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Caravaggio, Michelangelo, 1571–1610, Italian painter. His surname, Caravaggio, came from his birthplace.

Egon Schiele was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the predestined successor to Gustav Klimt, but died before he could fulfil his promise.

His paintings of genre subjects have allegorical or moralizing significance. In his tremendous range of invention!

For a considerable period of time, Sargent was the world's best-known and most highly paid portrait painter.

Today he is ranked among the greatest Dutch masters and considered one of the foremost of all colorists.

Russian abstract painter and theorist. Usually regarded as the originator of abstract art!

At the time of its creation, Klimt's painting Judith I, 1901, was considered the incarnation of the femme fatale.

In both paintings and prints he introduced a new era of modern, urban subject-matter.

Alma-Tadema mastered the art of genre painting, specializing in historical genre scenes!

His early Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1902; Munich, Lenbachhaus) reveals in its form and construction that he already possessed an astonishing mastery of traditional artistic means.