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Top 8 World Famous Painters

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Italy --d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time.

St. John in the Wilderness Bacchus
Oil on walnut panel transferred to canvas
177 cm × 115 cm (70 in × 45 in)

Mona Lisa
16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel
77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in)

Virgin of the Rocks
Oil on panel
189.5 cm × 120 cm (74.6 in × 47.25 in)

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art. Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880.

Langlois Bridge at Arles
It was painted in 1888 and is currently at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany

The Old Mill

Starry Night Over the Rhone
Oil on canvas
72.5 cm × 92 cm (28.5 in × 36.2 in)

Pablo Picasso
Claude Monet

Salvador Dali
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Henri Matisse
Andy Warhol