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name date_of_birth date_of_death place_of_birth place_of_death nationality category known_for movement spouses children
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-04-15 1519-05-02 Vinci, Republic of Florence Amboise, Kingdom of France Italian Artist Painting, sculpture, science, engineering Renaissance None None
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-03-06 1564-02-18 Caprese, Republic of Florence Rome, Papal States Italian Artist Painting, sculpture, architecture Renaissance/Mannerism None None
Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-07-15 1669-10-04 Leiden, Dutch Republic Amsterdam, Dutch Republic Dutch Artist Painting Dutch Golden Age Saskia van Uylenburgh, Hendrickje Stoffels 4
Pablo Picasso 1881-10-25 1973-04-08 Málaga, Spain Mougins, France Spanish Artist Painting, sculpture, printmaking Cubism Olga Khokhlova, Jacqueline Roque 4
Vincent van Gogh 1853-03-30 1890-07-29 Zundert, Netherlands Auvers-sur-Oise, France Dutch Artist Painting Post-Impressionism None None
Claude Monet 1840-11-14 1926-12-05 Paris, France Giverny, France French Artist Painting Impressionism Camille Doncieux, Alice Hoschedé 8
Raphael Sanzio 1483-04-06 1520-04-06 Urbino, Duchy of Urbino Rome, Papal States Italian Artist Painting, architecture High Renaissance None None
Salvador Dalí 1904-05-11 1989-01-23 Figueres, Spain Figueres, Spain Spanish Artist Painting Surrealism Gala Dalí None
Frida Kahlo 1907-07-06 1954-07-13 Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico Mexican Artist Painting Surrealism/Folk Art Diego Rivera (twice) None
Diego Velázquez 1599-06-06 1660-08-06 Seville, Spain Madrid, Spain Spanish Artist Painting Baroque Juana Pacheco 2
Johannes Vermeer 1632-10-31 1675-12-15 Delft, Dutch Republic Delft, Dutch Republic Dutch Artist Painting Dutch Golden Age Catharina Bolnes 15
Peter Paul Rubens 1577-06-28 1640-05-30 Siegen, Holy Roman Empire Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands Flemish Artist Painting, diplomacy Baroque Isabella Brant, Hélène Fourment 8
Caravaggio 1571-09-29 1610-07-18 Milan, Duchy of Milan Porto Ercole, Stato dei Presidi Italian Artist Painting Baroque None None
Francisco Goya 1746-03-30 1828-04-16 Fuendetodos, Spain Bordeaux, France Spanish Artist Painting Romanticism Josefa Bayeu 6
Édouard Manet 1832-01-23 1883-04-30 Paris, France Paris, France French Artist Painting Realism/Impressionism Suzanne Leenhoff 1
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-02-25 1919-12-03 Limoges, France Cagnes-sur-Mer, France French Artist Painting Impressionism Aline Charigot 3
Paul Cézanne 1839-01-19 1906-10-22 Aix-en-Provence, France Aix-en-Provence, France French Artist Painting Post-Impressionism Hortense Fiquet 1
Georges Seurat 1859-12-02 1891-03-29 Paris, France Paris, France French Artist Painting Pointillism Madeleine Knobloch 1
Paul Gauguin 1848-06-07 1903-05-08 Paris, France Atuona, Marquesas Islands French Artist Painting Post-Impressionism Mette-Sophie Gad, Pahura 11
Henri Matisse 1869-12-31 1954-11-03 Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France Nice, France French Artist Painting, sculpture Fauvism Amélie Parayre 3
Wassily Kandinsky 1866-12-16 1944-12-13 Moscow, Russia Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Russian/French Artist Painting, art theory Abstract Art Anna Chimyakina, Nina Andreevskaya 1
Piet Mondrian 1872-03-07 1944-02-01 Amersfoort, Netherlands New York City, USA Dutch Artist Painting De Stijl/Neoplasticism None None
Edvard Munch 1863-12-12 1944-01-23 Løten, Norway Oslo, Norway Norwegian Artist Painting, printmaking Expressionism None None
Gustav Klimt 1862-07-14 1918-02-06 Baumgarten, Austria-Hungary Vienna, Austria Austrian Artist Painting Symbolism/Art Nouveau None None
Egon Schiele 1890-06-12 1918-10-31 Tulln an der Donau, Austria Vienna, Austria Austrian Artist Painting Expressionism Edith Harms None
Jackson Pollock 1912-01-28 1956-08-11 Cody, Wyoming, USA Springs, New York, USA American Artist Painting Abstract Expressionism Lee Krasner None
Andy Warhol 1928-08-06 1987-02-22 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA New York City, USA American Artist Painting, printmaking, film Pop Art None None
Mark Rothko 1903-09-25 1970-02-25 Daugavpils, Russian Empire New York City, USA American Artist Painting Abstract Expressionism Edith Sachar, Mell Beistle 2
Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-11-15 1986-03-06 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA American Artist Painting Modernism Alfred Stieglitz None
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-12-22 1988-08-12 Brooklyn, New York, USA New York City, USA American Artist Painting Neo-Expressionism None None
William Shakespeare 1564-04-26 1616-04-23 Stratford-upon-Avon, England Stratford-upon-Avon, England English Writer Plays, sonnets, poetry Elizabethan Anne Hathaway 3
Miguel de Cervantes 1547-09-29 1616-04-22 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Madrid, Spain Spanish Writer Novel Renaissance Catalina de Salazar 1
Jane Austen 1775-12-16 1817-07-18 Steventon, England Winchester, England English Writer Novel Romanticism None None
Charles Dickens 1812-02-07 1870-06-09 Portsmouth, England Gad's Hill Place, England English Writer Novel Victorian Catherine Hogarth 10
Leo Tolstoy 1828-09-09 1910-11-20 Yasnaya Polyana, Russia Astapovo, Russia Russian Writer Novel Realism Sophia Behrs 13
Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821-11-11 1881-02-09 Moscow, Russia Saint Petersburg, Russia Russian Writer Novel Realism Maria Isaeva, Anna Snitkina 4
Franz Kafka 1883-07-03 1924-06-03 Prague, Austria-Hungary Kierling, Austria Czech/Austrian Writer Novel, short fiction Modernism None None
Virginia Woolf 1882-01-25 1941-03-28 London, England Lewes, England English Writer Novel, essays Modernism Leonard Woolf None
Ernest Hemingway 1899-07-21 1961-07-02 Oak Park, Illinois, USA Ketchum, Idaho, USA American Writer Novel Modernism Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Welsh 3
Gabriel García Márquez 1927-03-06 2014-04-17 Aracataca, Colombia Mexico City, Mexico Colombian Writer Novel Magic Realism Mercedes Barcha 2
George Orwell 1903-06-25 1950-01-21 Motihari, British India London, England English Writer Novel, essays Political Fiction Eileen O'Shaughnessy, Sonia Brownell 1
Marcel Proust 1871-07-10 1922-11-18 Auteuil, France Paris, France French Writer Novel Modernism None None
James Joyce 1882-02-02 1941-01-13 Dublin, Ireland Zürich, Switzerland Irish Writer Novel, short fiction Modernism Nora Barnacle 2
Homer ~800 BC ~700 BC Ionia (disputed) Unknown Greek Writer Epic poetry Ancient Greek Unknown Unknown
Dante Alighieri 1265-05-01 1321-09-14 Florence, Republic of Florence Ravenna, Republic of Ravenna Italian Writer Epic poetry, philosophy Medieval Gemma Donati 4
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-08-28 1832-03-22 Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire Weimar, German Confederation German Writer Novel, poetry, drama Classicism/Romanticism Christiane Vulpius 5
Victor Hugo 1802-02-26 1885-05-22 Besançon, France Paris, France French Writer Novel, poetry, drama Romanticism Adèle Foucher 5
Edgar Allan Poe 1809-01-19 1849-10-07 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Baltimore, Maryland, USA American Writer Short fiction, poetry Romanticism/Gothic Virginia Clemm None
Mark Twain 1835-11-30 1910-04-21 Florida, Missouri, USA Redding, Connecticut, USA American Writer Novel Realism Olivia Langdon 4
Emily Dickinson 1830-12-10 1886-05-15 Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Amherst, Massachusetts, USA American Writer Poetry Romanticism None None