Painters

What lands on a date

• 01-19 Paul Cézanne · French Post-Impressionist who shaped modern painting. source
• 01-23 Édouard Manet · French painter who bridged Realism and Impressionism. source
• 01-28 Jackson Pollock · American Abstract Expressionist and pioneer of action painting. source
• 02-23 Kazimir Malevich · Russian avant-garde painter and founder of Suprematism. source
• 02-25 Pierre-Auguste Renoir · French Impressionist painter of figures and leisure. source
• 03-06 Michelangelo · Italian sculptor, painter, and architect of the High Renaissance. source
• 03-07 Piet Mondrian · Dutch painter of geometric abstraction and De Stijl. source
• 03-22 Yayoi Kusama · Japanese artist known for polka dots and infinity rooms. source
• 03-30 Francisco Goya · Spanish Romantic painter and court artist. source
• 03-30 Vincent van Gogh · Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of vivid, expressive works. source
• 04-06 Raphael · Italian High Renaissance painter and architect from Urbino. source
• 04-15 Leonardo da Vinci · Italian polymath of the High Renaissance; born in Vinci. source
• 04-20 Joan Miró · Spanish painter, sculptor, and Surrealist. source
• 04-23 J. M. W. Turner · English Romantic painter of light and atmosphere. source
• 04-24 Willem de Kooning · Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist painter. source
• 05-11 Salvador Dalí · Spanish Surrealist painter of dreamlike imagery. source
• 05-13 Georges Braque · French painter and co-founder of Cubism. source
• 05-21 Albrecht Dürer · German Renaissance painter, printmaker, and theorist. source
• 05-21 Henri Rousseau · French Naïve painter of jungle fantasies. source
• 06-07 Paul Gauguin · French Post-Impressionist and Symbolist painter. source
• 06-11 John Constable · English landscape painter of the Romantic era. source
• 06-12 Egon Schiele · Austrian Expressionist painter and draftsman. source
• 06-28 Peter Paul Rubens · Flemish Baroque painter and diplomat. source
• 07-06 Frida Kahlo · Mexican painter known for intense self-portraits. source
• 07-07 Marc Chagall · Russian-French modernist painter of poetic dreamscapes. source
• 07-08 Artemisia Gentileschi · Italian Baroque painter of powerful biblical scenes. source
• 07-09 David Hockney · British painter and a leading figure of Pop art. source
• 07-10 Giorgio de Chirico · Italian painter and founder of metaphysical art. source
• 07-10 Camille Pissarro · French Impressionist and mentor to the movement. source
• 07-11 James McNeill Whistler · American-born painter active in Britain. source
• 07-12 Amedeo Modigliani · Italian painter and sculptor of elongated portraits. source
• 07-14 Gustav Klimt · Austrian Symbolist painter of the Vienna Secession. source
• 07-15 Rembrandt · Dutch Golden Age painter and master etcher. source
• 07-19 Edgar Degas · French Impressionist known for dancers and modern life. source
• 08-06 Andy Warhol · American Pop artist and chronicler of celebrity culture. source
• 09-25 Mark Rothko · American painter of luminous colour-field canvases. source
• 09-29 Caravaggio · Italian Baroque painter known for dramatic chiaroscuro. source
• 10-25 Pablo Picasso · Spanish co-founder of Cubism and modern art icon. source
• 10-27 Roy Lichtenstein · American Pop artist known for comic-book imagery. source
• 10-28 Francis Bacon · British painter of raw, unsettling figurative works. source

+ 11 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.

• Sandro Botticelli 1445
• Titian 1488
• Johannes Vermeer 1632
• Diego Velázquez 1599
• El Greco 1541
• Hieronymus Bosch 1450
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1525
• Jan van Eyck 1390
• Thomas Gainsborough 1727