Angelico, Fra (Renaissance,
Italian) - Coronations of the Virgin, Deposition, Madonna Annalena
Bosch, Hieronymus (Renaissance, Dutch) - The Garden of Earthly Delights, Crowning With
Thorns, The
Temptation of St. Anthony, Adoration of the Magi
Botticelli, Sandro (Renaissance,
Italian) - The Birth of Venus,
the Child,
La Primavera, Mars and Venus
Donatello (Renaissance, Italian) - David, St. George,
Sculptor
Durer, Albrecht (Renaissance, German) - The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, Praying
Hands, Knight Death and the Devil,
engravings
Giotto (Renaissance, Italian) - Legend of St. Francis,
Christ Walking on Water, Last Judgement,
Crucifix, Madonna
Ghiberti, Lorenzo (Renaissance, Italian) - Temptation, St. Matthew,
Gates of
of Solomon
and Queen
Michaelangelo Buonarroi (Renaissance,
Italian) - David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, The
Creation of
Adam, The Last Judgement,
Moses, Pieta (Italian word for pity)
Masaccio (Renaissance, Italian) - The Holy Trinity with the
Virgin and
Rubens, Peter Paul (Renaissance, Flemish) - Raising of the Cross, Henry
IV Receiving the Portrai of Maria de Medici, Fall of
the Damned, Garden of Love, The Battle of Anghiari
Da Vinci,
Leonardo (Italian) - Mona Lisa, Last
Supper (located in
Raphael
(Italian) - School of Athens, Marriage of the Virgin, Transfiguration, Pope Leo
X with Cardinas Guilo de
Medici and Luigi de Rossi, Madonna and the Holy Family, Helped to rebuild St.
Peter’s Basilica
Brueghel, Peiter (Flemish)
- Harvesters, Hunters in the Snow, Landscapes with the Fall
of Icarus,
Triumph of Death, The
Peasant Wedding
Hans Holbein the Younger (German) - Portraits of Henry VII and His Court, Sir
Thomas More and his Family, The Death of Christ,
Portraits of Erasmus and Thomas Cromwell
Tintoretto(Jacopo Robusti) (Italian) - Crucifixion, The Last Supper, The
Finding, Removal of the Body of St. Mark
Titian (Venetian)—Charles
V, Man with the Glove, Venus of Urbino, Rape of Europa, Pope Paul III, Assumption of the Virgin
Van Der Weyden, Roger (Flemish)
- Descent from the Cross, The Last Judgement
Van Eyck, Jan (Flemish) - Arnolfini
Wedding, Man in Red Turban
Myron—Discus
Thrower
Baroque
Bernini (Baroque, Italian) - The Ecstasy of St. Theresa,
Constantine, Neptune and Triton, Rape of Proserpine, Apollo and Daphne
De Goya, Francisco Jose (Baroque, Spanish) - Execution of the Defenders of
court painter to Charles III and Charles IV
Caravaggio
(Italian) - The Calling of St. Matthew, Conversion of St. Paul, David with the
Head of Goliath, Death of a Virgin, Supper at Emmaus, Christ at Emmaus
Hals, Frans (Dutch) -
The Laughing Cavalier
Van Dyck, Anthony (Flemish) - Charles I in Hunting Dress, Madonna of
Rosary
Van Rijn, Rembrandt (Realism, Dutch) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, The Night Watch (The Shooting Company of Capt. Frans Banning Cocq), Supper at
Emmaus, The Blinding of Samson, The Standard Bearer, Aristotle with Bust of
Homer, Lady with a Carnation
Velasquez, Diego (Spanish) - Triumph of Bacchus(aka the Drunkards), Maids of Honor, The Surrendur
of Breda
court painter for Phillip IV of
Vermeer, Jan
(, Dutch)
Cassatt, Mary (Impressionist, American) - did many Impressionist paintings of women and
Children
Degas, Edgar (Impressionist, French) - Madame Camus,
Spartans Exercising, Place de la
Concorde, The Tub, The Rehearsal, Glass of Absinthe, Dancer Lacing Her Shoe,
Jockeys in the Rain, Dance with a Fan
Delacroix, Eugene (Impressionist, French) - Dante and Virgil in Hell, Women of
Apartment,
Massacre at
Manet, Edouard (Impressionist,
French) - Luncheon on the Grass,
Folies-Bergere,
Execution of the Emperor Maximillian of
Monet, Claude (Impressionist, French) - Waterlilies, Women
in the Garden,
Wild Poppies, Impression:
Pissarro, Camille (Impressionist, French) - Boulevard des Italiens
Renoir, Peirre Auguste
(Impressionist, French) (had a bad case of arthritis) - Les Grande Boulevards,
Luncheon of the Boating Party, Bathers, Little Blue Nude, Young Girl Reading,
The Swing, The Bathers, Dance at Bougival, Le Moulin
De La Galette
Van Gogh, Vincent (Post-Impressionist, Dutch) - The Starry Night, The Night Café, The
Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, The Cornfield, self-portrait
Cezanne, Paul (Post-Impressionist, French) -
Homer, Winslow (American) - Illustrator of Civil War for Harper’s
Weekly,
Gauguin, Paul (Post-Impressionist, French) - Night Café at
moved to
David, Jacques-Louis (Realist, French) - Oath of the Horati,
The Death of Marat,
Coronation of
Napoleon and Josephine, Death of
Socrates
Whistler, James Abbot McMeil (Realism, American) - The Artist's Mother:
Arrangement in Gray and Black (aka Whistler's
Mother), Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Symphony in White No.
1: The White Girl.
Eakins, Thomas (American) - The Gross Clinic
Courbet, Gustave (French)
- The Stone Breakers, Studio of the Painter, Allegory of Realism
Magritte, Rene—(Belgian)—The Key of Dreams, The Human
Condition
Millet, Jean Francois (French) - The Gleaners
O'Keefe, Georgia (American) - White Barn Number 1, Cow’s Skull, Red, White, and
Blue. Married Alfred Steiglitz, a famous photographer.
Rodin, Auguste
(Realism, French) - The Thinker, The Age of Bronze,
The Kiss, The Gates of Hell, Balzac, The Burghers of
West, Benjamin (American) - The Death of General Wolfe, Death on a Pale Horse
Dali,
Salvador (Surrealist, Spanish) -
Persistence of Memory, Second Surrealist Manifesto
Escher, M.C. (German) -
Margritte, Rene (Flemish) - The Key of Dreams, The
Human Condition
Lichtenstein, Roy (Pop Artist, American) - known for
paintings that resemble comic strips
Rockwell, Norman (Pop Art, American) - Saturday Evening Post cover, Four Freedoms, Saying
Grace
Warhol, Andy
(Pop Art, American) -
Johns, Jasper (American) - Three Flags, Flag (a copy of the
Wood, Grant
(American) - American Gothic
Duchamp, Marcel (French) - created
“ready-mades” - common objects presented as art
Nude Descending a Staircase, Fountain (a “ready-made”)
Brancusi, Constantin -
Bird in Space, Mademoiselle Pogany, The First Step
Calder, Alexander (American) - known for mobiles
Chagall,
Marc - Self Portrait with 7 Fingers,
I and the Village, The Rabbi of Vitesbsk,
Birthday
Daumier, Honore (French) - Third Class Carriage
Klee, Paul (member of the Blaue
Reiter Group) - Dance Monster
to my soft song!, Ad Parnassum, Death and
Fire, Twittering Machine, They’re Biting, Fish Magic, Landscape with Yellow
Birds
Cellini, Benvenuto
(Italian) - Perseus with the head of Medusa
Poussin, Nicholas (Mannerist, French) - Rape of the Sabine Women,
Inspiration of the Poet, Shepherds of
El Greco(Domenikos
Theotokopoulos) (famous for distorted elongated
figures) (Spanish) - Burial of the
Count of Orgaz,
Constable, John (British) - The Hay Wain, The
White Horse,
Gericault, Jean
Louis (French) - Raft of the Medusa,
Officer of the Imperial Guard
Turner, J.M.W. (British) - Rain Steam and Speed, The Slave
Ship
Hogarth, William (British) - The Rake’s Progress, Marriage a la Mode,
The Harlot’s Progress
Ingres, Jean-Auguste
Dominique (French) - La Grande
Odalisque, The Turkish Bath
Reynolds, Joshua (British) -
first president of the
Watteau, Jean Antoine (French) - A Pilgrimage to Cythera
Hopper, Edward (American) - Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning
Houdon,
Jean-Antoine (French) - Voltaire,
George Washington (sculptures)
Titian(Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian) - Charles V, Man with the Glove, Venus of Urbino, Rape of Europa, Pope Paul
III
Kandinsky, Wassily - A Teacher at Bauhaus, Improvisations series
Matisse, Heni (French) - The Green Stripe, Le Bateau
Moses, Grandma (Anna Mary Roberson) (American) - Sugaring-Off, began painting in her 70s
Munch, Edvard - The Scream
Pollack, Jackson (Abstract Expressionism, American) – The Blue Unconscious, Lavendar Mist
used drip painting technique to create his "action
paintings"
DeKooning, William (Abstract
Expressionism)—“Women” series.
Braque, Georges—(French)—Co-founder of the Cubist Movement.
Picasso, Pablo (Cubist, Spanish) - Les demoiselles d'Avignon(The Women of Avignon), Guernica, Absinthe Drinker, Saltimbanques,
The Guitarist, The Blue Room, Harlequin, She-Goat. Went through the following periods: Blue, Rose, Classical, Iberian, African,
Cubism, Classical, Cubism and Surrealism, Later Works
Seurat, Georges (French) - A Sunday Afternoon on the
Wyeth, Andrew (American) - Christina's World
Gainsborough, Thomas (British) - The Blue Boy, Perdita,
Market Cart, Lady Innes, Portrait
of King
George III and Queen Charlotte
Gruenwald, Matthias (German) – Crucifixion
Other
Rivera, Diego (Mexican)—Murals depicting Mexican Life.
Velasquez, Diego (Spanish)—Triumph of Bacchus, Maids of Honor, Christ on the Cross, The Surrender of
Nast, Thomas (American)—Political cartoonist who created the symbols of both
the Democratic Party (donkey) and the Republican Party (elephant)
Architects and Sculptors
Bartholdi,
Frederic—(French sculptor)—The
Statue of Liberty
Borglum, Gutzon—(American Sculptor)--
Bullfinch, Charles—(American Architect)—US Capitol building.
Fuller, Buckminster—(American Architect)—Geodesic Domes—An allotrope
of Carbon is named after him (buckyballs or
fullerenes)
Gropius,
Walter—(German-American Architect)—founded
the Bauhaus school of art.
Hoban,
James—(American Architect)—US White House.
L’Enfant,
Pierre—(French-American Architect)—Architect
and designer of
Lin, Maya—(American Architect)—The Wall (Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial)
Olmstead, Frederick—(American Architect)—Designed NYC’s
Pei,
I.M.—(American Architect)—Eastern
wing of the National Galley of Art in Washington, D.C., glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris.
Saarinen, Eero—(Finnish American Architect)—Gateway Arch in
Sullivan,
Louis—(American)—Wainwright Building
in
Wren, Christopher—(English Architect)—
Wright, Frank Lloyd---(American
Architect)—Falling Water,