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Born c.1485 • Solothurn • Switzerland
Died 1527 • Basel • Switzerland
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Amman, Jost: The Miner
Jost Amman
Swiss-born painter and printmaker
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Erfurth, Hugo: Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
German artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
“Parents of the Artist,” oil on canvas by Otto Dix, 1921; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Otto Dix
German artist
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Maso Finiguerra
Italian artist
Housebook, Master of the: Virgin of the Apocalypse
Master of the Housebook
German painter and engraver
Campagnola, Domenico: The Assumption of the Virgin
Domenico Campagnola
Italian artist
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Master E.S.
German engraver
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter