Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who painted faces made of fruit and vegetables · Italian
Jean Arp, the artist of smooth, rounded shapes · French · small dogs
John James Audubon, the painter of The Birds of America
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the great sculptor of Baroque Rome · Italian
Pierre Bonnard, the French painter of glowing interiors, often with his dachshund · French
Sandro Botticelli, the painter of The Birth of Venus · Italian
Eugene Boudin, the painter of beaches and skies who taught Monet · French
Georges Braque, a founder of Cubism · French
The Florentine court painter, whose name hints at his bronze complexion · Italian
Pieter Bruegel, the Flemish painter of village life · Flemish
The Venetian painter of canals and city views · Italian
The Italian painter of dramatic light and dark · Italian
Marc Chagall, the painter of dreamy flying lovers · Russian
Jean Baptiste Chardin, the French painter of still lifes · French
The sculptor's cutting tool
Camille Corot, the French landscape painter · French
An artist of Cubism, the movement of broken up angles and shapes
Louis Daguerre, the inventor of an early form of photography · French
Edgar Degas, the French painter of ballet dancers · French
Eugene Delacroix, the French Romantic painter · French
The Renaissance sculptor of Florence · Italian
Marcel Duchamp, the artist who turned everyday things into art · French
Raoul Dufy, the French painter of bright seaside scenes · French
Albrecht Durer, the German master of woodcuts and engravings · German
The Greek born painter of Spain's golden age · Spanish
Jean Honore Fragonard, the painter of The Swing · French
Thomas Gainsborough, the English painter of portraits and landscapes
Paul Gauguin, the French painter of bold colour · French
The Florentine painter who began the Renaissance · Italian
Francisco Goya, the great Spanish painter · Spanish
Utagawa Hiroshige, the Japanese master of woodblock landscapes · Japanese
William Hogarth, the English painter who put his own pug in his self portrait
Katsushika Hokusai, the Japanese artist of The Great Wave · Japanese
Hans Holbein, the painter of the Tudor court · German
Edward Hopper, the American painter of quiet city scenes, a fun pick for a bouncy dog
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, the French portrait painter · French
Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstract painting · Russian
Paul Klee, the Swiss German painter of playful colour · German
Gustav Klimt, the Viennese painter of The Kiss, famous for gold leaf · German
Edwin Landseer, the Victorian painter of dogs, who gave his name to a Newfoundland coat · big dogs
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, the painter of Paris nightlife · French · small dogs
L. S. Lowry, the English painter of matchstick figures in northern towns
Rene Magritte, the Belgian surrealist of bowler hats and apples · French
Edouard Manet, the French painter who paved the way for Impressionism · French
Henri Matisse, the French master of colour and paper cut outs · French
The Renaissance master of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the statue of David · Italian
Amedeo Modigliani, the painter of long, elegant faces · Italian
Piet Mondrian, the Dutch painter of grids and primary colours · Dutch
Alphonse Mucha, the Czech master of Art Nouveau posters · Czech
Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter of The Scream · Norwegian
Camille Pissarro, the father figure of the Impressionists · French
Nicolas Poussin, the French classical painter · French
Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master of light and shadow · Dutch
Joshua Reynolds, the first president of the Royal Academy
Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist · Spanish
Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor of The Thinker · French
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Pre Raphaelite painter and poet · Italian
Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painter of the Baroque · Flemish
John Singer Sargent, the great portrait painter
Paul Signac, the painter of dots of colour · French
Alfred Sisley, the Impressionist painter of rivers and skies
Joaquin Sorolla, the Spanish painter of sunlit beaches · Spanish
George Stubbs, the English painter of horses and dogs
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the Venetian painter of ceilings · Italian
Jacopo Tintoretto, the Venetian painter, whose name means little dyer · Italian · small dogs
The Venetian painter whose name became a word for a rich auburn red · Italian
Paolo Uccello, the painter whose nickname means bird · Italian
Anthony van Dyck, the court painter of King Charles I · Flemish
Diego Velazquez, the Spanish court painter of Las Meninas, which shows a large dog · Spanish
Johannes Vermeer, the Dutch painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring · Dutch
Antoine Watteau, the French painter of elegant outdoor parties · French
French for an artist's studio or workshop · French
The grand, dramatic art style of the 17th century
An Indonesian art of dyeing cloth with wax patterns · Indonesian
Unglazed fired pottery, pale and soft to look at
The woven cloth that painters work on
Art made by sticking scraps of paper and fabric together
A stick of coloured wax for drawing
Short for Art Deco, the sleek style of the 1920s and 1930s
The blue and white pottery of the Dutch city of Delft · Dutch
The wooden stand that holds an artist's canvas
A print made from a metal plate marked with acid
French for wild beast, from Fauvism, the movement of wild colour · French
Painting onto fresh wet plaster, as on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
A long band of carved or painted decoration
The chalky white primer painted onto a canvas before the picture · Italian
The glassy coating fired onto pottery
An opaque watercolour paint
Paint laid on so thickly the brush marks stand out · Italian
The hot oven where clay pots are fired
A glossy hard varnish, an ancient art in China and Japan
A picture made from small pieces of stone, glass or tile
A repeated shape or idea in a work of art
A large painting made directly on a wall
Short for Art Nouveau, the flowing, plant inspired style of around 1900 · French
The Japanese art of paper folding · Japanese · small dogs
Painting with tiny dots of pure colour, perfect for a spotty dog
The chubby winged children of Renaissance and Baroque art · Italian · small dogs
A Japanese way of firing pottery that makes crackled, smoky glazes · Japanese
The playful, ornate art style of 18th century France
A quick, loose line drawing, for a dog who never sits still
Italian for smoky, the soft blending Leonardo used for the Mona Lisa · Italian
The Japanese art of tie dye · Japanese
Italian for baked earth, the warm orange clay of pots and tiles · Italian
Japanese for floating world, from ukiyo e woodblock prints · Japanese
Fine calfskin parchment used for old manuscripts