| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
| A | AACHEN, Hans von | (1552-1615) | Mannerism | German painter |
| | ABADIA, Juan de la | (active 1470-1490) | Early Renaissance | Spanish painter (Huesca) |
| | ABAQUESNE, Masséot | (c 1500-1564) | High Renaissance | French potter |
| | ABBATE, Niccolò dell' | (1509-1571) | Mannerism | Italian painter (Bologna) |
| | ABILDGAARD, Nicolai | (1743-1809) | Romanticism | Danish painter |
| | ADAM, Lambert-Sigisbert | (1700-1759) | Baroque | French sculptor (Nancy) |
| | ADAM, Nicolas-Sébastien | (1705-1778) | Baroque | French sculptor (Nancy) |
| | ADRIAEN VAN UTRECHT (see UTRECHT, Adriaen van) | (1599-1652) | Baroque | Flemish painter |
| | ADRIAENSSEN, Alexander | (1587-1661) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | AELST, Willem van | (c. 1626-1683) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Delft) |
| | AENVANCK, Theodoor | (1633-1690) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | AERT VAN ORT | (active 1490-1536) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish glass painter |
| | AERTSEN, Pieter | (1508-1575) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Amsterdam) |
| | AGASSE, Jacques-Laurent | (1767-1849) | Neoclassicism | Swiss painter (London) |
| | AGOSTINO DI GIOVANNI | (active 1310-1347) | Medieval | Italian sculptor (Siena) |
| | AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (see MUSI, Agostino dei) | (c. 1490-c. 1536) | High Renaissance | Italian graphic artist |
| | AIVAZOVSKY, Ivan Konstantinovich | (1817-1900) | Realism | Russian painter |
| | AKOTANTOS, Angelos | (?-c. 1457) | Medieval | Greek painter (Crete) |
| | ALBA, Macrino d' | (c. 1460-c. 1528) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Alba) |
| | ALBANI, Francesco | (1578-1660) | Baroque | Italian painter (Bologna) |
| | ALBEREGNO, Jacobello | (died before1397) | Medieval | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | ALBERTI, Leon Battista | (1404-1472) | Early Renaissance | Italian architect |
| | ALBERTINELLI, Mariotto | (1474-1515) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | ALBOTTO, Francesco | (1721-1757) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | ALCIBAR, José de | (1725/30-1803) | Baroque | Other painter (Mexico) |
| | ALDROVANDI, Ulisse | (1522-1605) | Mannerism | Italian graphic artist (Bologna) |
| | ALEIJADINHO (see LISBOA, Antonio Francisco) | (1738-1814) | Rococo | Portuguese sculptor (Brazil) |
| | ALENZA Y NIETO, Leonardo | (1807-1845) | Neoclassicism | Spanish painter (Madrid) |
| | ALGARDI, Alessandro | (1598-1654) | Baroque | Italian sculptor (Rome) |
| | ALIENSE, Il (see VASSILACCHI, Antonio) | (1556-1629) | Mannerism | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | ALINCBROT, Louis | (1400/10-1460) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Valencia) |
| | ALLADIO, Gian Giacomo de (see ALBA, Macrino d') | (c. 1460-c. 1528) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Alba) |
| | ALLEGRAIN, Christophe-Gabriel | (1710-1795) | Rococo | French sculptor (Paris) |
| | ALLEGRAIN, Etienne | (1644-1736) | Baroque | French painter (Paris) |
| | ALLEGRI, Antonio (see CORREGGIO) | (c. 1490-1534) | High Renaissance | Italian painter (Parma) |
| | ALLORI, Alessandro | (1535-1607) | Mannerism | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | ALLORI, Cristofano | (1577-1621) | Baroque | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | ALLSTON, Washington | (1779-1843) | Romanticism | American painter |
| | ALLYNCBROOD, Louis (see ALINCBROT, Louis) | (1400/10-1460) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Valencia) |
| | ALMONACID, Sebastián de | (c. 1460-1526) | Early Renaissance | Spanish sculptor |
| | ALSLOOT, Denis van | (1570-1628) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Brussels) |
| | ALTDORFER, Albrecht | (c. 1480-1538) | Northern Renaissance | German painter |
| | ALTENSTETTER, David | (c. 1547-1617) | Northern Renaissance | German goldsmith (Augsburg) |
| | ALTICHIERO da Zevio | (c. 1330-c. 1390) | Medieval | Italian painter (Verona) |
| | ALTOMONTE, Martino | (1657-1745) | Baroque | Austrian painter |
| | ALVARO DI PIETRO (see PIREZ D'ÉVORA, Alvaro) | (active 1411-1434) | Early Renaissance | Portuguese painter (Italy) |
| | AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio (see OMODEO, Giovanni Antonio) | (1447-1522) | Early Renaissance | Italian sculptor |
| | AMBERGER, Christoph | (c. 1505-1562) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Augsburg) |
| | AMBROGIO DA FOSSANO (see BERGOGNONE, Ambrogio) | (c. 1453-1523) | High Renaissance | Italian painter (Lombardy) |
| | AMERLING, Friedrich von | (1803-1887) | Romanticism | Austrian painter (Vienna) |