Artists timeline
A visual display of the lives of artists with more than one painting on this site.
Duccio di Buoninsegna
ca. 1255 - 1319
Italian painter. Duccio was born in Siena, where he lives... biography
Simone Martini
ca. 1284 - 1344
Painter from Siena, major representative of the Gothic school. He... biography
Bertram of Minden
ca. 1340 - 1414/15
Bertram of Minden, also known as Master Bertram, or in... biography
Robert Campin
ca. 1380 - 1444
Painter in the Southern Netherlands (Hainaut), one of the first... biography
Rogier van der Weyden
1399/1400 - 1464
South-Netherlandish painter, chronologically halfway up the list of mediaeval West-European... biography
Master of the Munich Golden Legend
ca. 1400 - 1460
Medieval illuminator, active in France probably between c. 1420 and... biography
Giovanni Bellini
ca. 1430 - 1516
Venetian painter, son of Jacopo Bellini (approx 1400–1471) brother of... biography
Hans Memling
ca. 1433 - 1494
German-Flemish artist, born in Seligenstadt (Hessen), died in Bruges. He... biography
Andrea del Verrocchio
1435 - 1488
Florentine sculptor and painter, born as Andrea di Cione. Little... biography
Cosimo Rosselli
1439 - 1507
Florentine renaissance painter. From 1459 on he worked for himself.... biography
Derick Baegert
ca. 1440 - 1515
Derick (or: Derik) Baegert. German (Lower Rhenish) mediaeval painter from... biography
Botticelli
ca. 1445 - 1510
Sandro Botticelli was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi in Florence... biography
Martin Schongauer
ca. 1447 - 1491
German painter and printmaker, born in the city of Colmar... biography
Jheronimus Bosch
ca. 1450 - 1516
Jherominus Bosch, a.k.a. Hieronymus Bosch, Jeroen Bosch or Jerome Bosch.... biography
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
Florentine artist, scientist, inventor, architect, astronomer and poet, with an... biography
Filippino Lippi
ca. 1457 - 1504
Florentine Renaissance painter, son of the painter fra (sic!) Filippo... biography
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
ca. 1460/65 - ca. 1488/93
Dutch artist, perhaps the most important early Netherlandish painter. Little... biography
Juan de Flandes
ca. 1465 - 1519
(Jan van Vlaanderen, Juan Flamenco). Originally from the Low Lands,... biography
Jacob van Oostsanen
1470 - 1533
Painter and woodcutter from the Northern Netherlands. Jacob Cornelisz. van... biography
Albrecht Dürer
1471 - 1528
German engraver and painter whose fame and influence reach far... biography
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1472 - 1553
German painter and printmaker, one of the major representatives of... biography
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475 - 1564
Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. Generally considered one... biography
Matthias Grünewald
ca. 1480 - 1528
German painter, real name: Mathis Gothard, born in Würzburg, accidentally... biography
Raphael
1483 - 1520
Born Raffaello di Giovanni Santi, a.k.a. Raffaello Sanzio. Italian painter,... biography
Titian
1487/90 - 1576
Real name: Tiziano Vecellio. Venetian painter, draughtsman and designer of... biography
Lucas van Leyden
1494 - 1533
Netherlandish engraver and painter, born and died in Leiden. Lucas... biography
Jan van Scorel
1495 - 1562
Dutch painter who introduced the Italian Renaissance in the Netherlands.... biography
Hans Holbein the Younger
1497/8 - 1543
All-round German Renaissance artist. Painter, draughtsman and book illustrator. Designer... biography
Michiel Coxcie
1499 - 1592
Painter and engraver from the Southern Netherlands. His name is... biography
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
1500 - 1559
Painter from the northern Netherlands. Vermeyen was born around 1500... biography
Pieter Aertsen
1507/08 - 1575
Dutch painter. Lived and died in Amsterdam. Worked in Antwerp... biography
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
ca. 1520 - 1569
South-Netherlandish painter and father of Jan Bruegel. His contemporaries dub... biography
Paolo Veronese
1528 - 1588
Italian painter, one of the masters of the late Renaissance. Paolo... biography
Lucas van Valckenborch
1535 - 1597
Painter from the Southern Netherlands. His exact date and place... biography
El Greco
1541 - 1614
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Spanish painter of Greek descent, born in Crete.... biography
Abraham Bloemaert
1566 - 1651
Netherlandish painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Gorinchem. At the... biography
Jan Brueghel the Elder
1568 - 1625
South-Netherlandish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, nicknamed Fluwelen... biography
Caravaggio
1573 - 1610
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter with great influence both... biography
Orazio Borgianni
ca. 1575 - 1616
Italian painter and etcher, born in Rome. He received his... biography
Peter Paul Rubens
1577 - 1640
A.k.a. Pieter Pauwel Rubens, South Netherlandish painter and draughtsman, famous... biography
Pieter Lastman
ca. 1583 - 1633
Full name: Pieter Pieterszoon Lastman. North-Netherlandish painter, born and died... biography
Gerard van Honthorst
1590 - 1656
Gerard (or Gerrit) van Honthorst was a Netherlandish painter, born... biography
Nicolas Poussin
1593/94 - 1665
French painter, mostly worked in Rome, major representative of classicism.... biography
Artemisia Gentileschi
1593 - 1656
Italian painter. Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593.... biography
Bartholomeus Breenbergh
1598 - 1657
Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher, best-known for his landscapes. Breenbergh was... biography
Diego Rodríguez da Silva y Velázquez
1599 - 1660
Spanish painter, born in Seville. He was a member of... biography
Anthony Van Dyck
1599 - 1641
Southern-Netherlandish painter, a major Baroque artist. Van Dyck was the... biography
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1606 - 1669
North-Netherlandish painter, draftsman and etcher. Most sources claim he was... biography
Jan Lievens
1607 - 1674
North-Netherlandish painter and etcher. Lievens is a pupil of Pieter... biography
Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp
1612 - 1652
North-Netherlandish painter from Dordrecht. Paints mostly landscapes, genre paintings (tableaus... biography
Govert Flinck
1615 - 1660
North-Netherlandish painter, born in Kleve. He was a student of... biography
Eustache Le Sueur
1616 - 1655
French painter. Significantly influenced by Poussin, Raphael and Vouet. Known... biography
Ferdinand Bol
1616 - 1680
North-Netherlandish painter and pupil of Rembrandt's around 1635. Stylewise Bol... biography
Jan Havicksz. Steen
ca. 1626 - 1679
Painter from the Northern Netherlands. Steen was born in Leiden,... biography
Jan de Bray
1627 - 1697
Painter and draughtsman from the northern Netherlands. He was born... biography
Ludolf Backhuysen
1630 - 1708
Dutch painter and calligrapher, born in Emden (Germany). He... biography
Johannes Vermeer
1632 - 1675
Also known as Johannes Vermeer from Delft, this North-Netherlandish painter... biography
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696 - 1770
Giambattista Tiepolo. Italian painter, born in Venice in 1696. Dies... biography
William Blake
1757 - 1827
English writer, poet, painter and printmaker. William Blake was born... biography
Gustave Doré
1832 - 1883
French illustrator and etcher, born in Strasbourg, dies in Paris.... biography
James Tissot
1836 - 1902
French painter and graphic artist, born in Nantes as Joseph-Jacques... biography
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