The Art Department of the Thacher School

Art History

• Art History Themes Index
• General Outline Of Art History Sources
• ANU Art History Server
• Art History Time Line
• The Getty Art History Information Program
• Introduction to Renaissance Art
• La Renaissance at the Louvre

Famous Artists

[Gothic Painting] [The Italian Renaissance] [The Northern Renaissance]
[Baroque] [Revolution and Restoration] [Impressionism] [20th Century]

• Gothic Painting (1280-1515)

  • Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 - 1337)
  • Eyck, Jan van (b. before 1395, Maaseik, Bishopric of Liège, Holy Roman Empire [now in Belgium]--d. before July 9, 1441, Bruges)
  • Grünewald, Matthias (c.1475-1528)
  • Hieronymus, or Jerome, Bosch (b. c.1450, d. August 1516)
  • Memling, Hans (1430?-94)
  • Weyden, Rogier van der (1399/1400 - 1464)

• The Italian Renaissance (1420-1600)

  • Bellini, Giovanni (1430?-1516)
  • Botticelli, Sandro (b. 1445, Florence [Italy]--d. May 17, 1510, Florence)
  • Da Vinci, Leonardo (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.)
  • Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (b. March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]--d. Feb. 18, 1564, Rome)
  • Raffaello Sanzio (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy]--d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States [Italy])
  • Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c. 1485-1576)

• The Northern Renaissance (1500-1615)

  • Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (about 1525-69)
  • Dürer, Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]--d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg)
  • Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)

• Baroque (1600-1790)

  • Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon (1699-1779)
  • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806)
  • Hals, Frans (1582/3 - 1666)
  • Lorrain, Claude (b. 1600, Chamagne, Fr.--d. Nov. 23, 1682, Rome)
  • Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban(1617-82)
  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn
  • Rubens, Peter Paul (b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640)
  • Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego(1599-1660)
  • Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft (b. October 1632, d. December 1675)
  • Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)

• Revolution and Restoration (1740-1860)

  • Classicism
    • David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825)
    • Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (1780-1867)
    • Blake William (b. Nov. 28, 1757, London--d. Aug. 12, 1827, London)

  • Romanticism
    • Delacroix, Eugène (b. April 26, 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Fr.--d. Aug. 13, 1863, Paris)
    • Friedrich, Caspar David (b. Sept. 5, 1774, d. May 7, 1840)
    • Géricault, (Jean-Louis-André-) Théodore (b. Sept. 26, 1791, Rouen, Fr.--d. Jan. 26, 1824, Paris)

  • Realism
    • Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875)
    • Courbet, Gustave (1819-77)
    • Daumier, Honoré (1808-79)
    • Millet, Jean-François (1814-75)
  • Constable, John (1776-1837)
  • Copley, John Singleton (b. July 3, 1738, Boston [Mass., U.S.]--d. Sept. 9, 1815, London, Eng.)
  • Goya (y Lucientes), Francisco (José) de (b. March 30, 1746, Fuendetodos, Spain--d. April 16, 1828, Bordeaux, Fr.)
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (b. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, May 12, 1828, d. Apr. 9, 1882)
  • Turner, John Mallord William (1775-1851)
  • West, Benjamin (b. Oct. 10, 1738, near Springfield, Pa., U.S.--d. March 11, 1820, London, Eng.)

• Impressionism (1860-1900)

  • Gustave Caillebotte (b. Aug. 19, 1848, d. Feb. 21, 1894)
  • Cassatt, Mary (b. May 22, 1844, Allegheny City, Pa., U.S.--d. June 14, 1926, Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, Fr.)
  • Cézanne, Paul (b. Jan. 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.--d. Oct. 22, 1906, Aix-en-Provence)
  • Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar (b. July 19, 1834, Paris, Fr.--d. Sept. 27, 1917, Paris)
  • Guillaumin, (Jean-Baptiste-) Armand (b. Feb. 16, 1841, Paris, Fr.--d. June 26, 1927, Paris)
  • Manet, Edouard (b. Jan. 23, 1832, Paris, France--d. April 30, 1883, Paris)
  • Monet, Claude (b. Nov. 14, 1840, Paris, Fr.--d. Dec. 5, 1926, Giverny)
  • Morisot, Berthe ( b. Jan. 14, 1841, d. Mar. 2, 1895)
  • Pissarro, Camille (b. July 10, 1830, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies--d. Nov. 13, 1903, Paris)
  • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (b. Feb. 25, 1841, Limoges, France--d. Dec. 3, 1919, Cagnes)
  • Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)
  • Sisley, Alfred (b. Oct. 30, 1839, Paris, Fr.--d. Jan. 29, 1899, Moret-sur-Loing)
  • Tissot, James (1836-1902)
  • Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903)
  • Gauguin, (Eugène-Henri-) Paul (b. June 7, 1848, Paris, Fr.--d. May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia)
  • Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van (b. March 30, 1853, Zundert, Neth.--d. July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris)
  • Seurat, Georges (b. Dec. 2, 1859, Paris--d. March 29, 1891, Paris)
  • Signac, Paul (b. Nov. 11, 1863, d. Aug. 15, 1935)

• 20th Century

  • Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916)
  • Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
  • Hockney, David (1937- )
  • Gris, Juan (1927-68)
  • Malevich, Kasimir (1878-1935)
  • Marc, Franz (b. Feb 8, 1880, Munich, Germany--d. March 4, 1916, Verdun, Fr.)
  • Matisse, Henri (-Émile-Benoît) (b. Dec. 31, 1869, Le Cateau, Picardy, Fr.--d. Nov. 3, 1954, Nice)
  • Modigliani, Amedeo ( b. July 12, 1884, d. Jan. 24, 1920)
  • Mondrian, Piet
  • Munch, Edvard (b. Dec. 12, 1863, Löten, Nor.--d. Jan. 23, 1944, Ekely, near Oslo)
  • Kandinsky, Wassily (b. Dec. 4 [Dec. 16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia--d. Dec. 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.)
  • Klee, Paul (b. Dec. 18, 1879, d. June 29, 1940)
  • M.C. Escher

Museums and Galleries

• The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums
• The Alexandria Museum of Art
• The Andy Warhol Museum
• Ashland Cyber Art Gallery
• The Birchwood Gallery of Independent Artists
• UCR/California Museum of Photography
• Carnegie Museum of Art
• Cezanne's Exhibition
• The Columbia Museum of Art
• The Digital Photography Exhibit
• Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit
• The Exploratorium
• The Finnish National Gallery
• Leonardo da Vinci Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• National Museum of African Arts
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Official Salvador Dali Museum Web Site
• The Snite Museum of Art
• The Surrealism Server
• World Wide Arts Resources
• Yokohama Museum of Art

Music

• Classical Music This should meet all Classical Music needs.
• The Mammoth Music Meta-List
• Introduction to Renaissance Music
• The Ultimate Band List
• MTV Online
• History of Rock 'n' Roll
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• J.S. Bach Home Page
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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