Albrecht Durer

(1471-1528) German

Durer visited Italy to learn about Renaissance perspective and how to draw nudes. His sense of color and proportion, and his engraving technique in particular, made him the greatest northern European artist of his day.

* Self-portrait; Knight

Paul Gauguin

(1848-1903) French

The Postimpressionist paintings of Gauguin show the primitive influences of Tahiti, where he spent much of his later life. His use of patterns of color to provoke the imagination made him an influential Symbolist artist.

*Tahitian Women; la Orana Maria

Francisco de Goya

(1746-1828) Spanish

Goya was a penetrating portraitist who painted his sitters in sometimes unflattering detail. He was also an early Romantic visionary whose depictions of the evils of war are unsurpassed.

*Family of Charles IV; 3 May 1808

Barbara Hepworth

(1903-75) British

This leading British abstract sculptor of the 20th century explored the relationship between space and form. Hepworth based her work on the shapes of naturally weathered objects.

*Single Form

David Hockney

(1937-) British

In the 1960s, Hockney emerged as a Pop Artist - a label he always rejected. Since his mid-twenties, the quality of his work - from painting and fine line drawing to collage and graphic art - has earned him critical acclaim.

*A Bigger Splash

William Hogarth

(1697-1764) British

Hogarth's brilliant satirical engravings and his accomplished, informal portraits made him the first great British artist.

*The Rake's Progress

Edward Hopper

(1882-1967) American

Hopper's paintings and etchings present an atmospheric vision of city life, depicting urban US interiors with lonely human figures. He is considered a master etcher and an outstanding figurative painter.

*Nighthawks

Wassily Kandinsky

(1866-1944) Russian-German

Kandinsky was the most influential early abstract theorist and painter. He believed that art should reflect inner feelings and that color and shape alone could create an emotional response.

*Sketch for Composition IV

Paul Klee

(1879-1940) Swiss

Klee's original, inventive style made him a unique 20th-century artist. His poetic form of abstract art is sometimes described as resembling doodles.

*Before the Gates of Kairouan.

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452-1519) Italian

Leonardo is often described as the artistic and scientific genius of the Renaissance. In his paintings, oil paint subtly models light and shade, creating pictures with mysterious landscapes and beautiful, expressive human figures.

*Mona Lisa

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