Famous painters: biographies, movements and great masters

Meet the artists who transformed painting, from the Renaissance to modern art, through their lives, major works, workshops and movements.

Discover the artists See all 100 artists Gustav Klimt and the great modern painters

Grandmasters Claude Monet and the impressionist painters

Movements

Artemisia Gentileschi and famous women painters

Biographies

BiographiesLives, workshops and courses.Artistic movementsStyles, dates and breakups.Workshops and museumsCreation locations and collections.Major worksMasterpieces and legacies.

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Essential guides

The 100 famous painters to knowA panorama of the great masters, from the Renaissance to modern art. Impressionist paintersMonet, Renoir, Degas and the schools that transformed light. Famous women paintersArtemisia Gentileschi and artists long excluded from great stories. The masters of the RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and the workshops that changed art.

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RenoirBiography, places, family, cinema and heritage of the painter. Claude MonetMuseums, works, impressionism and the journey of the master of light. RenaissanceGreat Italian masters, workshops, inventions and commissions. ImpressionismOutdoors, light, modernity and the birth of a new painting. Modern artCubism, abstraction, fauvism and avant-gardes. Women artistsMajor figures, journeys and rediscoveries.

Rembrandt, La Pièce aux cent florins, premier état vers 1648, British Museum

12 August 2026

Rembrandt's drawings and engravings at the British Museum

Explore Rembrandt's drawings and prints at the British Museum: masterpieces, techniques, attributions, states and access to the study room.

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