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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 18th Century

  1. John Constable
  2. JMW Turner
  3. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  4. John Sell Cotman
    John Sell Cotman; Windmill
  5. John Crome
  6. François Boucher
  7. Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  8. William Blake
  9. Katsushika Hokusai
  10. Antonio Canova

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 17th Century

  1. Claude Lorrain
  2. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  3. Willem van der Velde the Younger
    Willem van der Velde the Younger
    Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail
  4. Johannes Vermeer
  5. Wenceslaus Hollar
  6. Aelbert Cuyp
  7. Pieter de Hooch
  8. Antoine Watteau
  9. William Hogarth
  10. Peter Lely

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 16th Century

  1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    The Peasant Wedding
  2. Nicolas Poussin
  3. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  4. Anthony van Dyck
  5. Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  6. El Greco
  7. Nicholas Hilliard
  8. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
  9. Frans Hals
  10. Hendrick Avercamp

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born Before 1500

  1. Albrecht Durer
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Fra Angelico
  4. Jan van Eyck
  5. Hieronymus Bosch
    Hieronymus Bosch
    Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
  6. Giotto
  7. Donatello
  8. Filippo Lippi
  9. Piero della Francesca
  10. Sandro Botticelli