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| Description | Artist |
|---|---|
| French, social satirist, over 4,000 lithographs, imprisoned for six months for satirizing Louis Philippe as Gargantua | Honore Daumier |
| French, artist of the French Revolution, leading Neoclassical painter, Court Painter to Napoleon: Oath of the Horatii, Oath of the Tennis Court, The Death of Marat | Jacques Louis David |
| Italian, Virgin of the Rocks, Mona Lisa (aka La Gioconda), The Last Supper | Leonarda Da Vinci |
| French, Impressionist, painted ballerinas and horse races | Edgar Degas |
| American, born in the Netherlands, "action painting," leader of Abstract Expressionism, known for his Woman Series and Clam Diggers | Wilem De Kooning |
| British, portraitist and landscape, The Blue Boy | Thomas Gainsborough |
| French, Post-Impressionist painter, had syphillis, subject of book, The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham, traveled to Tahiti | Paul Gauguin |
| French, founder of Romanticism: The Raft of the Medusa | Theodore Gericault |
| Italian, Sculptor: The Gates of Paradise, beat out Brunelleschi in contest | Lorenzo Ghiberti |
| American, born in Haiti, painted birds | John James Audobon |
| French: Statue of Liberty | Frederic Bartholdi |
| American, associated with the Ash Can School, best known for his boxing scenes: Dempsey and Firpo, Stag at Shakey's | George Bellows |
| American: Mt. Rushmore, Lincoln's Head in the Capitol, Stone Mountain | Gutzon Borglum |
| Flemish,: The Garden of Earthly Delights (aka Lust and Strawberry Painting), Ship of Fools | Hieronymus Bosch |
| Italian, worked on Sistine Chapel wall frescoes, The Birth of Venus, Primavera | Sandro Botticelli |
| Romanian sculptor: Bird in Space, The Kiss sculpture | Constantin Brancusi |
| French, worked closely with Picasso from 1908-1914 to develop Cubism: Woman with a Mandolin | Georges Braque |
| Flemish: Peasant Wedding, Tower of Babel, The Fall of Icarus | Brueghel the Elder |
| Italian, gave up sculpture after he was defeated in a contest by Ghiberti, designed the Dome of the Florence Cathedral | Filippo Brunelleschi |
| American, mobiles | Alexander Calder |
| French, foremost French romantic painter: Liberty Leading the People, The Death of Sardanapolus | Eugene Delacroix |
| Italian, assisted Ghiberti with the bronze doors of the baptistry of San Giovanni, (The Boy) David (bronze sculpture) | Donatello |
| French, Dada artist, developed "ready-mades" - everyday objects exhibited as art: Nude Descending a Staircase, "Mona Lisa" with a Beard | Marcel Duchamp |
| German, painter and engraver, most influential artist of the German school: Knight, Death, and the Devil; Praying Hands | Albrect Durer |
| Italian, most important early Italian painter: Christ Walking on Water, St. Francis Surrounded by His Brothers | Giotto |
| Spanish, Court Painter to Charles III and Charles IV: The Third of May, 1808, The Disasters of War | Francisco Goya |
| German-American, founder of the Bauhaus, Pan Am Building | Walter Gropius |
| Dutch: The Laughing Cavalier | Frans Hals |
| British, painter and engraver of satirical works: The Rake's Progress | William Hogarth |
| German, Court Painter to Henry VIII, painted The Ambassadors, a painting famous for its anamorphic skull | Hans Holbein the Younger |
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