World’s Top 10 Greatest Painters & Sculptors

One of my most favorite college courses while studying art was Art History. It helped of course that I had a professor who was so passionate about our world’s greatest artists and masterpieces. I recall taking notebooks full of handwritten notes on these artists, and making flashcards of each painting and sculpture with all the known facts about them. I’ve been fortunate to see some of the masterpieces in person at the Louvre in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Here is a top 10 list of the world’s greatest painters and sculptor compiled by Neil Collins MA LLB.

#10 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) #9 Jan Van Eyck (1390-1441) #8 Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) #7 Claude Monet (1840-1926) #6 Donatello (1386-1466) #5 JMW Turner (1775-1851) #4 Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) #3 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) #2 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) #1 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)