Art Challenge – Test Your Knowledge of Famous Painters

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air.

Masaccio (1401-1428) was an important Florentine painter of the early Renaissance whose frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence remained influential throughout the Renaissance. In the span of only six years, Masaccio radically transformed Florentine painting. He died at age 26 after being poisoned by a rival painter.

Masaccio (1401-1428) was an important Florentine painter of the early Renaissance whose frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence remained influential throughout the Renaissance. In the span of only six years, Masaccio radically transformed Florentine painting. He died at age 26 after being poisoned by a rival painter.

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960’s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody.

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.

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.

Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.

Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

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.

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.

Born in Pittsburgh, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles.

Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was a Mexican painter whose bold large-scale murals stimulated a revival of fresco painting in Latin America

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.

Titian (?-1576) was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.