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Leonardo da Vinci
Painter, draftsman and investigator of nature whose art joined exact observation to enigmatic psychological presence.
Caravaggio
A radical painter whose stark lighting and uncompromising models made religious scenes feel immediate and physical.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Painter and printmaker celebrated for portraits, history paintings and an unusually searching approach to character.
J. M. W. Turner
A British painter who pushed landscape toward light, atmosphere and near-abstraction while depicting a rapidly changing age.
Claude Monet
A central Impressionist who repeatedly painted the same places to study how atmosphere and light alter what we see.
Edgar Degas
An artist associated with Impressionism who focused on dancers, workers and urban interiors through sharply observed compositions.
Vincent van Gogh
A Post-Impressionist whose compressed career produced intensely colored landscapes, portraits and still lifes built from energetic brushwork.
Paul Cézanne
A painter whose structured landscapes and still lifes became a crucial bridge between nineteenth-century painting and modernism.
Gustav Klimt
Viennese painter whose decorative surfaces joined symbolism, portraiture and an unmistakable ornamental language.
Pablo Picasso
An extraordinarily prolific artist who helped launch Cubism and repeatedly transformed his own visual language across the twentieth century.
Wassily Kandinsky
A pioneer of abstraction who argued that color and form could act directly on perception without describing objects.