Artists
84 artists across 6 periods of art history.
Ancient Art
c. 3000 BCE - 400 CE
Phidias
Greek · c. 480 BC–c. 430 BC
The greatest sculptor of Classical Greece, whose monumental chryselephantine statues and direction of the Parthenon sculptures defined the visual ideals of the ancient world.
Praxiteles
Greek · c. 400 BC–c. 330 BC
The Athenian sculptor who revolutionized Greek art by introducing a softer, more sensuous approach to the human figure, creating the first monumental female nude in Western art.
Medieval Art
c. 400 - 1400
Andrei Rublev
Russian · c. 1360–c. 1430
The greatest Russian icon painter, whose luminous Trinity icon represents the pinnacle of medieval Orthodox art and spirituality.
Cimabue
Italian · c. 1240–c. 1302
The last great painter of the Byzantine-influenced Italian tradition, whose innovations in naturalism paved the way for Giotto and the Renaissance.
Giotto di Bondone
Italian · c.1267–1337
The revolutionary Florentine painter who broke from flat Byzantine convention to create figures of naturalistic weight, emotion, and spatial depth, earning recognition as the father of Western painting.
Renaissance
c. 1400 - 1600
Albrecht Dürer
German · 1471–1528
The supreme artist of the Northern Renaissance, whose mastery of printmaking, painting, and theoretical writing bridged Italian and Northern European traditions.
Donatello
Italian · c. 1386–1466
The founder of modern sculpture, whose revolutionary naturalism and psychological intensity defined the artistic ideals of the Early Renaissance.
El Greco
Greek-Spanish · 1541–1614
The Cretan-born visionary who forged an intensely personal style of elongated figures, electric colour, and mystical fervour in Counter-Reformation Spain.
Fra Angelico
Italian · c. 1395–1455
The Dominican friar whose luminous frescoes and altarpieces combined devout spirituality with the new Renaissance mastery of perspective, light, and colour.
Giovanni Bellini
Italian · c. 1430–1516
The founding master of the Venetian Renaissance, whose pioneering use of oil painting and luminous colour transformed Italian art.
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch · c. 1450–1516
The visionary Netherlandish painter whose fantastical imagery of hell, temptation, and human folly remains among the most enigmatic and disturbing in Western art.
Jan van Eyck
Flemish · c. 1390–1441
The Flemish master who perfected oil painting technique, achieving an unprecedented luminosity and microscopic realism that astonished the Renaissance world.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian · 1452–1519
The archetypal Renaissance genius — painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, and visionary.
Masaccio
Italian · 1401–1428
The revolutionary young painter who introduced systematic perspective, volumetric form, and unified lighting to Western art, dying at just twenty-six.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italian · 1475–1564
A towering figure of the Renaissance whose mastery of sculpture, painting, and architecture remains unsurpassed.
Parmigianino
Italian · 1503–1540
The quintessential Mannerist painter, whose elegant distortions and refined grace epitomize the sophisticated, intellectualized art of sixteenth-century Italy.
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Italian · 1483–1520
The supreme synthesizer of the High Renaissance whose harmonious compositions and graceful figures set the standard for Western painting for centuries.
Sandro Botticelli
Italian · 1445–1510
A Florentine master whose graceful, lyrical paintings of mythological and religious subjects defined Early Renaissance beauty.
Tintoretto
Italian · 1518–1594
The most dramatic painter of the Venetian Renaissance, whose explosive compositions, daring perspectives, and theatrical lighting pushed painting toward the Baroque.
Titian
Italian · c. 1488–1576
The supreme colourist of the Venetian Renaissance, whose revolutionary painterly technique influenced centuries of European art from Rubens to the Impressionists.
Baroque & Rococo
c. 1600 - 1780
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian · 1593–c. 1656
The most important female painter of the Baroque era, whose visceral depictions of biblical heroines challenged the male gaze with unprecedented power and agency.
Diego Velázquez
Spanish · 1599–1660
The master painter of the Spanish Golden Age, whose unprecedented naturalism and compositional genius made Las Meninas the most analyzed painting in Western art.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian · 1598–1680
The supreme artist of the Roman Baroque whose sculptures, architecture, and theatrical ensembles transformed Rome into a stage for Catholic Counter-Reformation splendor.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French · 1732–1806
The last great master of the Rococo, whose exuberant brushwork and scenes of love and pleasure embodied the spirit of pre-Revolutionary France.
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch · 1632–1675
Master of light and silence, Vermeer created luminous domestic scenes of such quiet perfection they seem to stop time.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Italian · 1571–1610
A revolutionary and a fugitive — Caravaggio's dramatic use of light and dark changed the course of European painting.
Nicolas Poussin
French · 1594–1665
The intellectual master of French classical painting, whose rigorously composed mythological and biblical scenes established the rational ideals of French art.
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish · 1577–1640
The Flemish Baroque master whose monumental canvases of dynamic flesh, explosive movement, and vibrant color made him the most sought-after painter in Europe and a trusted diplomat for the Spanish Crown.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch · 1606–1669
The greatest Dutch master, renowned for his portraits of extraordinary psychological depth and his innovative use of light.
Modern Art
c. 1780 - 1945
Antonio Canova
Italian · 1757–1822
The greatest Neoclassical sculptor, whose idealized marble figures achieved a sensuous perfection that rivalled the masterworks of ancient Greece.
Auguste Rodin
French · 1840–1917
The father of modern sculpture who shattered academic conventions with emotionally charged, roughly textured figures that bridged nineteenth-century tradition and twentieth-century expressionism.
Berthe Morisot
French · 1841–1895
A founding member of the Impressionist movement whose luminous, freely brushed paintings of domestic life and women's experience brought intimacy and psychological depth to the group.
Camille Pissarro
French · 1830–1903
The elder statesman of Impressionism, whose generous mentorship, political convictions, and unwavering commitment to painting from nature anchored the entire movement.
Caspar David Friedrich
German · 1774–1840
The supreme German Romantic landscape painter, whose solitary figures before vast, sublime natural vistas gave visual form to the spiritual yearnings of an age.
Christian Dior
French · 1905–1957
Christian Dior's 1947 'New Look' collection single-handedly redirected Western fashion after World War II, replacing wartime austerity with a hyper-feminine silhouette of nipped waists and full skirts that celebrated post-war optimism and restored Paris to its position as the world's fashion capital.
Claude Monet
French · 1840–1926
The founder and most consistent practitioner of Impressionism, dedicated to capturing the ever-changing effects of light.
Coco Chanel
French · 1883–1971
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel revolutionized 20th-century fashion by liberating women from the corset, pioneering jersey sportswear, and establishing the principle that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Her little black dress, the Chanel suit, and Chanel No. 5 remain defining icons of modern design.
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Spanish · 1895–1972
Cristóbal Balenciaga was considered the supreme technician of haute couture — a genius of construction whom Christian Dior called 'the master of us all.' His architectural silhouettes, cut and constructed entirely by himself without dressmaker's pins, revolutionized the art of fashion and gave fabric a sculptural life of its own.
Diego Rivera
Mexican · 1886–1957
The towering figure of Mexican muralism, whose monumental public paintings celebrated indigenous culture, workers' struggles, and revolutionary politics.
Edgar Degas
French · 1834–1917
A master draftsman who captured modern Parisian life through radically cropped compositions, best known for his intimate depictions of ballet dancers and the world of the stage.
Édouard Manet
French · 1832–1883
The pivotal figure between Realism and Impressionism, whose bold compositions and flat, direct painting technique scandalised the art establishment and launched modern art.
Edvard Munch
Norwegian · 1863–1944
The Norwegian painter whose anguished, psychologically charged images of anxiety, death, and desire made him a founding figure of Expressionism.
Edward Hopper
American · 1882–1967
The painter of American solitude, whose stark, cinematic compositions of empty diners, lonely gas stations, and sunlit rooms defined the visual poetry of modern urban alienation.
Egon Schiele
Austrian · 1890–1918
The Austrian Expressionist prodigy whose raw, contorted figure drawings and unflinching self-portraits pushed the boundaries of bodily representation.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Italian · 1890–1973
Elsa Schiaparelli brought Surrealism into fashion with an audacity that has never been equalled, collaborating with Dalí and Cocteau to create garments that were simultaneously wearable objects and conceptual art. Her Lobster Dress, Shoe Hat, and Skeleton Dress remain among the most iconic objects in the history of dress.
Eugène Delacroix
French · 1798–1863
The leader of the French Romantic movement, whose passionate colour, dynamic compositions, and exotic subjects challenged the classical establishment.
Francisco Goya
Spanish · 1746–1828
The last Old Master and the first modern artist, whose unflinching depictions of war, madness, and human cruelty bridged the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Frida Kahlo
Mexican · 1907–1954
The Mexican painter whose searingly personal self-portraits transformed physical suffering, cultural identity, and female experience into universal symbols of resilience and defiance.
Georges Seurat
French · 1859–1891
The inventor of Pointillism, whose scientific approach to colour and composition transformed fleeting Impressionist observation into monumental, timeless order.
Georgia O'Keeffe
American · 1887–1986
The mother of American modernism, whose monumental flower paintings and stark Southwestern landscapes forged a uniquely American artistic vision.
Gustav Klimt
Austrian · 1862–1918
The founder of the Vienna Secession whose golden, ornament-laden paintings fused Byzantine splendor with fin-de-siecle eroticism to create some of the most iconic images of the modern era.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French · 1864–1901
The aristocratic painter of Montmartre nightlife whose bold lithographic posters and incisive portraits of dancers, performers, and prostitutes defined fin-de-siècle Paris.
Henri Matisse
French · 1869–1954
The revolutionary leader of the Fauves and one of the twentieth century's greatest colourists, whose lifelong pursuit of decorative harmony produced some of modern art's most joyful images.
J.M.W. Turner
British · 1775–1851
The revolutionary British painter whose increasingly abstract explorations of light, colour, and atmosphere anticipated Impressionism and modern abstraction.
Jacques-Louis David
French · 1748–1825
The dominant painter of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era, whose austere Neoclassical style made art a vehicle for political ideology.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French · 1780–1867
The supreme draughtsman of nineteenth-century France, whose sinuous line and sensual idealization bridged Neoclassicism and modern art.
Marc Chagall
Russian-French · 1887–1985
The Russian-French painter whose dreamy, gravity-defying scenes of shtetl life, lovers, and biblical subjects created a uniquely poetic visual universe.
Marcel Duchamp
French-American · 1887–1968
The most intellectually radical artist of the twentieth century, whose readymades and conceptual provocations redefined what art could be.
Mary Cassatt
American · 1844–1926
The American painter who became a leading figure of French Impressionism, renowned for her psychologically acute portrayals of mothers and children.
Pablo Picasso
Spanish · 1881–1973
Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Picasso co-invented Cubism and constantly reinvented his style.
Paul Cézanne
French · 1839–1906
The father of modern art, whose structural approach to colour and form bridged Impressionism and Cubism, earning him the title 'the painter's painter.'
Paul Gauguin
French · 1848–1903
The restless Post-Impressionist who abandoned European civilization for Tahiti, creating boldly coloured, symbolically charged paintings that influenced Fauvism and Expressionism.
Paul Poiret
French · 1879–1944
Paul Poiret was the first great modern designer — the man who abolished the corset in 1906 and replaced it with an orientalist fantasy of loose, flowing garments inspired by Japan, Persia, and Ancient Egypt. He invented the concept of total lifestyle design and the designer fashion show, shaping the template that Chanel and Dior would inherit.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French · 1841–1919
The Impressionist painter of joy and sensuality whose shimmering depictions of leisure, beauty, and the pleasures of modern life made him one of the most beloved artists in history.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch · 1872–1944
The Dutch pioneer of geometric abstraction whose grid paintings of primary colours and black lines became icons of modern art and design.
René Magritte
Belgian · 1898–1967
The master of philosophical Surrealism, whose deadpan, meticulously painted visual paradoxes challenged the relationship between images, words, and reality.
Salvador Dali
Spanish · 1904–1989
The flamboyant Surrealist master whose hallucinatory dreamscapes, paranoiac-critical method, and relentless self-promotion made him one of the twentieth century's most recognizable and controversial artists.
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch · 1853–1890
A tortured genius whose vibrant, emotionally charged paintings transformed art, though he sold only one painting in his lifetime.
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian · 1866–1944
The pioneer of pure abstract art who believed painting could evoke emotion as directly as music, transforming the course of twentieth-century art through both his canvases and his theoretical writings.
Contemporary Art
1945 - Present
Alexander McQueen
British · 1969–2010
Alexander McQueen was the most theatrically visionary designer of his generation, transforming the fashion show into a total work of art while pushing the boundaries of tailoring, construction, and dark romanticism. His collections explored trauma, identity, and the savage beauty of nature with unmatched intensity.
Andy Warhol
American · 1928–1987
The pope of Pop Art who blurred the boundaries between art, commerce, and celebrity culture.
Francis Bacon
British · 1909–1992
The Irish-born British painter whose screaming popes, twisted bodies, and raw depictions of human anguish made him the most disturbing figurative painter of the twentieth century.
Gianni Versace
Italian · 1946–1997
Gianni Versace was the high priest of glamour — a designer who celebrated excess, sexuality, and classical grandeur with an operatic intensity that made his runway shows the defining spectacle of 1990s fashion. His safety pin dress worn by Elizabeth Hurley and his oroton chain mail created the template for red-carpet maximalism.
Giorgio Armani
Italian · 1934–present
Giorgio Armani dismantled the stiff architecture of the traditional tailored jacket and rebuilt it in fluid wool and linen, creating the defining professional uniform of the 1980s and 1990s. His unstructured, unlined suits in muted earth tones established a new language of masculine and feminine power dressing built on relaxed precision.
Jackson Pollock
American · 1912–1956
The tormented pioneer of drip painting whose radical technique of pouring and flinging paint onto unstretched canvas redefined the act of painting and established New York as the center of the art world.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American · 1960–1988
The self-taught prodigy who exploded from New York graffiti culture into the art world, creating raw, densely layered paintings that confronted race, power, and mortality.
Jelena Karović Vučenović
Serbian · 1991–present
A Serbian fashion designer whose haute couture label H.C.11 and sustainable brand HeartCore together forge a creative vision where masterful construction meets wearable rebellion.
Louise Bourgeois
French-American · 1911–2010
The French-American sculptor whose monumental spiders, cell installations, and psychologically charged works explored memory, sexuality, and family trauma across seven decades.
Lucian Freud
British · 1922–2011
The uncompromising British portraitist whose thickly painted nudes and psychologically intense portraits made the human body a site of raw, physical truth.
Mark Rothko
American · 1903–1970
The Abstract Expressionist whose luminous, hovering fields of colour sought to express the most basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, and doom.
Vivienne Westwood
British · 1941–2022
Vivienne Westwood invented punk fashion and went on to become Britain's most subversive couturier, fusing historical tailoring with political provocation. Her career spans five decades of deliberate disruption, challenging fashion's relationship to power, sexuality, and environmental responsibility.
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American · 1904–1997
The Dutch-born master of Abstract Expressionism whose ferocious paintings of women and abstract landscapes redefined gestural painting.
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese · 1929–present
The visionary Japanese artist whose obsessive polka dots, infinity rooms, and immersive installations have made her one of the world's most popular living artists.
Yves Saint Laurent
French-Algerian · 1936–2008
Yves Saint Laurent democratized haute couture and transformed fashion into a vehicle for social liberation. His Le Smoking tuxedo suit for women and Mondrian shift dress are among the most culturally significant garments of the 20th century, embodying fashion's power to challenge gender and class boundaries.