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Explore artists’ lives through selected works, materials and changing visual choices. Each guide offers a sourced comparison; uncertain dates and attributions remain visible.
Katsushika Hokusai
1760–1849
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Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858
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Kitagawa Utamaro
1754–1806
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi
1797–1861
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Utagawa Toyokuni
1769–1825
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Shen Zhou
1427–1509
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Shitao
1642–1707
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Wen Zhengming
1470–1559
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Tang Yin
1470–1523
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Claude Monet
1840–1926
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Vincent van Gogh
1853–1890
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Paul Cezanne
1839–1906
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Georges Seurat
1859–1891
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Berthe Morisot
1841–1895
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Edgar Degas
1834–1917
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Mary Cassatt
1844–1926
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Paul Gauguin
1848–1903
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Winslow Homer
1836–1910
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John Singer Sargent
1856–1925
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James McNeill Whistler
1834–1903
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Ma Yuan
Active late 12th–early 13th century
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Rembrandt van Rijn
1606–1669
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Peter Paul Rubens
1577–1640
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Anthony van Dyck
1599–1641
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Camille Pissarro
1830–1903
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841–1919
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Francisco de Goya
1746–1828
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John Constable
1776–1837
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Paolo Veronese
1528–1588
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775–1851
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Tilman Riemenschneider
c. 1460–1531 (museum catalogue)
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Filippino Lippi
1457–1504
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Sandro Botticelli
1445–1510 (Uffizi chronology)
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Hendrick Goltzius
1558–1617
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Jacques Bellange
1575–1616
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Caravaggio
1571–1610
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Filippo Parodi
1630–1702
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
1695–1750
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Nicolas Delaunay
1739–1792
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Thomas Hope
1769–1831
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François Chazeray
Documented in Paris, 1760–1793; life dates unverified
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Eugène Delacroix
1798–1863
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Gustave Courbet
1819–1877
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William Holman Hunt
1827–1910
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Frederick Sandys
1829–1904
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Henri-Edmond Cross
1856–1910
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Edmond François Aman-Jean
1858–1936
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Odilon Redon
1840–1916
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Clara Wolcott Driscoll
1861–1944
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880–1938
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Ernst Barlach
1870–1938
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María Blanchard
1881–1932
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Louis Marcoussis
1883–1941
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Kurt Schwitters
1887–1948
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Piet Mondrian
1872–1944
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Puming
Active 14th century; exact life dates uncertain
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Zhao Mengfu
1254–1322
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Ogata Kōrin
1658–1716
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Koshiro Onchi
1891–1955
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