Artists
Masters of light, shadow, and story
Discover the painters shaping the Renaissance and Baroque worlds, each with their own obsessions, patrons, and hidden narratives.

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Baroque Painter

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543)
Renaissance Painter

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Renaissance Painter

Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553)
Renaissance Painter

Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)
Baroque Painter

Guido Reni
Baroque Painter

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Renaissance Painter

Titian (Italian, c. 1488–1576)
Renaissance Painter

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
Baroque Painter

Pieter van der Heyden
Renaissance Painter

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Baroque Painter

Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591–1652)
Baroque Painter

Rembrandt
Baroque Painter

Lucas Cranach the Elder, After (German, 1472–1553)
Renaissance Painter

Abraham Blooteling (Dutch, 1640–1690)
Baroque Painter

Anonymous, 17th century
Baroque Painter

Anthony van Dyck
Baroque Painter

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593–1678)
Baroque Painter

Guido Reni (Italian, 1575–1642)
Renaissance Painter

Nicolas Poussin
Baroque Painter

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
Baroque Painter

Annibale Carracci
Renaissance Painter

Bartolommeo Coriolano (Italian)
Baroque Painter

Frans Hals
Baroque Painter

Johannes Vermeer
Baroque Painter

Joos van Cleve
Renaissance Painter

Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588)
Renaissance Painter

Paulus Pontius (Flemish, 1603–1658)
Baroque Painter

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
Renaissance Painter

Caravaggio
Renaissance Painter

Correggio (Italian, 1489?-1534)
Renaissance Painter

Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Baroque Painter

Gian Battista Bolognini
Baroque Painter

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Renaissance Painter

Johannes van Doetecum I
Renaissance Painter

Lucas Cranach (German, 1515–1586)
Renaissance Painter

Niccolo Boldrini (Italian, c. 1500–after 1566)
Renaissance Painter

Titian
Renaissance Painter

Andrea Solario
Renaissance Painter

Bernard van Orley
Renaissance Painter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
Renaissance Painter

Christoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1596–1652/53)
Baroque Painter

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
Baroque Painter

El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614)
Renaissance Painter

Frans Hals (Dutch, c. 1581–1666)
Baroque Painter

Georges de La Tour
Baroque Painter

Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617–1681)
Baroque Painter

Govert Flinck
Baroque Painter

Israhel van Meckenem (German, c. 1440–1503)
Renaissance Painter

Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594)
Renaissance Painter

Jan Brueghel the Elder
Renaissance Painter

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)
Baroque Painter

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Renaissance Painter

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
Renaissance Painter

Lucas Emil Vorsterman (Flemish, 1595–1675)
Baroque Painter

Ludovico Carracci
Renaissance Painter

Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
Baroque Painter

Peter Paul Rubens
Baroque Painter

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Renaissance Painter

Quinten Massys
Renaissance Painter

Schelte Adams Bolswert (Flemish, 1586–1659)
Baroque Painter

Swiss Painter
Renaissance Painter

Thomas Forster
Baroque Painter

Master of the Canesso Peddler
Baroque Painter

Albrecht Dürer
Renaissance Painter

Andrea Sacchi
Baroque Painter

Andrea di Lione
Baroque Painter

Anonymous
Renaissance Painter

Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Baroque Painter

Bartolomeo Manfredi
Baroque Painter

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)
Renaissance Painter

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610)
Baroque Painter

Carlo Dolci
Baroque Painter

Carlo Saraceni
Baroque Painter

Caspar Netscher
Baroque Painter

Cecco del Caravaggio (Francesco Buoneri)
Baroque Painter

Charles Le Brun
Baroque Painter

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Baroque Painter

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
Renaissance Painter

Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
Baroque Painter

Eustache Le Sueur
Baroque Painter

Filippo Tarchiani
Baroque Painter

Flaminio Torre (Torri)
Baroque Painter

Flanders
Baroque Painter

Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)
Renaissance Painter

Francis Sandford
Baroque Painter

Francois de Poilly
Baroque Painter

Frans Huys
Renaissance Painter

Frans Post
Baroque Painter

French Painter
Renaissance Painter

Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652)
Baroque Painter

Gerard David
Renaissance Painter

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Baroque Painter

Gilles Rousselet
Baroque Painter

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo
Baroque Painter

Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo
Renaissance Painter

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Renaissance Painter

Girolamo Romanino
Renaissance Painter

Girolamo da Carpi (Girolamo Sellari)
Renaissance Painter

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Baroque Painter

Giuseppe Recco
Baroque Painter

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Baroque Painter

Guido Cagnacci
Baroque Painter

Hans Brosamer
Renaissance Painter

Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92)
Renaissance Painter

Hans Holbein (German, c. 1465–1524)
Renaissance Painter

Hans Maler
Renaissance Painter

Hendrick Hondius I
Baroque Painter

Hendrick ter Brugghen
Baroque Painter

Hieronymus Hopfer (German)
Renaissance Painter

Italian (Lombard) Painter
Renaissance Painter

Jacob Jordaens
Baroque Painter

Jacob Ochtervelt
Baroque Painter

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)
Renaissance Painter

Jacques de Gheyn II
Baroque Painter

Jan Georg van Vliet (Dutch, c. 1610–1635)
Baroque Painter

Jan Gossart (called Mabuse)
Renaissance Painter

Jan Massys
Renaissance Painter

Jan Steen (Dutch, 1626–1679)
Baroque Painter

Jean Clouet
Renaissance Painter

Joachim Patinir
Renaissance Painter

Johann Liss
Baroque Painter

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
Baroque Painter

Laurent de La Hyre
Baroque Painter

Lorenzo Lotto
Renaissance Painter

Ludovico Mazzolino
Renaissance Painter

Marcellus Coffermans
Renaissance Painter

Massimo Stanzione
Baroque Painter

Michele Desubleo
Baroque Painter

Michiel Sweerts
Baroque Painter

Mirabello Cavalori
Renaissance Painter

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters
Renaissance Painter

Netherlandish (Antwerp) Painter
Renaissance Painter

North Netherlandish Painter
Renaissance Painter

Orazio Borgianni
Baroque Painter

Orsola Maddalena Caccia
Baroque Painter

Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano)
Baroque Painter

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)
Renaissance Painter

Paris Bordon
Renaissance Painter

Paulus Bor
Baroque Painter

Pedro Orrente
Baroque Painter

Prince Ruprecht (German, 1619–1682)
Baroque Painter

Pierre Brébiette (French, c. 1598-c. 1650)
Baroque Painter

Pierre Louis van Schuppen (Flemish, 1627–1702)
Baroque Painter

Pieter I de Jode (Flemish, 1570–1634)
Baroque Painter

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1684)
Baroque Painter

Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, c. 1530–c. 1575)
Renaissance Painter

Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano)
Renaissance Painter

Simon Novellanus
Baroque Painter

Simon Vouet
Baroque Painter

Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi
Renaissance Painter

Theodor van Kessel
Baroque Painter

Adriaen Isenbrant
Renaissance Painter

Artemisia Gentileschi
Baroque Painter

Cornelis Engebrechtsz
Renaissance Painter

Anna Maria Carew (British)
Baroque Painter

Valentin de Boulogne
Baroque Painter

Wen Zhengming
Renaissance Painter

Wenceslaus Hollar
Baroque Painter

Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607–1677)
Baroque Painter

Adam Roumeau
Baroque Painter