MECKENEM, Israhel van the Younger
(1440/45-1503) Northern Renaissance German graphic artist
MEI, Bernardino
(1612-1676) Baroque Italian painter (Rome)
MEISSONIER, Jean-Louis-Ernest
(1815-1891) Romanticism French painter
MEISSONNIER, Juste-Aurèle
(1698-1750) Rococo French goldsmith (Paris)
MEIT, Conrad
(1480-1550) Northern Renaissance German sculptor
MEKEREN, Jan van
(1658-1733) Baroque Dutch cabinet-maker
MELBYE, Anton
(1818-1875) Romanticism Danish painter
MELDOLLA, Andrea (see SCHIAVONE, Andrea)
(1510-1563) Mannerism Italian painter (Venice)
MELÉNDEZ, Luis
(1716-1780) Rococo Spanish painter
MELIORE DI JACOPO
(active 1260-80) Medieval Italian painter (Florence)
MELLAN, Claude
(1598-1688) Baroque French graphic artist (Paris)
MELLER, Vadim
1884-1962) Ukrainian-Russian Soviet painter, avant-garde artist (Cubist, Constructivist), theatrical designer, book illustrator and architect. The first artist who was awarded a gold medal in Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (Art Deco ) in Paris 1925.
MELLIN, Charles
(1600-1649) Baroque French painter (Rome)
MELONE, Altobello
(1485-1543) High Renaissance Italian painter (Cremona)
MELOZZO DA FORLI
(1438-1494) Early Renaissance Italian painter
MELZI, Francesco
(1493-1570) High Renaissance Italian painter
MEMLING, Hans
(1440-1494) Northern Renaissance Flemish painter (Bruges)
MEMMI, Lippo
(1285-1361) Medieval Italian painter (Siena)
MENA, Pedro de
(1628-1688) Baroque Spanish sculptor
MÉNAGEOT, François-Guillaume
(1744-1816) Rococo French painter
MENGS, Anton Raphael
(1728-1779) Baroque German painter
MENZEL, Adolph von
(1815-1905) Realism German painter (Berlin)
MERCIER, Philipe
(1689-1760) Rococo French painter (London)
MERCK, Johann Christof
(active 1695-1726) Baroque German painter (Berlin)
MERIAN, Matthäus the Elder
(1593-1650) Baroque Swiss graphic artist
MERIAN, Matthäus the Younger
(1621-1687) Baroque Swiss painter
MERIDA, Carlos
(1891-1984) Guatemalan painter and mural artist.
MERYON, Charles
(1821-1868) Realism French graphic artist (Paris)
MERZ, Mario
(1925-2003) Italian artist.
MESSERSCHMIDT, Franz Xaver
(1736-1783) Rococo Austrian sculptor
METSU, Gabriel
(1629-1667) Baroque Dutch painter (Leiden)
MEULEN, Adam Frans van der
(1632-1690) Baroque Flemish painter
MEULENER, Pieter
(1602-1654) Baroque Flemish painter
MEYTENS, Martin van
(1695-1770) Baroque Austrian painter
MICHALLON, Achille-Etna
(1796-1822) Neoclassicism French painter (Paris)
MICHEL, Claude (see CLODION)
(1738-1814) Rococo French sculptor
MICHEL, Georges
(1763-1843) Romanticism French painter
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(1475-1564) High Renaissance Italian sculptor
MICHELANGELO DI CAMPIDOGLIO (see PACE DEL CAMPIDOGLIO, Michele)
(1610-1670) Baroque Italian painter (Rome)
MICHELE DA FIRENZE
(active 1404-1443) Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (Florence)
MICHELE DA PARMA (see ROCCA, Michele)
(1666-1751) Rococo Italian painter
MICHELE DA VERONA
(1470-1536) High Renaissance Italian painter (Verona)
MICHELE DI MATTEO
(active 1410-1469) Early Renaissance Italian painter
MICHELE DI NICCOLAIO (see MICHELE DA FIRENZE)
(active 1404-1443) Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (Florence)
Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (see TOSINI, Michele)
(1503-1577) Mannerism Italian painter (Florence)
MICHELE PANNONIO
(active 1415-64) Early Renaissance Hungarian painter (Ferrara)
MICHELI, Parrasio
(before 1516-1578) Mannerism Italian painter (Venice)
MICHELINO DA BESOZZO
(?-1450) Early Renaissance Italian illuminator (Lombardy)
MICHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMEO
(1396-1472) Early Renaissance Italian architect (Florence)
MICHIELI, Andrea (see VICENTINO, Andrea)
(1542-1617) Mannerism Italian painter (Venice)
MIEL, Jan
(1599-1663) Baroque Flemish illuminator (Rome)
MIELICH, Hans
(1516-1573) Northern Renaissance German painter (Munich)
MIEREVELD, Michiel Jansz. van
(1567-1641) Baroque Dutch painter (Delft)
MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
(1635-1681) Baroque Dutch painter (Leiden)
MIERIS, Frans van, the Younger
(1689-1763) Baroque Dutch painter (Leiden)
MIERIS, Willem van
(1662-1747) Baroque Dutch painter (Leiden)
MIGLIARA, Giovanni
(1785-1837) Romanticism Italian painter (Milan)
MIGNARD, Nicolas
(1606-1688) Baroque French painter
MIGNARD, Pierre
(1612-1695) Baroque French painter
MIGNON, Abraham
(1640-1679) Baroque German painter (Frankfurt)
MIGNOT, Pierre-Philippe
(1715-1770) Rococo French sculptor (Paris)
MIJN, George van der
(1726/27-1763) Baroque Dutch painter (Amsterdam)
MIJN, Heroman van der
(1684-1741) Baroque Dutch painter
MIJTENS, Jan
(1614-1670) Baroque Dutch painter (The Hague)
MILAN, Pierre
(active 1545-1557) Mannerism French graphic artist (Paris)
MILANESE, Il (see CITTADINI, Pier Francesco)
(1616-1681) Baroque Italian painter (Bologna)
MILANI, Aureliano
(1675-1749) Baroque Italian painter
MILDORFER, Joseph Ignaz
(1719-1775) Rococo Austrian painter
MILHOMME, François-Dominique-Aimé
(1758-1823) Neoclassicism French sculptor
MILLAIS, Sir John Everett
(1829-1896) Realism English painter (London)
MILLARES, Manolo
(1926-1972) Spanish painter.
MILLET, Francisque
(1642-1679) Baroque French painter (Paris)
MILLET, Jean-François
(1814-1875) Realism French painter (Barbizon)
MINDERHOUT, Hendrik van
(1632-1696) Baroque Flemish painter (Bruges)
MINO DA FIESOLE
(1429-1484) Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (Florence)
MIRABELLO DI SALINCORNO (see CAVALORI, Mirabello)
(1535-1572) Mannerism Italian painter (Florence)
MIRO, Joan Joan Miro i Ferra
(1893- 1983) Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miro expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeoise society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
MIROU, Anthonie
(1570-1661) Baroque Flemish painter (Antwerp)
MITRUK, Stanley Matthew
(1922-2006) American artist who worked in the Modernist style.
MOCHI, Francesco
(1580-1654) Baroque Italian sculptor
MODANINO (see MAZZONI, Guido)
(active 1473-1518) Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (Modena)
MODIGLIANI, Amedeo Amedeo Clemente Modigliani
(1884-1920) Italian-French figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.
MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz
(1590/91-1655) Baroque Dutch painter
MOHOLY-NAGY, László
(1895-1946) Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school.
MOILLON, Louise
(1615/16-after 1674) Baroque French painter (Paris)
MOINE, Antonin-Marie
(1796-1849) Romanticism French sculptor
MOITTE, Jean-Guillaume
(1746-1810) Neoclassicism French sculptor
MOLA, Pier Francesco
(1612-1666) Baroque Italian painter (Rome)
Molenaar, Claes (see MOLENAER, Klaes)
(1630-1676) Baroque Dutch painter (Haarlem)
MOLENAER, Jan Miense
(1610-1668) Baroque Dutch painter (Haarlem)
MOLENAER, Klaes
(1630-1676) Baroque Dutch painter (Haarlem)
MOLENAER, Pieter (see MEULENER, Pieter)
(1602-1654) Baroque Flemish painter
MOLIN, Johann Peter
(1814-1873) Realism Swedish sculptor
MOLINARI, Antonio
(1655-1704) Baroque Italian painter
MOLINARI, Luis
(1929-1994) Ecuadorian artist.
MOLITOR, Bernard
(1755-1810) Rococo French cabinet-maker (Paris)
MOLYN, Pieter de
(1595-1661) Baroque Dutch painter (Haarlem)
MOMPER, Frans de
(1603-1660) Baroque Flemish painter (Antwerp)
MOMPER, Joos de
(1564-1634/35) Baroque Flemish painter (Antwerp)
MONARI, Cristofano (see MUNARI, Cristoforo)
(1667-1720) Baroque Italian painter
MONDRIAN, Piet Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan,
(1872-1944) Dutch painter, an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg.
MONET, Claude
(1840-1926) French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career, and it is fitting that one of his pictures "Impression: Sunrise" (Musee Marmottan, Paris; 1872) gave the group his name. His youth was spent in Le Havre, where he first excelled as a caricaturist but was then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin, from whom he derived his firm predilection for painting out of doors. In 1859 he studied in Paris at the Atelier Suisse and formed a friendship with Pissarro. After two years' military service in Algiers, he returned to Le Havre and met Jongkind, to whom he said he owed `the definitive education of my eye'. He then, in 1862, entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris and there met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, with whom he was to form the nucleus of the Impressionist group. Monet's devotion to painting out of doors is illustrated by the famous story concerning one of his most ambitious early works, Women in the Garden (Musee d'Orsay, Paris; 1866-67). The picture is about 2.5 meters high and to enable him to paint all of it outside he had a trench dug in the garden so that the canvas could be raised or lowered by pulleys to the height he required. Courbet visited him when he was working on it and said Monet would not paint even the leaves in the background unless the lighting conditions were exactly right. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he took refuge in England with Pissarro: he studied the work of Constable and Turner, painted the Thames and London parks, and met the dealer Durand-Ruel, who was to become one of the great champions of the Impressionists. From 1871 to 1878 Monet lived at Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris, and here were painted some of the most joyous and famous works of the Impressionist movement, not only by Monet, but by his visitors Manet, Renoir and Sisley. In 1878 he moved to Vetheuil and in 1883 he settled at Giverny, also on the Seine, but about 40 miles from Paris. After having experienced extreme poverty, Monet began to prosper. By 1890 he was successful enough to buy the house at Giverny he had previously rented and in 1892 he married his mistress, with whom he had begun an affair in 1876, three years before the death of his first wife. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in different lights---Haystacks or Grainstacks (1890-91) and Rouen Cathedral (1891-95) are the best known. He continued to travel widely, visiting London and Venice several times (and also Norway as a guest of Queen Christiana), but increasingly his attention was focused on the celebrated water-garden he created at Giverny, which served as the theme for the series of paintings on Water-lilies that began in 1899 and grew to dominate his work completely (in 1914 he had a special studio built in the grounds of his house so he could work on the huge canvases). In his final years he was troubled by failing eyesight, but he painted until the end. He was enormously prolific and many major galleries have examples of his work.
MONNOT, Pierre Etienne
(1657-1733) Baroque French sculptor
MONNOYER, Jean-Baptiste
(1636-1699) Baroque French painter
MONSTIER, Daniel du (see DUMONSTIER, Daniel)
(1574-1645) Baroque French painter (Paris)
MONSÙ Desiderio (see BARRA, Didier)
(1590-1644) Baroque French painter
MONSÙ, Desiderio (see NOMÉ, François de)
(1593-1644) Baroque French painter
MONTAGNA, Bartolomeo
(1450-1523) Early Renaissance Italian painter (Vicenza)
MONTAÑES, Juan Martinez
(1568-1649) Baroque Spanish sculptor
MONTAUTI, Antonio
(1685-after 1740) Baroque Italian sculptor
MONTELUPO, Raffaello da
(1504-1566) High Renaissance Italian sculptor (Florence)
MONTFAUCON, Bernard de
(1655-1741) Baroque French graphic artist
MONTFORT, Octavianus
(17th century) Baroque French painter
MONTORSOLI, Giovanni Angelo
(1507-1563) High Renaissance Italian sculptor (Florence)
MOOR, Carel de
(1656-1738) Baroque Dutch painter
MOORE, Henry Henry Spencer Moore
(1898-1986) English sculptor and artist.
MORANDI, Giorgio
(1890- 1964) Italian painter.
MOR VAN DASHORST, Anthonis
(1516/19-1576/77) Mannerism Flemish painter
MORALES, Luis de
(1520-1586) Mannerism Spanish painter
MORANDINI DA POPPI, Francesco (see POPPI, Francesco)
(1544-1597) Mannerism Italian painter (Florence)
MORANDO, Paolo (see CAVAZZOLA)
(1486-1522) High Renaissance Italian painter (Verona)
MORATTI, Francesco
(?-1719) Baroque Italian sculptor (Rome)
MORAZZONE
(1573-1626) Baroque Italian painter (Lombardy)
MOREAU, Gustave
(1826-1898) Realism French painter (Paris)
MOREAU, Jean-Michel
(1741-1814) Rococo French graphic artist (Paris)
MOREAU, Mathurin
(1822-1912) Realism French sculptor (Paris)
MOREELSE, Paulus
(1571-1638) Baroque Dutch painter (Utrecht)
MORETTO da Brescia
(1498-1554) Mannerism Italian painter (Brescia)
MORIN, Jean
(1590-1650) Baroque French graphic artist (Paris)
MORIN, Jean-Louis
(1732-1787) Rococo French painter (Sèvres)
MORLAITER, Giovan Maria
(1699-1781) Rococo Italian sculptor (Venice)
MORLAND, George
(1763-1804) Rococo English painter (London)
MORO, Antonio (see MOR VAN DASHORST, Anthonis)
(1516/19-1576/77) Mannerism Flemish painter
MORONI, Giovanni Battista
(1525-1578) Mannerism Italian painter (Bergamo)
MOSER, Lucas
(1390-1434) Northern Renaissance German painter
MOSNIER, Jean-Laurent
(1743-1808) Neoclassicism French painter (St. Petersburg)
MOSTAERT, Gillis
(1529-1598) Baroque Flemish painter (Antwerp)
MOSTAERT, Jan
(1475-1555/56) Northern Renaissance Dutch painter (Haarlem)
MOTHERWELL, Robert
(1915-1991) American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
MOUCHERON, Frederick de
(1633-1686) Baroque Dutch painter (Amsterdam)
MOYA, Pedro de
MUCHA, Alfons
(1860-1939) Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, most well known for his posters with images of women. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements and designs.
(1610-1674) Baroque Spanish painter
MULIER, Pieter the Elder
(1610-1670) Baroque Dutch painter (Haarlem)
MULIER, Pieter the Younger
(1637-1701) Baroque Dutch painter (Italy)
MULLER, Jan Harmensz
(1571-1628) Baroque Dutch painter (Amsterdam)
MULREADY, William
(1786-1863) Romanticism Irish painter (London)
MULTSCHER, Hans
(1400-1467) Northern Renaissance German painter (Ulm)
MUNARI, Cristoforo
(1667-1720) Baroque Italian painter
MUNCH, Edvard
1863-1944) Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy.
MUNRO, Alexander
(1825-1871) Romanticism Scottish sculptor (London)
MUR, Ramon de
(active 1412-1435) Early Renaissance Catalan painter (Tarragona)
MURA, Francesco de
(1696-1782) Baroque Italian painter (Naples)
MURER, Christoph
(1558-1614) Mannerism Swiss glass painter (Zurich)
MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban
(1617-1682) Baroque Spanish painter (Seville)
MUSI, Agostino dei
(1490-1536) High Renaissance Italian graphic artist
MUSSCHER, Michiel van
(1645-1705) Baroque Dutch painter (Amsterdam)
MUZIANO, Girolamo
(1532-1592) Mannerism Italian painter (Rome)
MYN, George van der (see MIJN, George van der)
(1726/27-1763) Baroque Dutch painter (Amsterdam)
MYN, Herman van der (see MIJN, Heroman van der)
(1684-1741) Baroque Dutch painter