Old Masters

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Old Masters are renowned European painters and their works, typically created before the 19th century, celebrated for their technical mastery and historical significance.


Statements (100)
Predicate Object
instanceOf art historical term
cultural concept
associatedWithPeriod Baroque
Dutch Golden Age
Flemish Baroque
Italian Renaissance
Mannerism
Neoclassicism
Northern Renaissance
Renaissance
Rococo
Spanish Golden Age
contrastedWith contemporary art
modern art
exhibitedIn major European museums
major North American museums
hasAlternativeForm Old Master painters
Old Master works
hasCharacteristic historical significance
technical mastery
hasMarketCategory Old Master drawings
Old Master paintings
Old Master prints
hasNotableExample Albrecht Dürer
Andrea Mantegna
Annibale Carracci
Anthony van Dyck
Artemisia Gentileschi
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Canaletto
Caravaggio
Carlo Dolci
Claude Lorrain
Claude Monet (in some market usages extending into early modernism)
Correggio
Diego Velázquez
El Greco
Eustache Le Sueur
Filippo Lippi
Fra Angelico
Fra Filippo Lippi
Francisco Goya
Frans Hals
Georges de La Tour
Gerrit Dou
Giorgione
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Bellini
Guercino
Guido Reni
Hans Baldung
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Memling
J. M. W. Turner
Jacob van Ruisdael
Jacques-Louis David
Jan van Eyck
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Johannes Vermeer
Joshua Reynolds
Leonardo da Vinci
Luca Giordano
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Masaccio
Meindert Hobbema
Michelangelo
Nicolas Poussin
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Veronese
Parmigianino
Perugino
Peter Paul Rubens
Piero della Francesca
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pietro Perugino
Raphael
Rembrandt
Rogier van der Weyden
Sandro Botticelli
Thomas Gainsborough
Tintoretto
Titian
hasRegion Europe
hasTemporalScope before the 19th century
includesArtForm drawing
painting
printmaking
influenced academic art traditions
art education curricula
languageOfOrigin English
refersTo paintings by renowned European painters
renowned European painters
usedInField art history
art market
museum curation
valuedFor craftsmanship
influence on later art
provenance
rarity

Referenced by (18)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Chatsworth House ("Old Master paintings")
Kenwood House ("Old Master paintings")
Kunsthaus Zürich ("Old Masters collection")
Städel Museum
hasCollection
Old Masters ("Old Master painters")
Old Masters ("Old Master works")
hasAlternativeForm
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow
Grant Wood ("European Old Masters")
influencedBy
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister ("European Old Master paintings")
collectionFocus
Soumaya Museum
collectionIncludes
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium ("Old Masters paintings")
collectionType
Detroit Institute of Arts ("European Old Masters")
hasCollectionStrength
Iveagh Bequest
hasCollectionType
Flanders ("Flemish Primitives")
hasCulturalHeritage
Kunstmuseum Basel
hasCuratorialFocus
Städel Museum ("Old Masters department")
hasDepartment
Old Masters ("Old Master paintings")
hasMarketCategory
National Gallery of Victoria ("European Old Masters")
hasNotableCollection

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