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Has hung his own art, uninvited, in the Louvre and MoMA.BanksyCarving Zuccone, he yelled at the marble: 'Speak, damn you!'DonatelloDied at 37 on Good Friday, possibly on his own birthday.RaphaelAt his obscenity trial, a judge burned a drawing in court.Egon SchieleLet strangers use 72 objects on her, including a loaded gun.Marina AbramovicA barber's son, a Royal Academician at just 27 years old.J. M. W. TurnerShot in 1968, declared dead, then revived by a surgeon.Andy Warhol'Bosch' was not his name but his hometown, Den Bosch.Hieronymus BoschLeft canvases out in the rain, calling it their horse-cure.Edvard MunchFilled his notebooks with backwards, mirror-image writing.Leonardo da VinciSigned just one work, the Pieta, then never signed again.MichelangeloHas lived in a psychiatric hospital by choice since 1977.Yayoi KusamaPainted at home in a long robe with nothing underneath.Gustav KlimtImpressionism got its name from a critic mocking his work.Claude MonetThe most prolific painter ever: about 13,500 paintings.Pablo PicassoSailed to Portugal to paint a bride for his choosy duke.Jan van EyckHas hung his own art, uninvited, in the Louvre and MoMA.BanksyCarving Zuccone, he yelled at the marble: 'Speak, damn you!'DonatelloDied at 37 on Good Friday, possibly on his own birthday.RaphaelAt his obscenity trial, a judge burned a drawing in court.Egon SchieleLet strangers use 72 objects on her, including a loaded gun.Marina AbramovicA barber's son, a Royal Academician at just 27 years old.J. M. W. TurnerShot in 1968, declared dead, then revived by a surgeon.Andy Warhol'Bosch' was not his name but his hometown, Den Bosch.Hieronymus BoschLeft canvases out in the rain, calling it their horse-cure.Edvard MunchFilled his notebooks with backwards, mirror-image writing.Leonardo da VinciSigned just one work, the Pieta, then never signed again.MichelangeloHas lived in a psychiatric hospital by choice since 1977.Yayoi KusamaPainted at home in a long robe with nothing underneath.Gustav KlimtImpressionism got its name from a critic mocking his work.Claude MonetThe most prolific painter ever: about 13,500 paintings.Pablo PicassoSailed to Portugal to paint a bride for his choosy duke.Jan van Eyck

Killed a man, then had a bounty on his own severed head.CaravaggioSpent a decade barely working, and destroyed what she made.Shirin NeshatLearned to paint by making giant Bollywood billboards.M F HusainHis job interview for the Pope: a freehand perfect circle.GiottoOne of his Card Players sold for around 250 million dollars.Paul CezanneThe Night Watch is daylight, just darkened by old grime.Rembrandt van RijnA third of her works are self-portraits, made while alone.Frida KahloPainted The Starry Night from his asylum room window.Vincent van GoghFor all his fame, only about 120 works survive, no prints.Diego VelázquezOne of eighteen children, and one of only three to survive.Albrecht DürerBefore art, he guarded Edo Castle as a hired fire warden.Utagawa HiroshigeThe Nazis called him degenerate and seized 57 of his works.Wassily KandinskyForgotten for 200 years, then rediscovered in the 1860s.Johannes VermeerShe's her own model, stylist, makeup artist, and shooter.Cindy ShermanHe was around 70 when he made The Great Wave off Kanagawa.Katsushika HokusaiHer Judith was so bloody a duchess hid it in a dark corner.Artemisia GentileschiKilled a man, then had a bounty on his own severed head.CaravaggioSpent a decade barely working, and destroyed what she made.Shirin NeshatLearned to paint by making giant Bollywood billboards.M F HusainHis job interview for the Pope: a freehand perfect circle.GiottoOne of his Card Players sold for around 250 million dollars.Paul CezanneThe Night Watch is daylight, just darkened by old grime.Rembrandt van RijnA third of her works are self-portraits, made while alone.Frida KahloPainted The Starry Night from his asylum room window.Vincent van GoghFor all his fame, only about 120 works survive, no prints.Diego VelázquezOne of eighteen children, and one of only three to survive.Albrecht DürerBefore art, he guarded Edo Castle as a hired fire warden.Utagawa HiroshigeThe Nazis called him degenerate and seized 57 of his works.Wassily KandinskyForgotten for 200 years, then rediscovered in the 1860s.Johannes VermeerShe's her own model, stylist, makeup artist, and shooter.Cindy ShermanHe was around 70 when he made The Great Wave off Kanagawa.Katsushika HokusaiHer Judith was so bloody a duchess hid it in a dark corner.Artemisia Gentileschi

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St. Francis Preaching to the BirdsGiotto · 1297Portrait of a Young ManMasaccio · 1426AnnunciationFra Angelico · 1438Portrait of a Young ManSandro Botticelli · 1480The Bacchanal of the AndriansTitian · 1523St GeorgeTintoretto · 1560Madonna and Child with Saint John the BaptistBarbara Longhi · 1588Still LifeClara Peeters · 1610Portrait Bust of Pedro de Foix MontoyaGian Lorenzo Bernini · 1621Pope Urban VIIIGian Lorenzo Bernini · 1635Vanitas with Sunflower and Jewelry BoxMaria van Oosterwijck · 1668Flowers in a Glass Vase,with Insects and Peaches,on a Marble TabletopRachel Ruysch · 1708Nudo femminileGiulia Lama · 1734Three Courtesans Stroll Amidst Cherry BlossomsKitagawa Utamaro · 1793Moonrise by the SeaCaspar David Friedrich · 1822The Start of the HuntEdgar Degas · 1869The Gardens of l'Hermitage, PontoiseCamille Pissarro · 1877Taira no Kiyomori sees the skulls of his victimsTsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1885At Gennelle, Absinthe DrinkerHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1892The Sleeping GypsyHenri Rousseau · 1897Breastfeeding mother of Paula Modersohn-BeckerPaula Modersohn-Becker · 1906States of Mind III: Those Who StayUmberto Boccioni · 1911Dynamism of a Human BodyUmberto Boccioni · 1913Fugue in RedPaul Klee · 1921