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Best 1 Michelangelo

Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance artist, notable for the Sistine Chapel ceiling painted in Rome from 1508 to 1512.

2 Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, notable as court artist to Philip IV in Madrid and creator of Las Meninas in 1656.

3 Raphael
Raphael

Raphael was an Italian High Renaissance painter, noted for the Vatican fresco The School of Athens, completed around 1511.

4 Titian
Titian

Titian was a Venetian Renaissance painter, notable for rich color and portraits made for Charles V and Philip II in the 1500s.

5 Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Golden Age painter, notable for quiet interiors and Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted around 1665.

6 Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, notable for naturalistic figures in the Arena Chapel frescoes at Padua, completed around 1305.

7 Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter, notable for precise oil technique in works such as the 1434 Arnolfini Portrait.

8 Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was a German Renaissance artist, notable for engravings including Melencolia I and his 1500 self-portrait.

9 Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter, notable for peasant scenes and landscapes such as The Harvesters, painted in 1565.

10 Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter, notable for dynamic large-scale works and diplomatic service in 17th-century Europe.

11 Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch was a Netherlandish painter, notable for fantastical moral scenes like The Garden of Earthly Delights, around 1500.

12 Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian Renaissance painter, notable for mythological works such as The Birth of Venus, painted in Florence around 1485.

13 El Greco
El Greco

El Greco was a Greek-born painter active in Spain, notable for elongated figures in works such as The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, 1586.

14 Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca was an Italian Renaissance painter, notable for mathematical perspective in The Flagellation of Christ, around 1460.

15 Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French Baroque painter active in Rome, notable for classical history scenes such as Et in Arcadia Ego.

16 Fra Angelico

Fra Angelico was an Italian Dominican painter, notable for devotional frescoes at San Marco in Florence, made in the 1440s.

17 Tintoretto
Tintoretto

Tintoretto was a Venetian painter, notable for dramatic movement and large canvases such as Crucifixion for San Rocco in 1565.

18 Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain was a French Baroque landscape painter active in Rome, notable for idealized harbors and glowing light in the 1600s.

19 Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese was a Venetian Renaissance painter, notable for grand color and The Wedding at Cana, painted in 1563 for San Giorgio Maggiore.

20 Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque painter, notable as court portraitist to Charles I of England from 1632 and for elegant portraits.

21 Frans Hals
Frans Hals

Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter, notable for lively portrait brushwork in works such as The Laughing Cavalier of 1624.

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