Art Challenge – Test Your Knowledge of Famous Painters

Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious works.

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Her brushstrokes were often loose and feathery, depicting the play of light and shadow, where dappled sunlight filtered through trees or shimmered on water surfaces.

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings, specifically, the subject of dance. He once famously said “I have perhaps too often considered woman as an animal,” referring to his ballerina subjects as “my little monkeys.”

Géricault (1792-1824) was a French painter known for radical subjects, fusion of classical forms, and attraction to the sublime and the horrific, making him important in the Romantic movement.

Georges Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born artist noted for his paintings of nocturnal London and for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits.

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.

Botticelli (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli’s posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work.

William Turner (1775-1851) was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolorist. He is known for his expressive coloring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period. She was commissioned to paint a portrait of President Kennedy and noted that he never sat still.

Géricault (1792-1824) was a French painter known for radical subjects, fusion of classical forms, and attraction to the sublime and the horrific, making him important in the Romantic movement.

Gustave Courbet (1918-1987) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.