In the words of Horace, "A picture is a poem without words." and as said by Edgar Degas, "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see". Artists become the medium for us to see the universe through their eyes. History's greatest artists are of different kinds. Some were impressionists, while others can be categorized as surrealists. So, here is the list of the painters who beguiled one and all with their magic and left their vibrant footprints in history.

1.Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, or mostly known as Leonardo Da Vinci. This magician needs no introduction. This Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer is considered one of the greatest painters of all time and also, perhaps one of the most diversely talented people to have ever walked on the earth. With an unquenchable curiosity, this man played a vital role in the Renaissance period. Need not to be named but his most famous works include Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Bacchus, and many more.

2.Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was also an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. He is known to have influenced a great deal on Western Art. He is considered to be one of the most versatile, disciplined artists and was also considered the greatest living artist of his lifetime. His arts include David, The Creation Of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, and more.

3.Oscar-Claude Monet, who goes by just Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting. He was the most consistent in following the movement's philosophy of expressing one's feelings before nature, especially as applied to landscape painting. An interesting fact, Monet's ambition to bring down the French countryside on his canvas, led him to adopt a method of painting in which he would draw the same scene many times in order to capture the change of lights and passing of the seasons. His most famous works include Water Lilies, The Japanese Footbridge, and The Water Lily Pool, Impression, and many more.

4.Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright. Hailing from Spain, he spent most of his adult life in France. He is known to have influenced 20th-century art in the most beautiful ways possible. From co-founding the Cubist Movement to the invention of constructed sculpture to the invention of collage and a variety of styles, you name it and he has done it. His works include Guernica, The Old Guitarist, Family of Saltimbanques, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and more.

The list can continue forever because artists who have influenced us and made us see a world of theirs are innumerable. So, the above list just contains the colors that shone a little more than the others in the canvas known as Art.

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