Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
29,499 artists in the collection
Alan Harold Colquhoun
Alan Kessler
Alan Labb
Alan Magee
Alan Saret
Alan Sonfist
Alan Wood-Thomas
Alart du Hameel
Alart du Hameel
Netherlandish
1449 - 1509
Al-Badry, Wesaam
American
American, born Iraq, 1984
Albani, Francesco
Italian
Bolognese, 1578 - 1660
Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of Albanian descent who was active in Bologna (1591–1600; 1609; 1610; 1618–1622), Rome (1600–1609; 1610–1617; 1623–1625), Viterbo (1609–1610), Mantua (1621–1622) and Florence (1633). He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci’s classicism. His fame rests on his idyllic landscapes and small mythological pictures, the lyrical qualities of which earned him the soubriquet ‘the Anacreon of painters’.
Albany E. Howarth