country:
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) synthesized the styles
of Caravaggio and the Carracci. Stressed the heroic, the
Grand, in mythological as well as religious paintings.
Rembrandt (1606-1669) one of the outstanding artist of
the world and the last of the religious painters, he
assimilated the color and light shadow effects of 16th and
17th century Venetian painters.

The Return of the Prodigal Son The Jewish Bride is a painting by

is an oil painting by Rembrandt. It
is among the Dutch master's final
works, likely completed within two
years of his death in 1669
Rembrandt, painted around 1667. The
painting gained its current name in the early
19th century, when an Amsterdam art
collector identified the subject as that of a
Jewish father
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) intimate observer of textures and
interiors, contrasted the soft contours of his figures with the angular
elements of table, picture and window. His interiors are bathed in
cool blues and whites and his juxtapositions create serene scenes in
which women pursue their daily tasks. Extremely color conscious, he
is the last of the Dutch genre painters.

View of Delft is an oil painting by Jan
Vermeer, painted 1660–1661. The
painting of the Dutch artist's hometown
is among his most popular, painted at a
time when cityscapes were uncommon
The Little Street is a painting by the Dutch
painter Johannes Vermeer, executed c. 1657–58.
It is exhibited at the Rijksmuseum of
Amsterdam, and signed on the left hand corner
below the window
Spanish:
El Greco ( 1547-1614) he elongated his figures and distorted
them in a flame like impression. Light leaps from figure to
figure; sometimes, vast spaces are lit by streaks of lightning.

View of Toledo, is one of the two

surviving landscapes painted by El
Greco. The other, View and Plan of
Toledo, View of Toledo is among the
best known depictions of the sky in
Western art
Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) the most important 17th
century spanish painter. He derives his style from
Caravaggio but he had more sublety and tonality. His
portraits are penetrating revelations of his sitters.
Impressionism:
Edouard Manet – although not as sensual as Giorgione, he
presents an element of shock by the confromtation of dressed
men with nude women. His shimmering use of color marks him
as an Impressionist.
Camille Pisarro – one of the leading pioneers of Impressionism. A
landscapist, he developed the theories of broken color, small brush
strokes, and vibrating surfaces. He anticipated the principle of
peripheral vision. He was less interested in atmospheric effects
rather on colorific effets.
Claude Monet – mature Impressionist who coined
the term.
Edgar Degas – disciplined craftsman who preferred indoor to outdoor
painting. He adopted the high key and broken colors of the Impressionists,
but he concentrated on the human figure and ballet dancers. He preferred
pastel shades that give luminous effects, and placed his subjects off center.
This last was an influence of Japanese painting.
Henri Toulouse Lautrec- skillfull draftsman, sharp
observer of women in dance hall and cabarets. He adopted
the flat two dimensional painting of Japanese prints with
sensitive black outlines and exaggerated gestures.