Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

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Annette Meech

Anne Vallayer-Coster

Anne Vallayer-Coster

French

1744 - 1818

Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell is a painting by Anne Vallayer-Coster, from 1780. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

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Anne W. Brigman

American

1869 - 1950

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Anne White

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Anne Wilson

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Ann Hamilton

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Anni Albers

Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci

Entombment of Christ is a c.1595 oil on copper painting by the Italian painter Annibale Carracci, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art According to Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Annibale Carracci's main 17th-century biographers, the painting was produced for Astorre Sampieri, an important clergyman in Bologna. Malvasia adds the details that it was a painting on copper and that Sampieri commissioned it to give to a major but unnamed figure in Rome but thought so highly of it that he kept the original for itself and instead gave the figure a (now lost) copy made by Carracci's then pupil Guido Reni. It is usually dated to around 1595, the year in which Annibale, his cousin Ludovico and his brother Agostino completed the Palazzo Sampieri frescoes for Sampieri, complemented by Annibale's own Christ and the Samaritan Woman. Several copies of the work survive, particularly by Sisto Badalocchio, leading scholars to theorise that there must be a lost original of the composition by Carracci himself. The work reappeared on the art market and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 1998 as another Badalocchio copy, only later being reattributed to Carracci himself.

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Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci

Italian

1560 - 1609

Annibale Carracci ( kə-RAH-chee, UK also kə-RATCH-ee, Italian: [anˈniːbale karˈrattʃi]; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother Agostino and cousin Ludovico (with whom he also worked collectively), Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades.

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Annibale Fontana

Italian

1540 - 1587

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Annie Cardin