Artists You Should Know: Home

While this LibGuide was made primarily for Art and Art History students, everyone can benefit from learning about at least a few representative artists from different time periods, movements, and countries.

The top boxes are artists that EVERYONE should know.

The lower boxes are artists that Art students should be familiar with.

The various time periods of art history are not usually precise and more than one movement was active at any given time.

The movements and dates we have used in this LibGuide are as follows:

Ancient: ~30,000 B.C. - 400 A.D.

Medieval: 400 - 1400

Renaissance: 1400 - 1600

Baroque: 1600 - 1750

18th & 19th Century: 1750 - 1880

Modern Art: 1880 - 1970

Contemporary Art: 1970 - present

These time periods reflect when the various artists were active, not their specific birth years.

Links in this LibGuide:

• Artist names are linked to their Wikipedia articles.
• The library call numbers are linked to the YSU library catalog if the library owns books about them or their art.
• The Representative Works are links to the images, preferably to the museum that houses each image.