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Mariotto Albertinelli (1474 -1515) Italian, FlorentineHigh Renaissance  
Alessandro Allori (1535 - 1607) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist
Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455)  Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Sofonisba Anguissola(1532 - 1625) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist
Alesso Baldovinetti (1427-1499) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Jacopo Bassano (1510-1592) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Taddeo di Bartolo (1362-1422) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Lazzaro Bastiani (1430-1512) Italian, VenetianRenaissance
Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)  Italian, Rococo
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1477-1548) Italian, Sienese, High Renaissance
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi 1486-1551) Italian, Sienese, Renaissance
Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516) Italian, Venetian, Renaissance
Bernardo Bellotto (1720 - 1780) Italian, Rococo
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Italian, Futurist
Alessandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510) Italian, Florentine, Renaissance
Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1319) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Agnolo Bronzino (1503 - 1571) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist
Domenico Brusasorci (1516-1587) Italian, Veronese, Mannerist
Giulio Campi (1500-1572)  Italian, Venetian, Renaissance
Luca Cambiaso (1527 – 1585)  Italian, Renaissance
Canaletto (1697 - 1768) Italian, Rococo
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) Italian, Neoclassical
Caravaggio (1573 - 1610) Italian, Baroque
Cimabue (1240-1302) Italian, Byzantine Style
Antonio da Correggio (1489- 1534)   ItalianRenaissance
Jacopo di Cione (1365-1398) Italian, Early Renaissance
Piero di Cosimo 1462-1521) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535) Italian, Ferrara School, High Renaissance
Guidoccio Cozzarelli (1450-1516) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Bernardo Daddi (1290-1348) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Piero della Francesca (1422-1492) Italian, Renaissance
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) French, Academic Classicists 
Jules Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) French, Cubist, Der Blaue Reiter
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Andre Derain (1880-1954) French, Fauvist
Ercole de’Roberti (1450-1496) Italian, Ferrara School, Renaissance
Domenico Di Michelino, (1417 - 1491) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (1403-1483) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Sano di Pietro (1406-1481) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Dosso Dossi (1490 - 1542) Italian, Ferrara School, High Renaissance
Giovanni Rosso Fiorentino (1495 - 1540) Italian, Mannerist
Francesco Francia (1450-1517) ItalianMilanese School, High Renaissance
Piero della Francesca, (1422-1492)  Italian, Renaissance
Garofalo (1481-1559) Italian, Ferrara School, Renaissance,
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio 1483 - 1561) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance
Giorgione (1477-1510) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance
Giotto (1267 - 1337) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Pontormo (1494-1557) Italian, Mannerist
Giovanni di Paolo (1399-1482) Italian, Sienese, Renaissance
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Italian, Mannerist
Pietro Perugino (1445-1524) Italian, Umbrian SchoolEarly Renaissance
Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1537) Italian, High Renaissance
Sano di Pietro (1406-1481) ItalianRenaissance
Jacopo da Pontormo (1494 - 1557) Italian, Mannerist
Marcantonio Raimondi (1475-1534) Italian, High Renaissance
Raphael, (1483-1520) Italian, High Renaissance
Giulio Rosati (1858-1917) Italian, Academic Classicists
Ventura Salimbeni (1567-1613) Italian, Mannerist
Paul Sandby (1730-1809) English, Rococo
Sassetta (1394-1450) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Sodoma (1477-1548) Italian, Sienese, High Renaissance
Tintoretto (1518 - 1594) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance
Titian (1477 - 1576) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance
Francesco Traini (1321 - 1365) Italian, Byzantine, Illuminator
Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist 
Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660) Spanish, Baroque
Paolo Veneziano (1333-1360) Italian, Venetian, Early Renaissance  
Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance  
Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) Italian, Mannerist

French

Frédéric Bazille (1841 - 1870) French, Impressionist
Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947) French, Nabi
François Boucher (1703 - 1770) French, Rococo
William Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) French, Academic
Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) French, Cubist
Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894) French, Impressionist
Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) French, Post-Impressionist
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779) French, Rococo
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) French, Realist
Leon Francois Comerre (1850-1934) French, Academic
Pierre-Auguste Cot (1837 - 1883)  French, Academic
Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877) French, Realist
Thomas Couture (1815-1879) French, Academic Classicists
Henri Cross (1856-1910) French, Pointillist
Honoré Daumier (1808 - 1879) French, Social Realist
Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1824) French, Neoclassical
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) French, Impressionist
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) French, Romanticism
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) French, Academic Classicists 
Jules Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) French, Cubist, Der Blaue Reiter
Andre Derain (1880-1954) French, Fauvist
Charles Emile Duran (1837-1917) French, Academic Classicists 
Jean Fouquet (1420 - 1481)  French, Early Renaissance
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) French, Rococo
Eugene Fromentin (1820-1876) French, Academic Classicists 
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)  French, Post-Impressionist
Jean Leon Gerome 1824-1904)  French, Academic
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) French, Neoclassical
Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921) French, Academic Classicists
Henri Eugene Augustin Le Sidaner (1862-1932) French, Impressionist
Maximilien Luce (1858-1926) French, Pointillist
Édouard Manet (1832 - 1833) French, Impressionist
Henri Manguin (1874-1959) French, Fauvist
Luc Olivier Merson (1846-1920) French, Academic 
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) French, Impressionist
Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898) French, Symbolist
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) French, Impressionist
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766) French, Rococo
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) French, Impressionist
Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665) French, Baroque
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) French, Symbolist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) French, Impressionist
Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958) French, Expressionist
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) French
Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) French, Pointillist
Paul Signac (1863 - 1935) French, Pointillist
Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899) French, Impressionist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1897) French, Art Nouveau/Post-Impressionist
Élizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun (1755 - 1842) French, Neoclassical
Maurice Vlaminck (1876-1958) French Fauvist
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) French Post-Impressionist/Nabi
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) French, Rococo
Fritz Zuber-Buhler (1822-1996) French, Academic Classicists

Dutch

Hieronymus Bosch (1453 - 1516) Dutch, Northern Renaissance
Dieric Bouts the Elder (1413-1475) Dutch, Northern Renaissance
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525 - 1569) Flemish, Northern Renaissance
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 - 1638) Flemish, Northern Renaissance
Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) Dutch, Baroque
Matthias Grünewald (1434-1494) Flemish, Northern Renaissance
Frans Hals (1580 - 1666) Dutch, Baroque
Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) Dutch, Baroque
Limbourg Brothers (1370s-1416) Dutch, Illuminators
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Dutch, Abstract
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Dutch, Baroque
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) Dutch, Neoclassical
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) Dutch, Northern Renaissance
Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633 – 1707) ) Dutch
Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641)  Flemish, Baroque
Jan van Eyck (1385 - 1441) Flemish, Northern Renaissance
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)  Dutch, Post-Impressionist
Jan Vermeer (1632 - 1675)  Dutch, Baroque

Germany
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553) German, Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)  German, Northern Renaissance
George Grosz (1893-1959) German, Expressionist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) German, Expressionist
August Macke (1887 - 1914) German, Abstract Expressionist
Hans Memling (1434-1494) German, Flemish
Franz Marc (1880 - 1916) German, Fauvist
Emil Nolde (1867 - 1956) German, Expressionist
Rosa da Tivoli (1655-1706)
German, Baroque
Franz Xavier Winterhalter (1805-1873) German, Academic Classicists 

American

George Bellows (1882 - 1925) American, Realist
Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) American, Hudson River School
George Caleb Bingham 1811-1879) American, Realist
Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-19) American, Tonalist
George Loring Brown (1814-1889) American, Hudson River School
Mary Cassatt (1845 - 1926)  American, Impressionist
Thomas Chambers (1808-1866) American, Hudson River School
Frederic Church (1826 - 1900) American, Hudson River School
Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) American, Hudson River School
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) American,
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900) American, Hudson River School 
Asher B. Durand (1796-1886) American, Hudson River School
Thomas Eakins (1844 - 1916) American, Realist
Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) American, Cubist
Robert Swain Gifford 1840-1905) American, Tonalist
Lowell Birge Harrison (1854-1929) American, Tonalist
Martin Johnson Heade 1819-1904) American, Hudson River School  
Hermann Herzog (1831-1932)  American, Hudson River School   
Edward Hicks (1780-1849)  American
Thomas Hill (1829-1908)  American, Hudson River School
George Inness (1825 - 1894) American, Hudson River School
John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872) American, Hudson River School
John La Farge (1860-1945) American, Tonalist
Arthur Frank Mathews (1860-1945)  American, Tonalist
Thomas Moran (1837-1926) American, Hudson River School
John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) American, Tonalist
James Peale (1749-1831) American, Realist
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) American, Neoclassical
Charles Russell (1864-1926) American
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917) American, Tonalist
John Trumbull (1756-1843) American, Neoclassical
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) American, Tonalist
Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) American, Tonalist
Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) American, Neoclassical
James Whistler (1834 - 1903) American, Tonalist
Grant Wood (1891 - 1942) American

England

William Blake (1757 - 1827) English, Visionary
John Collier (1850-1934) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
John Constable (1776-1837) English, Romantic
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) English, Rococo
John William Godward (1861 - 1922) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) English, Rococo
Edward Robert Hughes (1849-1914) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Frederick Leighton (1830 - 1896) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
John Everett Millais (1829-1896) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) English, Rococo
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) English
Paul Sandby (1730-1809) English, Rococo
Joseph Mallord Turner (1775-1851) English,
George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) English, Symbolist
John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Clarke Wontner (1857-1930) English, Academic Classicists

Spain

Pedro Berruguete (1450 - 1504) Spanish Early Renaissance
Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828) Spanish, Rococo
Bartolome Esteban Murillo 1617-1682 Spanish, Baroque
Juan Fernandez Navarrete (1526-1579) Spanish, Mannerist
Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660) Spanish, Baroque

Greece

El Greco (1541 - 1614) Greek, Mannerist
Theophanes (1330-1410) Greek, Byzantine Illuminator, Icon Painter

Russia

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) Russian, Academic
Dionysius (1440-1510) Russian, Byzantine Style

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