These famous painters were discussed and analyzed most often in prominent art history survey books. From Renassance painters... to Impressionist paintings... to the advent of Pop Art, these are famous painters discussed often in the history of painting:
Albers, Josef | Altdorfer, Albrecht | Angelico, Fra | Bacon, Francis | Baldung Grien, Hans | Balthus | Beckmann, Max | Bellini, Giovanni | Bierstadt, Albert | Boccioni, Umberto | Bonheur, Rosa | Bonnard, Pierre | Bosch, Hieronymus | Botticelli, Sandro | Boucher, François | Braque, Georges | Bronzino, Agnolo | Brueghel the Elder, Pieter |Campin, Robert (Master of Flemalle) | Canaletto | Caravaggio | Carracci | Cassatt, Mary | Castagno | Cézanne | Chagall | Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon | Chirico, Giorgio de | Church, Frederic Edwin | Close, Chuck | Clouet, François | Cole, Thomas | Constable, John | Copley, John Singleton | Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille | Correggio | Cortona, Pietro da | Courbet | Cranach the Elder, Lucas | Cuyp, Aelbert | Dalí, Salvador | Daumier, Honoré-Victorin | David, Gérard | David, Jacques Louis | Davis, Stuart | de Kooning, Willem | Degas | Delacroix, Eugène | Derain, André | Dubuffet, Jean | Duchamp, Marcel | Dufy, Raoul | Dürer, Albrecht | Eakins, Thomas | El Greco | Elsheimer, Adam | Ensor, James | Ernst, Max | Fabriano, Gentile da | Fabritius, Carel | Fragonard Jean-Honoré | della Francesca | Friedrich, Caspar David | Fuseli, John Henry | Gainsborough, Thomas | Gauguin | Gaulli, Giovanni Battista | Gentileschi, Artemisia | Géricault |Ghirlandaio | Giorgione | Gorky, Arshile | Goya | Gozzoli, Benozzo | Greuze, Jean-Baptiste | Gris, Juan | Gros, Antoine-Jean | Grosz, George | Grüenewald, Matthias | Guardi, Francesco | Hals, Frans | Hartley, Marsden | Hicks, Edward | Hockney, David | Hodler, Ferdinand | Hofmann, Hans | Hogarth, William | Holbein the Younger, Hans | Homer, Winslow | Hooch, Pieter de | Hopper, Edward |Hunt, William Holman | Indiana, Robert | Ingres | Johns, Jasper | Jordaens, Jacob | Kahlo, Frida | Kalf, Willem | Kandinsky | Kauffmann, Angelica | Kelly, Ellsworth | Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig | Klee, Paul | Klimt, Gustav | Kokoschka, Oskar | La Tour, Georges de |Lam, Wifredo | Léger, Fernand | Leibl, Wilhelm | Leonardo | Leyster, Judith | Lichtenstein, Roy | Limbourg Brothers | Lippi, Fra Filippo | Lorrain, Claude | Lotto, Lorenzo | Louis, Morris | Mabuse | Malevich, Kasimir | Manet | Mantegna | Marc, Franz | Masaccio | Matisse | Matta | Memling, Hans | Michelangelo | Millais | Millet, Jean-François | Miró | Modersohn-Becker | Modigliani | Monet | Moreau, Gustave | Morisot, Berthe | Motherwell, Robert | Munch | Murillo, Bartolomé Estebán | Newman, Barnett | Noland, Kenneth | Nolde, Emil |O'Keeffe, Georgia | Panini, Giovanni Paolo |Parmigianino | Perugino | Picasso | Pippin, Horace | Pissarro | Pollock | Pontormo, Jacopo da | Poussin Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul | Puvis De Chavannes, Pierre Cécile | Quarton, Enguerrand | Raphael | Rauschenberg, Robert | Reinhardt, Ad | Rembrandt | Reni, Guido | Renoir | Reynolds, Sir Joshua | Ribera, Jusepe de | Rigaud, Hyacinthe | Rivera, Diego | Romano, Giulio | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | Rothko Rouault, Georges | Rousseau, Henri | Rousseau, Théodore | Rubens | Ruysch, Rachel | Ruysdael, Jacob van | Sánchez-Cotán, Juan | Sargent, John Singer | Schiele, Egon | Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl | Schongauer, Martin | School of Fontainebleau | Seurat | Signorelli | Soutine, Chaim | de Stael, Nicolas | Steen, Jan | Stella, Frank | Stuart, Gilbert | Tanguy, Yves | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | Teniers The Younger, David | ter Borch, Gerard | Tiepolo | Titian | Toulouse-Lautrec | Turner, Joseph Mallord William | Uccello, Paolo | van der Weyden, Rogier | van Dyck | van Eyck | van Gogh | van Goyen | Vasarély, Victor | Velázquez | Vermeer | Veronese | Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth | Vuillard, Édouard | Watteau, Jean-Antoine | Wesselmann, Tom | West, Benjamin | Whistler | Witte, Emmanuel de | Witz, Konrad | Wood, Grant | Wright of Derby, Joseph | Zurbarán, Francisco de