ARTIST PORTRAITS

 These portraits of famous artists were studied by the artist as part of his training journey.

Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519
Nationality: Italian
Style: Renaissance


Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
(Donatello)
1386-1466
Nationality: Italian
Style: Renaissance


Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475-1564
Nationality: Italian
Style: Renaissance


Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(Raphael)
1483-1520
Nationality: Italian
Style: Renaissance


Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1571-1610
Nationality: Italian
Style: Baroque


Claude Monet
1840-1926
Nationality: French
Style: Impressionism


Vincent van Gogh
1853-1890
Nationality: Dutch
Style: Impressionism


Salvador Dalí
1904-1989
Nationality: Spanish
Style: Surrealism


Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
Nationality: German
Style: Renaissance


Francisco de Goya
1746-1828
Nationality: Spanish
Style: Romanticism


Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1598-1680
Nationality: Italian
Style: Baroque


Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Nationality: Belgian/Flemish
Style: Baroque


Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Nationality: Dutch
Style: Baroque


Tiziano Vecelli
(Titian)
1488/90-1576
Nationality: Italian
Style: Renaissance


Édouard Manet
1832-1883
Nationality: French
Style: Impressionism

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