Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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Bruce Moore

American

1905 - 1980

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Bruce Nauman

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Bruce Nauman

American

Bruce, Patrick Henry

Bruce, Patrick Henry

American

American, 1881 - 1936

Patrick Henry Bruce (March 25, 1881 – November 12, 1936) was an American cubist painter.

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Bruce Posner

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Bruce Stark Lowney

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Bruce Thorn

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Bruce Weber

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Brucker, Edmund

American

American, 1912 - 1985

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter

Netherlandish

Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( BROY-gəl, US also BROO-gəl; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings. He was a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting and later painting in general in his innovative choices of subject matter, as one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting. He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. After his training and travels to Italy, he returned in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day. At the end of the 1550s, he made painting his main medium, and all his famous paintings come from the following period of little more than a decade before his early death in 1569, when he was probably in his early forties. In the 20th and 21st centuries, Bruegel's works have inspired artists...

Brueghel the Elder, Jan

Brueghel the Elder, Jan

Flemish

Flemish, 1568 - 1625

Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder ( BROY-gəl, US also BROO-gəl; Dutch: [ˈjɑm ˈbrøːɣəl] ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the younger son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the Flemish Baroque painting of the first three decades of the 17th century. Brueghel worked in many genres including history paintings, flower still lifes, allegorical and mythological scenes, landscapes and seascapes, hunting pieces, village scenes, battle scenes and scenes of hellfire and the underworld. He was an important innovator who invented new types of paintings such as flower garland paintings, paradise landscapes, and gallery paintings in the first quarter of the 17th century. However, he generally avoided painting large figures, as in portraits, though he often collaborated with other painters who did these, while he did the landscape backgrounds, and sometimes the clothes. He further created genre paintings that were imitations, pastiches and reworkings of his father's works, in particular his father...

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Brueghel the Younger, Pieter

Flemish

Flemish, c. 1564 - 1637/1638