Famous Paintings: Analysis and Interpretation
Meaning of Pictures by Great Artists (c.1250-1800)
Contents
• How to Analyze a Painting
• List of Famous Paintings Analyzed
• Further Resources
ARTISTS REPRESENTED
Anonymous Artists (c.800)
Angelico, Fra (1400-55)
Antonello da Messina (1430-79)
Bellini, Giovanni (1430-1516)
Bosch, Hieronymus (1450-1516)
Botticelli (1445-1510)
Broederlam, Melchior (1350-1411)
Bronzino (1503-72)
Bruegel, Pieter (1525-1569)
Campin, Robert (1378-1444)
Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609)
Christus, Petrus (1410-75)
Correggio (1494-1534)
Cortona, Pietro da (1596-1669)
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825)
Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1319)
Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
El Greco (1541-1614)
Eyck, Jan van (1390-1441)
Fouquet, Jean (1420-81)
Fragonard (1732-1806)
Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825)
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1597-1651)
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449-94)
Giorgione (1477-1510)
Giotto (1267-1337)
Goes, Hugo van der (1440-1482)
Grunewald, Matthias (1475-1528)
Hals, Frans (1582-1666)Holbein, Hans (1497-1543)
Leonardo (1452-1519)
Limbourg Brothers (fl.1390-1416)
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (1285-1348)
Mantegna, Andrea (1431-1506)
Martini, Simone (1284-1344)
Masaccio (1401-1428)
Memling, Hans (1433-94)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Parmigianino (1503-40)
Perugino (1450-1523)
Piero Della Francesca (1415-92)
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665)
Pozzo, Andrea (1642-1709)
Pucelle, Jean (1290-1334)
Quarton, Enguerrand (1410-66)
Raphael (1483-1520)
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Rubens (1577-1640)
Rublev, Andrei (1360-1430)
Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Tintoretto (1518-94)
Titian (1488-1576)
Uccello (1397-1475)
Velazquez (1599-1660)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)
Veronese, Paolo (1528-88)
Watteau (1684-1721)
Weyden, van der (1400-1464)
Wright, Joseph (1734-97)
Note: This is an ongoing series of educational articles devoted to the analysis and interpretation of important frescoes, oils and watercolours, with new essays being added on a regular basis. Bookmark this page for more details of beautiful portraits, history paintings, landscapes and genre paintings, by leading masters of the Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical periods. For analysis of pictures produced during the nineteenth or twentieth centuries, please see: Analysis of Modern Paintings (1800-2000).
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