Artists

A painter, inventor, and observer who treated art as a form of inquiry. Leonardo fused scientific curiosity with humanist ideals, making images that feel both precise and alive.

Associated movements: Renaissance

Van Gogh turned landscape into emotion, using color and rhythm to make the visible world feel intensely personal.

Associated movements: Post-Impressionism

Botticelli painted myth and devotion with lyrical line, creating images that feel like poems in paint.

Associated movements: Early Renaissance

Vermeer specialized in quiet moments, using light to make intimacy feel profound.

Associated movements: Dutch Golden Age

Rembrandt painted and etched human experience with empathy, turning light into narrative.

Associated movements: Dutch Golden Age, Baroque

Hokusai reimagined landscape through graphic clarity, turning Mount Fuji into a symbol of time and endurance.

Associated movements: Ukiyo-e

Hiroshige captured weather and travel with a poetic eye, turning everyday scenes into atmospheric visions.

Associated movements: Ukiyo-e

Munch painted inner experience with raw honesty, making emotion the subject of the image.

Associated movements: Expressionism

A sculptor-painter who gave the human body monumental force, Michelangelo made anatomy feel divine.

Associated movements: High Renaissance

Dürer combined Northern precision with Renaissance ideas, producing prints that felt both scientific and poetic.

Associated movements: Northern Renaissance

Morris treated design as a way of living, bringing craft and beauty into everyday spaces.

Associated movements: Arts and Crafts

Monastic scribes created illuminated manuscripts where text and ornament became devotional art.

Associated movements: Insular art

Gutenberg’s workshop transformed how books were made, enabling knowledge to scale through print.

Associated movements: Early printing

An 11th-century workshop that stitched history into a monumental narrative embroidery.

Associated movements: Romanesque

A painter of harmony and clarity who brought classical balance to the High Renaissance.

Associated movements: High Renaissance

A revolutionary realist who used dramatic light to make sacred scenes feel immediate.

Associated movements: Baroque

Court painter who blended realism and illusion, turning portraits into psychological spaces.

Associated movements: Baroque

A painter of contradictions who moved from court splendor to dark, human truth.

Associated movements: Romanticism

The painter of light who captured atmosphere and fleeting moments.

Associated movements: Impressionism

Romantic painter of movement and emotion, known for vibrant color.

Associated movements: Romanticism

A visionary painter of moral allegories and fantastical imagery.

Associated movements: Northern Renaissance

Documentary photographer who gave the Great Depression a human face.

Associated movements: Photography

Photographer and advocate who helped establish photography as fine art.

Associated movements: Photography