224 Famous Painters

Six centuries, from the Renaissance to Pop Art. Open any painter to learn the one visual tell that gives their style away — then prove it in the daily quiz.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Symbolism · 1865–1931Albert Bierstadt
Romanticism · 1830–1902Albert Marquet
Fauvism · 1875–1947Albrecht Altdorfer
Northern Renaissance · c. 1480–1538Albrecht Dürer
Northern Renaissance · 1471–1528Alexandre Cabanel
Academic art · 1823–1889Alexei Savrasov
Realism · 1830–1897Alfred Sisley
Impressionism · 1839–1899Alphonse Mucha
Art Nouveau · Amedeo Modigliani
Expressionism · 1884–1920Anders Zorn
Impressionism · 1860–1920Andrea del Sarto
Renaissance · 1486–1530Andrea Mantegna
Renaissance · 1431–1506Andy Warhol
Pop Art · 1928–1987Angelica Kauffmann
Neoclassicism · 1741–1807Annibale Carracci
Baroque · 1560–1609Anthony van Dyck
Baroque · 1599–1641Antoine Watteau
Rococo · 1684–1721Antonello da Messina
Renaissance · c. 1430–1479Arkhip Kuindzhi
Realism · 1842–1910Arnold Böcklin
Symbolism · 1827–1901Artemisia Gentileschi
Baroque · 1593–1653August Macke
Expressionism · 1887–1914Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Baroque · 1617–1682Benjamin West
Neoclassicism · 1738–1820Bernardo Bellotto
Veduta · 1722–1780Berthe Morisot
Impressionism · 1841–1895Boris Kustodiev
Realism · 1878–1927Bronzino
Mannerism · 1503–1572Camille Corot
Realism · 1796–1875Camille Pissarro
Impressionism · 1830–1903Canaletto
Veduta · 1697–1768Caravaggio
Baroque · 1571–1610Carlo Crivelli
Renaissance · c. 1430–1495Caspar David Friedrich
Romanticism · 1774–1840Childe Hassam
Impressionism · 1859–1935Christian Krohg
Realism · 1852–1925Cima da Conegliano
Renaissance · c. 1459–1517Claude Lorrain
Baroque · 1600–1682Claude Monet
Impressionism · 1840–1926Correggio
Renaissance · 1489–1534Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite · 1828–1882David Alfaro Siqueiros
Muralism · 1896–1974Diego Rivera
Muralism · 1886–1957Diego Velázquez
Baroque · 1599–1660Domenico Ghirlandaio
Renaissance · 1448–1494Dosso Dossi
Renaissance · c. 1490–1542Edgar Degas
Impressionism · 1834–1917Edvard Munch
Symbolism · 1863–1944Edward Hopper
American Realism · 1882–1967Edwin Landseer
Romanticism · 1802–1873Egon Schiele
Expressionism · 1890–1918El Greco
Mannerism · 1541–1614Emanuel Leutze
Romanticism · 1816–1868Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Expressionism · 1880–1938Eugène Delacroix
Romanticism · 1798–1863Federico Barocci
Mannerism · 1535–1612Ferdinand Hodler
Symbolism · 1853–1918Filippino Lippi
Renaissance · 1457–1504Filippo Lippi
Renaissance · c. 1406–1469Fra Angelico
Renaissance · c. 1395–1455Francesco Guardi
Veduta · 1712–1793Francesco Hayez
Romanticism · 1791–1882Francisco de Zurbarán
Baroque · 1598–1664Francisco Goya
Romanticism · 1746–1828Frans Hals
Baroque · c. 1582–1666Franz Marc
Expressionism · 1880–1916François Boucher
Rococo · 1703–1770François Gérard
Neoclassicism · 1770–1837Frederic Edwin Church
Romanticism · 1826–1900Frederic Leighton
Academic art · 1830–1896Frida Kahlo
Surrealism · 1907–1954Frits Thaulow
Impressionism · 1847–1906Félix Vallotton
Post-Impressionism · 1865–1925Georges Braque
Cubism · 1882–1963Georges de La Tour
Baroque · 1593–1652Georges Seurat
Post-Impressionism · 1859–1891Georgia O'Keeffe
American Modernism · 1887–1986Gerard David
Northern Renaissance · c. 1460–1523Gerard ter Borch
Baroque · 1617–1681Gerard van Honthorst
Baroque · 1592–1656Gerrit Dou
Baroque · 1613–1675Giorgione
Renaissance · c. 1478–1510Giotto di Bondone
Proto-Renaissance · c. 1267–1337Giovanni Battista Moroni
Renaissance · 1525–1578Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Rococo · 1696–1770Giovanni Bellini
Renaissance · c. 1430–1516Giovanni Boldini
Realism · 1842–1931Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Mannerism · 1526–1593Grant Wood
American Realism · 1891–1942Guercino
Baroque · 1591–1666Guido Reni
Baroque · 1575–1642Gustave Caillebotte
Impressionism · 1848–1894Gustave Courbet
Realism · 1819–1877Gustave Moreau
Symbolism · 1826–1898Gustav Klimt
Symbolism · 1862–1918Hans Baldung Grien
Northern Renaissance · 1484–1545Hans Holbein the Younger
Northern Renaissance · 1497–1543Hans Makart
Academic art · 1840–1884Hans Memling
Northern Renaissance · c. 1430–1494Harald Sohlberg
Symbolism · 1869–1935Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism · 1864–1901Henri Matisse
Fauvism · 1869–1954Henri Rousseau
Naïve art · 1844–1910Henry Fuseli
Romanticism · 1741–1825Hieronymus Bosch
Northern Renaissance · c. 1450–1516Horace Vernet
Romanticism · 1789–1863Hugo Simberg
Symbolism · 1873–1917Hugo van der Goes
Northern Renaissance · c. 1440–1482Hyacinthe Rigaud
Baroque · 1659–1743Ilya Repin
Realism · 1844–1930Isaac Levitan
Realism · 1860–1900Ivan Aivazovsky
Romanticism · 1817–1900Ivan Kramskoi
Realism · 1837–1887Ivan Shishkin
Realism · 1832–1898J.M.W. Turner
Romanticism · 1775–1851Jacek Malczewski
Symbolism · 1854–1929Jackson Pollock
Abstract Expressionism · 1912–1956Jacob Jordaens
Baroque · 1593–1678Jacob van Ruisdael
Baroque · c. 1629–1682Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassicism · 1748–1825James Ensor
Expressionism · 1860–1949James McNeill Whistler
Aestheticism · 1834–1903Jan Matejko
Academic art · 1838–1893Jan Steen
Baroque · c. 1626–1679Jan van Eyck
Northern Renaissance · c. 1390–1441Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Neoclassicism · 1780–1867Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Rococo · 1699–1779Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Rococo · 1725–1805Jean-François Millet
Realism · 1814–1875Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Rococo · 1732–1806Jean-Léon Gérôme
Academic art · 1824–1904Jean-Michel Basquiat
Neo-Expressionism · 1960–1988Joan Miró
Surrealism · 1893–1983Joaquín Sorolla
Impressionism · 1863–1923Johannes Vermeer
Baroque · 1632–1675John Constable
Romanticism · 1776–1837John Everett Millais
Pre-Raphaelite · 1829–1896John Singer Sargent
Realism · 1856–1925John Singleton Copley
Neoclassicism · 1738–1815John William Waterhouse
Pre-Raphaelite · 1849–1917Joseph Wright of Derby
Romanticism · 1734–1797Joshua Reynolds
Neoclassicism · 1723–1792José Clemente Orozco
Muralism · 1883–1949Jusepe de Ribera
Baroque · 1591–1652Józef Chełmoński
Realism · 1849–1914Karl Bryullov
Romanticism · 1799–1852Katsushika Hokusai
Ukiyo-e · 1760–1849Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism · 1879–1935Kitagawa Utamaro
Ukiyo-e · 1753–1806Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Academic art · 1836–1912Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance · 1452–1519Lorenzo Lotto
Renaissance · 1480–1556Lovis Corinth
Expressionism · 1858–1925Luca Giordano
Baroque · 1634–1705Lucas Cranach the Elder
Northern Renaissance · 1472–1553Luca Signorelli
Renaissance · c. 1450–1523Maarten van Heemskerck
Mannerism · 1498–1574Marc Chagall
Surrealism · 1887–1985Mark Rothko
Abstract Expressionism · 1903–1970Mary Cassatt
Impressionism · 1844–1926Masaccio
Renaissance · 1401–1428Matthias Grünewald
Northern Renaissance · c. 1470–1528Max Ernst
Surrealism · 1891–1976Michelangelo
Renaissance · 1475–1564Mikhail Vrubel
Symbolism · 1856–1910Moretto da Brescia
Renaissance · c. 1498–1554Nicolas Poussin
Baroque · 1594–1665Odilon Redon
Symbolism · 1840–1916Oskar Kokoschka
Expressionism · 1886–1980Osman Hamdi Bey
Academic art · 1842–1910Pablo Picasso
Cubism · 1881–1973Paolo Veronese
Renaissance · 1528–1588Parmigianino
Mannerism · 1503–1540Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism · 1839–1906Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism · 1848–1903Paul Klee
Expressionism · 1879–1940Paul Signac
Post-Impressionism · 1863–1935Peter Paul Rubens
Baroque · 1577–1640Petrus Christus
Northern Renaissance · c. 1410–1475Philippe de Champaigne
Baroque · 1602–1674Piero della Francesca
Renaissance · c. 1415–1492Piero di Cosimo
Renaissance · 1462–1522Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism · 1841–1919Pierre Bonnard
Post-Impressionism · 1867–1947Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Symbolism · 1824–1898Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Northern Renaissance · c. 1525–1569Pieter de Hooch
Baroque · 1629–1684Piet Mondrian
Abstract · 1872–1944Pietro Perugino
Renaissance · 1448–1523Pontormo
Mannerism · 1494–1557Quinten Metsys
Northern Renaissance · 1466–1530Raphael
Renaissance · 1483–1520Rembrandt van Rijn
Baroque · 1606–1669René Magritte
Surrealism · 1898–1967Rogier van der Weyden
Northern Renaissance · c. 1399–1464Salvador Dalí
Surrealism · 1904–1989Sandro Botticelli
Renaissance · c. 1445–1510Sarah Goodridge
Romanticism · 1788–1853Sebastiano del Piombo
Renaissance · c. 1485–1547Thomas Cole
Romanticism · 1801–1848Thomas Eakins
American Realism · 1844–1916Thomas Gainsborough
Rococo · 1727–1788Théodore Géricault
Romanticism · 1791–1824Tintoretto
Mannerism · 1518–1594Titian
Renaissance · c. 1488–1576Tōshūsai Sharaku
Ukiyo-e · active 1794–1795Utagawa Hiroshige
Ukiyo-e · 1797–1858Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Ukiyo-e · 1797–1861Valentin Serov
Realism · 1865–1911Vasily Polenov
Realism · 1844–1927Vasily Surikov
Realism · 1848–1916Vasily Vereshchagin
Realism · 1842–1904Viktor Vasnetsov
Romanticism · 1848–1926Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism · 1853–1890Vittore Carpaccio
Renaissance · 1465–1526Wassily Kandinsky
Abstract · 1866–1944Willem van de Velde the Younger
Baroque · 1633–1707William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Academic art · 1825–1905William Blake
Romanticism · 1757–1827William Hogarth
Rococo · 1697–1764Winslow Homer
American Realism · 1836–1910Édouard Manet
Impressionism · 1832–1883Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Rococo · 1755–1842