Artists

Bosch

1450-1516 Flemish painter The Garden of Earthly Delights and the Mocking of Christ

Botticelli

1444-1510 Florentine painter. Fortitude. Refined figures and brillant coloring

Michelangelo Bounarroti

1475-1564. Sculptor, painter, architect. Davie & Pieta. Sistine Chapel.

Peter Bruegel

1525-1569 "The Elder" Flemish. The Fall of Rebel Angels.

Alexander Calder

1898-1976 American sculptor - mobiles & motorized pieces

Mary Cassatt

1844-1926 American Figure paintings and etchings. Mother and Child.

Paul Cezanne

1839-1906 French Impressionist

Marc Chagall

1887-1985 Russian. Presaged the Surrealist movement. Stained-glass and Illustrated books.

Salvador Dail

1904-1989 Surrealist, Spanish. The Persistence of Memory

Edgar Degas

1834-1917 French Ballet and sculptures of horses.

Donatello

1386-1466 Italian sculptor

Albrecht Durer

1471-1528 German artist whose woodcuts and engracinvs are mong the greatest. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Melencholia I

Fra Angelico

1400-1455 Florentine monk and painter who supervised or created many of the frescoes in the St. Mark's convent in Florence

Max Ernst

1891-1976 German painter of the Dada movement who helped shape Surrealist. Collages and paintings. Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale.

Thomas Gainsborough

1727-1788 English portraits and landscapes and influenced many future 19th landscape artists

Paul Gauguin

1848-1903 French post-Impressionist greatly influenced modern art. Tahiti and Marquesas subjects. Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going?

Frank Gehry

1929- Canadian architect Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain

Francisco Goya

1746-1828 Spanish. Portraits and graphic arts pieces.

El Greco

1541-1614 Greek Painter who settled in Spain and specialize in expressive portraits of nobility and magnificent cathedral altars

Christo Javacheff

1935- Bulgarian artist whose large-scale earth peices (wraps & plastics) are among the biggest art installations ever produced.

Thomas Jefferson

Designed and built Monticello and UVA campus

Jasper Johns

1930- American painter who helped introduce Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. Beer cans and American Flag

Vasily Kandinsky

1866-1944 Russian Expressionist painter who helped found Bauhaus school. Associated with Klee

Paul Klee

Swiss avant-garde Expressionist. Bauhaus. Associated with Kandinsky

Gustav Klimt

1862-1918 German Art Nouveau painter. The Kiss

Leonardo Da Vinci

1452-1519 Madonna of the Rocks. Mona Lisa.

Edouard Manet

1832-1883 French painter who had important influence on the later Impressionist movement. His paintings invoked outrage among critics and viewers.

Franz Marc

1880-1916 German Expressionist painter Yellow Cow, Blue Horses

Henri Matisse

1869-1954 French Fauve artist painted still-life subjects.

Joan Miro

1893-1983 Surrealist Spanish painters. Fantastic landscapes

Claude Monet

1840-1926 Founder of the Impressionist School. Water Lily

Anna Mary Moses

1860-1961 American simple landscapes and New England life

Edvard Munch

1863-1944 Norwegian Expressionist, The Scream

Georgia O'Keeffe

1887-1986 American. Southwestern motif. Cow's Skull

I. M. Pei

1917- Chinese-American architect. Entrance to Louvre, skyscrapers, Rock-N-Roll HOF

Pablo Picasso

1881-1973 Cubist. Spanish. The Three Musicians. Gernica.

Camille Pissarro

1830-1903 French Impressionist. Landscapes

Jackson Pollock

1912-1956 Absract Expressionist

Rembrandt

1606-1669 Dutch master. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, The Shooting Company of Capt. Frans Banning Cocq

Pierre Renoir

1841-1919 Franch painter and found of the Impressionist movement. Moulin de la Gallette and Bather.

Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640 Flemish painter of Baroque. Venus and Adonis, The Judgement of Paris

Auguste Rodin

1840-1917 The Thinker The Kiss French sculptor

Mark Rothko

Russian American Abstract Expressionist. Student of Max Weber

George Seurat

1859-1891 forerunner of the Impressionist movement. Pointillist.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

American Stained glass

Vincent van Gogh

1853-1890 Dutch post-Impressionistic

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect. Falling Water. Guggenheim in new York