German printmaker, painter and theorist and one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. (more to come...)

Beautiful , Layered

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting. Even in his own lifetime Caravaggio was considered enigmatic, f

Baroque, Dark, Mythic

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the world's most celebrated generalists, equally fluent in science and art, and a supreme innovator in both. Leonardo's scholarship and his contributions to painting, science, and engineering have raised him to such heights of glory among the cultural heroes of Western ci

Classical, Clever, Elegant, Experimental, Masculine, Mathematical, Pioneering, Renaissance art, Representational, Sophisticated

Edvard Munch, Norway's most popular artist, was a painter, lithographer, etcher, and wood engraver. He is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of German and Central European expressionism. Munch's convulsed and tortuous art was formed by the misery and conflicts of

Abstract, Agitated, Dark, German expressionism, Intense, Intimate, Primal, Severe, Tragic