1.
Leonardo Da Vinci
One of the most well-known painters in the world and with good reason, his art has influenced nearly every artist since.
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El Greco
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3.
Diego Velázquez
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4.
Salvador Dalí
Are you serious?
30 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
5.
Vincent Van Gogh
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6.
Raphael
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7.
Pablo Picasso
Needs no reasoning.
27 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
8.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Perhaps better known as a sculptor than a painter, his dedication to his work ranks him higher than painters with perhaps slightly more skill.
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9.
Vassily Kandinsky
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10.
Edgas Degas
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11.
Marc Chagall
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12.
Duccio di Buoninsegna
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13.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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14.
Ilya Repin
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15.
Eduard Manet
An influential French painter who was important in the transition from realism to impressionism.
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16.
Johan Vermeer
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17.
Peter Paul Rubens
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18.
Philip Guston
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19.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
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20.
Claude Monet
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21.
Eugene Delacroix
Another French painter with a profound impact on the impressionist movement.
6 points - added 2 years ago by kris -
22.
Willem DeKooning
5 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
23.
Giorgio Morandi
5 points - added 2 years ago by kris -
24.
William Turner
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25.
James Ensor
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26.
Kasimir Malevich
3 points - added 5 months ago by Samuil Svinin -
27.
Mark Rothko
3 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
28.
Giotto di Bondone
A brilliant Italian painter who was one of many artists contributed to the rise of the Italian Renaissance.
3 points - added 2 years ago by kris -
29.
Henri Fantin-Latour
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30.
Nicholas Poussin
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31.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
3 points - added 2 years ago by kris -
32.
Ellsworth Kelly
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33.
Alfred Sisley
2 points - added 2 years ago by kris -
34.
James Whistler
2 points - added 2 years ago by kris -
35.
Fragonard
He was the quintessential Rococo painter. A master of both color and draftsmanship.
-2 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
36.
Jamini Roy
Jamini Roy is an enduringly admired and highly valued artist who created profoundly original and deeply cherished masterpieces of art.
-4 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
37.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Rabindranath Tagore is one of the most original and innovative painters of the 20th century. One of the most unique and beloved painters to have ever lived, Tagore painted over 2000 paintings that are amongst the most cherished works of art ever created. Books of his paintings are available.
-4 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
38.
Raja ravi Varma
Varma is a painter of almost unrivalled greatness in the intellectual depth and emotional beauty of his great masterpieces, which manifests a rare and perhaps unique individualism.
-5 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
39.
Nandalal Bose.
One of the most unconventional masters of painting, Nandalal Bose was a painter who created imaginative and overwhelmingly great masterpieces of art.
-5 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
40.
Gaganendranath Tagore.
Gaganendranath Tagore was a great and highly renowned painter. Perhaps the greatest Asian painter, Gaganendranath excelled at painting and writing literature.
-5 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
41.
Abanindranath Tagore.
One of the greatest painters of the world, Abanindranath Tagore is widely admired for his profoundly beautiful masterpieces.
-5 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
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