Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640 - Antwerp, Belgium)
Baroque painter and draftsman. His most famous painting is undoubtedly his self-portrait.
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| Self-portrait Peter Paul Rubens |
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641 - Antwerp, Belgium)
Anthony was Baroque painter and pupil of Peter Paul Rubens. He was known for his precise and detailed execution in his painted portraits of people.
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| Self-portrait painting of Anthony van Dyck |
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510, Florence, Italy)
His most famous painting is The Birth of Venus.
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| The Birth of Venus (Sandro Botticelli) |
Jan Van Eyck (1400-1430 - Gent, Belgium)
His most famous painting is The Lamb of God that he and his brother Hubert finished in 1432.
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| The Lamb of God (Jan Van Eyck) |
Rembrandt van Rijn (1639-1642 - The Nederlands)
His most famous painting was The Night Watch. All his paintings have beautifully luminosities. It's like he studied the light by painting them.
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| The Night Watch (Rembrandt van Rijn) |
Edvard Munch (1863-1944 - Oslo, Norway)
The Scream is one of his most famous works. He painted his own mental suffering and emotional torment that he felt in his life during certain periods.
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| The Scream (Edvard Munch) |
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564 - Italy)
His most famous painting is The Creation of Adam found on one of the frescoes on the vault of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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| The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo Buonarroti) |
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 - Florence, Italy)
Leonardo was an architect, inventor, engineer, philosopher, physicist, chemist, anatomist, sculptor, writer, painter and composer. Probably the greatest master ever in it's kind, a walking encyclopedia. His two best known paintings are The Last Supper, a fresco painted for the Duke Ludovico Sforza and the Mona Lisa, of course, the most mysterious woman ever on canvas.
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| The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) |
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| The Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) |
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 - The Nederlands)
Vincent is a post-impressionist painter. The Starry Night is his most famous painting.
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| The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh) |
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973 - Spain)
The Outside modern and abstract painter artist Pablo was also a sculptor, jewelry designer and ceramist. One of his most famous paintings is the Weeping Woman.
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| Weeping Woman (Pablo Picasso) |
Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944 - The Netherlands)
Piet Mondrian was known for his abstract paintings full of right angles and straight lines and uniform colored surfaces. He painted everything by hand but with such precision that it looks like the lines are drawn with a ruler or made by a computer.
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| Piet Mondriaan |
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We,contemporary artists, soon discovered that the majority of paint by number kits available at that time were quite basic and mass printed on board in very small sizes, which was something we knew we could improve on.
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