Artists and Creative Minds

Artists and creative minds shape visual culture through painting, sculpture and related crafts. In European art, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael Sanzio exemplify different achievements of the Renaissance, while Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer illuminate the Dutch Golden Age. Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edvard Munch represent later approaches to light, form and expression as art developed toward modernism.