Famous Painters by Era

Every painter Fresco can ask you to name, from Giotto to Mondrian, with the years they lived. 5,030 public-domain paintings by 154 painters.

Early Renaissance14 painters · c. 1255 to 1510 Gold grounds give way to perspective in Florence and to oil painting in Flanders.

• Duccio di Buoninsegnac. 1255–1319
• Giotto di Bondonec. 1267–1337
• Robert Campinc. 1375–1444
• Jan van Eyckc. 1390–1441
• Fra Angelicoc. 1395–1455
• Paolo Uccello1397–1475
• Rogier van der Weydenc. 1399–1464
• Filippo Lippic. 1406–1469
• Piero della Francescac. 1415–1492
• Hans Memlingc. 1430–1494
• Andrea Mantegnac. 1431–1506
• Andrea del Verrocchioc. 1435–1488
• Sandro Botticellic. 1445–1510
• Domenico Ghirlandaio1448–1494

High Renaissance and Mannerism25 painters · c. 1430 to 1614 Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael in Italy, Dürer and Bruegel in the north, then the long figures of Mannerism.

• Giovanni Bellinic. 1430–1516
• Pietro Peruginoc. 1448–1523
• Hieronymus Boschc. 1450–1516
• Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519
• Quentin Massys1466–1530
• Albrecht Dürer1471–1528
• Lucas Cranach the Elder1472–1553
• Michelangelo1475–1564
• Giorgionec. 1477–1510
• Joachim Patinirc. 1480–1524
• Raphael1483–1520
• Titianc. 1488–1576
• Correggio1489–1534
• Jacopo Pontormo1494–1557
• Hans Holbein the Youngerc. 1497–1543
• Parmigianino1503–1540
• Agnolo Bronzino1503–1572
• François Clouetc. 1510–1572
• Jacopo Bassanoc. 1510–1592
• Giorgio Vasari1511–1574
• Jacopo Tintorettoc. 1518–1594
• Pieter Bruegel the Elderc. 1525–1569
• Giuseppe Arcimboldoc. 1527–1593
• Paolo Veronese1528–1588
• El Greco1541–1614

Baroque30 painters · 1560 to 1709 Caravaggio's light and shadow, Rubens in Antwerp, Velázquez in Madrid, and the Dutch Golden Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer.

• Annibale Carracci1560–1609
• Caravaggio1571–1610
• Guido Reni1575–1642
• Peter Paul Rubens1577–1640
• Frans Snyders1579–1657
• Frans Halsc. 1582–1666
• Jusepe de Ribera1591–1656
• Guercino1591–1666
• Georges de La Tour1593–1652
• Artemisia Gentileschi1593–1653
• Jacob Jordaens1593–1678
• Nicolas Poussin1594–1665
• Francisco de Zurbarán1598–1664
• Anthony van Dyck1599–1641
• Diego Velázquez1599–1660
• Claude Lorrainc. 1600–1682
• Philippe de Champaigne1602–1674
• Adriaen Brouwerc. 1605–1638
• Rembrandt1606–1669
• Jan Lievens1607–1674
• Gerrit Dou1613–1675
• Gerard ter Borch1617–1681
• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo1617–1682
• Charles Le Brun1619–1690
• Aelbert Cuyp1620–1691
• Jan Steenc. 1626–1679
• Jacob van Ruisdaelc. 1629–1682
• Pieter de Hooch1629–1683
• Johannes Vermeer1632–1675
• Meindert Hobbema1638–1709

Rococo and Neoclassicism20 painters · 1684 to 1842 Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard in France, Canaletto's Venice, the English portrait, then David's return to the antique.

• Antoine Watteau1684–1721
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1696–1770
• William Hogarth1697–1764
• Canaletto1697–1768
• Jean-Siméon Chardin1699–1779
• Pietro Longhi1701–1785
• François Boucher1703–1770
• Francesco Guardi1712–1792
• Joshua Reynolds1723–1792
• George Stubbs1724–1806
• Jean-Baptiste Greuze1725–1805
• Thomas Gainsborough1727–1788
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard1732–1806
• George Romney1734–1802
• John Singleton Copley1738–1815
• Benjamin West1738–1820
• Angelica Kauffman1741–1807
• Jacques-Louis David1748–1825
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1755–1842
• Thomas Lawrence1769–1830

Romanticism and Realism28 painters · 1746 to 1917 Goya, Turner and Delacroix, then Courbet and Millet painting ordinary life, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the Hudson River School.

• Francisco Goya1746–1828
• William Blake1757–1827
• Caspar David Friedrich1774–1840
• J. M. W. Turner1775–1851
• John Constable1776–1837
• Ingres1780–1867
• Théodore Géricault1791–1824
• Camille Corot1796–1875
• Paul Delaroche1797–1856
• Eugène Delacroix1798–1863
• Thomas Cole1801–1848
• Honoré Daumier1808–1879
• Jean-François Millet1814–1875
• Ivan Aivazovsky1817–1900
• Gustave Courbet1819–1877
• Jean-Léon Gérôme1824–1904
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau1825–1905
• Frederic Edwin Church1826–1900
• Arnold Böcklin1827–1901
• William Holman Hunt1827–1910
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti1828–1882
• John Everett Millais1829–1896
• Albert Bierstadt1830–1902
• Henri Fantin-Latour1836–1904
• Winslow Homer1836–1910
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema1836–1912
• Thomas Eakins1844–1916
• John William Waterhouse1849–1917

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism25 painters · 1824 to 1926 Monet and Renoir painting light out of doors, then Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin taking colour and form further.

• Eugène Boudin1824–1898
• Camille Pissarro1830–1903
• Édouard Manet1832–1883
• James McNeill Whistler1834–1903
• Edgar Degas1834–1917
• Alfred Sisley1839–1899
• Paul Cézanne1839–1906
• Odilon Redon1840–1916
• Claude Monet1840–1926
• Frédéric Bazille1841–1870
• Berthe Morisot1841–1895
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841–1919
• Henri Rousseau1844–1919
• Mary Cassatt1844–1926
• Gustave Caillebotte1848–1894
• Paul Gauguin1848–1903
• Vincent van Gogh1853–1890
• John Singer Sargent1856–1925
• Georges Seurat1859–1891
• Anders Zorn1860–1920
• Joaquín Sorolla1863–1923
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec1864–1901
• Vilhelm Hammershøi1864–1916
• Félix Vallotton1865–1925
• George Bellows1882–1925

Early Modernism12 painters · 1860 to 1944 Klimt and Schiele in Vienna, Munch, the Expressionists, and the first abstract painters: Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.

• Alphonse Mucha1860–1939
• Gustav Klimt1862–1918
• Edvard Munch1863–1944
• Wassily Kandinsky1866–1944
• Piet Mondrian1872–1944
• Kazimir Malevich1879–1935
• Paul Klee1879–1940
• Franz Marc1880–1916
• Umberto Boccioni1882–1916
• Amedeo Modigliani1884–1920
• August Macke1887–1914
• Egon Schiele1890–1918