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Old Master

An Old Master (or old master) is one of the great European painters who lived 1500 through 1800, or a painting by one of these painters. Here is a short and by no means complete list of Old Masters:

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
Michelangelo (Italian, 1475-1564)
Titian (Italian, c.1477-1576)
Raphael (Italian, 1480-1520)
Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1518-1594)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, c.1525-1569)
Paolo Veronese (Italian, c.1528-1588)
El Greco (Greek, 1541-1614)
Frans Hals (Dutch, 1580-1666)
Caravaggio (Italian, 1573-1610)
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1691-1770)

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.

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