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1543 1598-1616 1628
a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who lived and worked in Haarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture.
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Frans Hals 1543 1598
1616 1628
Karel van Mander 1548, May 1570 1604 1606, Sep 2 a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch... Alessandro Allori 1535, May 31 1561 1607 1607, Sep 22 an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school His varied output included altarpieces... Federico Zuccari 1540/41 ca 1550 1609 1609, Aug 6 an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. His documented caree... Hans von Aachen 1552 1574 1609 1615, Mar 4 a German mannerist painter. He became well known as a painter of portraits for noble houses. He a... Ludovico Cardi 1559, Sep 21 1581 1610 1613, Jun 8 an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and acti... Denis Calvaert 1540 1560 1619 1619, Apr 16 a Flemish painter born at Antwerp, who lived in Italy for most of his life. Calvaert was a profou... Pedro Díaz de Villanueva unknown 1610 1619 unknown Spanish artist, taught Francisco de Zurbarán. Very little is known about him Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 ca 1569 1620 1625, Nov 16 an Italian Renaissance painter, mainly of portraits, born in Cremona to a noble family, but a rel... Cristofano Allori 1577, Oct 17 1600 1620 1621, Apr 1 an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. He became one of the foremos... Clara Peeters unknown 1607 1621 unknown a still-life painter who came from Antwerp and trained in the tradition of Flemish Baroque painti... Willem Pietersz Buytewech 1591/92 1612 1624 1624, Sep 23 a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the mer... Denis van Alsloot 1570 ca 1599 1626 1626 ca a Flemish landscape and genre painter and draughtsman. At the turn of the 17th century his career... Otto van Veen 1556 ca 1572 1629 1629, May 6 a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteen... Abel Grimmer 1570 ca 1586 1629 1625 ca a Flemish late Renaissance painter, mainly of landscapes and, to a lesser extent, of architectura... Peter Binoit unknown 1610 1629 unknown a flower painter of the 17th century, flourished in Cologne. Very little is known about his life.... Arent Arentsz 1586 1600 1631 1631, Aug a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Arentsz was born and died in Amsterdam. According to the RK... Jacques Callot 1592 1610 1633 1635 a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine. He is an important person in the d... Hendrick Avercamp 1585, Jan 1608 1634 1634, May a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the... Giovanni Battista Crescenzi 1577 1610 1635 1635 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ... Francisco Pacheco 1571 1611 1644 1654 a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Can... Cristobal Vela 1588 ca 1610 1645 1654 a Spanish Baroque painter and gilder. Vela studied in Córdoba, Andalusia, with Pablo de Céspede... Nicolas Lagneau unknown 1600 1650 unknown a French draftsman noted for his portrait drawings. He was especially interested in grotesque phy... Alexander Adriaenssen 1587 1610 1650 1661 a Flemish Baroque still-life painter, particularly known for his renderings of fish. Born in Antw... Francesco Albani 1578, Mar/Aug 17 1600 1659 1660, Oct 4 an Italian Baroque painter, known for paintings of mythological and poetic subjects. Among the be... Guercino 1591, Feb 8 1607 1666 1666, Dec 22 an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologn... Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598, Dec 7 1609 1678 1680, Nov 28 an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc...
