Hello, Artenauta! Today, continuing with our path of learning and growth within the art world, we bring you closer to the life and work of some of the best painters in history.
7 of the best painters in history
We have taken into account his artistic trajectory, the value of his works and the repercussion and influence on other contemporary and later artists. Let’s get to it!
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is probably the most famous painter in the world. This artist, who belongs to the Rhe Italian Renaissancehas influenced and continues to influence the work of many other great painters. Among his most famous works we find La Gioconda and The Last Supper.
But he not only developed his talent in the field of painting, but his inspiration and activity encompassed many disciplines, including drawing, botany, writing, music… making him probably the most versatile artist of all time.
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Michelangelo BuonarrotiItalian painter better known in English as Michelangelo, was not only widely admired by his contemporaries, who nicknamed him the Divine, but has influenced the work of countless artists of later periods.
He excelled in painting, sculpture and architecture. Among his most famous paintings, we can highlight the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
inspired Baroque painting with his work. With his masterful use, among other novelties for the time, of chiaroscuro, he influenced the work of other painters such as Velázquez, Rembrandt and Rubens. Among his most famous works are Bacchus or David with the head of Goliath.
Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez is one of the greatest Spanish painters of all time. His work, characterized by an extraordinary mastery of light, has been admired and a source of inspiration for many artists, from his time to the present day. It has a large number of famous paintings, among which we could highlight, because of its worldwide fame,
Las Meninas
.
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
is considered one of the great masters of the Baroque with great knowledge and mastery of classical iconography, which he used to apply, through his personal interpretation, to his works. Among his most famous paintings are The Night Watch or The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was one of the great representatives of post-impressionism. World renowned for a painting characterized by his use of light and color. Among the large number of
works made by Van Gogh
s works, we have some as famous as The Starry Night, The Bedroom in Arles or The Sunflowers.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
one of the most famous painters of the 20th century, was the creator, along with Georges Branque, of Cubism. Picasso’s work is characterized by continuous inspiration and reinvention, giving rise to very marked and distinct periods within his artistic career. Among the large number of works created by Picasso, we find some as famous as Guernica or Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
As we mentioned at the beginning of this post, these are just some of the most important painters that the history of art has given us. As always, we invite you to continue researching and discovering the life and work of these and other great painters such as Salvador Dalí, Matisse, Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Kandinsky, Francisco de Goya, Frida Kahlo or Claude Monet.
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