Lucas Cranach the Younger, October 4, 1515 – January 25, 1586, was a German Renaissance painter born in Wittenberg. He trained in the workshop of his father, Lucas Cranach the Elder, alongside his eld...

Pierre Bonnard, October 3, 1867 – January 23, 1947, was a French painter and printmaker born in Fontenay-aux-Roses and died at Le Cannet. He studied law before attending the Académie Julian in 1887, w...

El Greco, October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614, was a Cretan-born painter, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Candia. He trained in the Byzantine icon-painting tradition before working in Venice and Rome. Kn...

Giulia Lama, October 1, 1681 – October 8, 1747, was an Italian painter, draftsman, poet, and mathematician born and active in Venice. She received her first artistic and mathematical instruction from ...

Jacopo Bassano, born Jacopo dal Ponte around 1510 in Bassano del Grappa, trained first with his painter father, Francesco da Ponte, and then studied in Venice. He was known by the name of his native t...

François Boucher, September 29, 1703–May 30, 1770, was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer associated with the Rococo style. Born in Paris, Boucher trained with his father and brief...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610, was an Italian painter. He worked primarily in Rome before spending his final years in Naples, Malta and Sicily. Caravaggio was k...

Théodore Géricault, September 26, 1791–January 26, 1824, was a French painter and lithographer associated with Romanticism.

Théodore Géricault, September 26, 1791–January 26, 1824, was a French painter and lithographer associated with Romanticism. He studied in Paris with Carle Vernet and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. His early ...

Lucas van Leyden, c 1494 – August 8, 1533, was a Netherlandish painter and printmaker born and active in Leiden. He was the son of the painter Huygh Jacobsz and trained in Leiden. Van Leyden produced ...