Figurative Art History

An overview of some of the most innovative and influential painters and sculptors from figurative art history to the mid-twentieth century. Capturing the human form from ancient Greece through the Renaissance into Romanticism, modernism, laying the paving stones to contemporary artwork of today.

Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome 175 A.D.
Giotto 1311
Masaccio 1426
Jan Van Eyck 1433
Rogier Van Der Weyden 1435
Botticelli 1482
Leonardo da Vinci 1485
Michelangelo
Michelangelo 1512
Titian 1512
Bronzino 1544
El Greco 1595
Caravaggio 1601
Artemisia Gentileschi 1613
Rubens 1618
Frans Hals 1637
Diego Velasquez
Velasquez 1656
Vermeer 1658
Rembrandt van Rijn 1661
Thomas Gainsborough 1748
Kiyonaga 1780
Jacques Louis David 1793
Kitagawa Utamaro 1800
Ingres 1808
Goya 1814
Ford Madox Brown 1855
Edgar Degas 1858
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1863
Edouard Manet 1866
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1874
Auguste Rodin 1889
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1890
Paul Gauguin 1891
Edvard Munch 1893
John Singer Sargent 1893
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec 1894
Paula Modersohn-Becker 1906
Robert Henri 1908
Modigliani 1905
Franz Von Stuck 1905
Gustav Klimt 1907
Kees van Dongen 1908
Henri Matisse 1908
Emile Antoine Bourdelle
Emile Antoine Bourdelle 1910
Leon Bakst 1912
Stanley Spencer 1914
Egon Schiele 1915
George Wesley Bellows
George Wesley Bellows 1920
Tamara de Lempicka 1925
Otto Dix 1926
Diego Rivera 1931
Frida Kahlo 1940
Pablo Picasso 1941
Max Beckmann 1943
Balthus 1955
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon 1909-1992

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. Edvard Munch

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