| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
| M | MABUSE (see GOSSAERT, Jan) | (c. 1478-1532) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter |
| | MACAGNINO DA SIENA, Angelo di Pietro del (see ANGELO DA SIENA) | (active 1447-1456) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Ferrara) |
| | MACCHIETTI, Girolamo | (c. 1535-1592) | Mannerism | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | MACHADO DE CASTRO, Joachim | (1736-1822) | Rococo | Portuguese sculptor |
| | MACHUCA, Pedro | (1490/95-1550) | High Renaissance | Spanish architect (Granada) |
| | MACHY, Pierre-Antoine de | (1723-1807) | Neoclassicism | French painter (Paris) |
| | MACLISE, Daniel | (1806-1870) | Romanticism | Irish painter |
| | MADERNO, Stefano | (c. 1576-1636) | Baroque | Italian sculptor |
| | MADOU, Jean-Baptiste | (1796-1877) | Romanticism | Belgian painter |
| | MAELLA, Mariano Salvador de | (1739-1819) | Neoclassicism | Spanish painter (Madrid) |
| | MAES, Nicolaes | (1634-1693) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | MAFFEI, Francesco | (c. 1600-1660) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MAGDALEN MASTER (see MASTER OF MAGDALEN) | (active c. 1265-1290) | Medieval | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | MAGGIOTTO, Domenico | (1712-1794) | Rococo | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MAGINI, Carlo | (1720-1806) | Rococo | Italian painter (Fano) |
| | MAGNASCO, Alessandro | (1667-1749) | Baroque | Italian painter (Milan) |
| | MAINARDI, Bastiano | (1466-1513) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | MAINO, Fray Juan Bautista | (1581-1649) | Baroque | Spanish painter (Madrid) |
| | MAINO, Giovanni Angelo del | (c. 1475-c. 1536) | High Renaissance | Italian sculptor (Pavia) |
| | MAITANI, Lorenzo | (c. 1255-1330) | Medieval | Italian sculptor (Orvieto) |
| | MALER, Hans | (c. 1480-c. 1529) | Northern Renaissance | German painter |
| | MÄLESSKIRCHER, Gabriel | (c. 1425-1495) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Bavaria) |
| | MALLET, Jean-Baptiste | (1759-1835) | Rococo | French painter |
| | MALOUEL, Jean | (active 1397-1415) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Burgundy) |
| | MAN, Cornelis de | (1621-1706) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Delft) |
| | MANCINI, Francesco | (1679-1758) | Baroque | Italian painter |
| | MANDER, Karel van, the Elder | (1548-1606) | Mannerism | Dutch painter |
| | MANDIJN, Jan | (c. 1500-1559) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | MANETTI, Rutilio | (1571-1639) | Mannerism | Italian painter (Siena) |
| | MANFREDI, Bartolomeo | (1582-after 1622) | Baroque | Italian painter (Rome) |
| | MANGLARD, Adrien | (1695-1760) | Baroque | French painter (Italy) |
| | MANSUETI, Giovanni | (known 1485-1526) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MANTEGAZZA, Cristoforo | (active 1464-1482) | Early Renaissance | Italian sculptor (Pavia) |
| | MANTEGNA, Andrea | (1431-1506) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter |
| | MANUEL, Niklaus | (c. 1484-1530) | Northern Renaissance | Swiss painter (Bern) |
| | MANUTIUS, Aldus | (c. 1450-1515) | Early Renaissance | Italian graphic artist (Venice) |
| | MÁNYOKI, Ádám | (1673-1757) | Baroque | Hungarian painter |
| | MAO (see SALINI, Tommaso) | (1575-1625) | Baroque | Italian painter (Rome) |
| | MARATTI, Carlo | (1625-1713) | Baroque | Italian painter (Rome) |
| | MARCHESINI, Alessandro | (1663-1738) | Baroque | Italian painter (Verona) |
| | MARCONI, Rocco | (active 1504-1521) | High Renaissance | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MARCY, Gaspard (see MARSY, Gaspard) | (1624-1681) | Baroque | French sculptor |
| | MARÉES, George de | (1697-1776) | Rococo | Swedish painter (Munich) |
| | MARÉES, Hans von | (1837-1887) | Romanticism | German painter (Italy) |
| | MARESCALCO, IL (see BUONCONSIGLIO, Giovanni) | (c. 1465-c. 1535) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MARIANI, Camillo | (c. 1565-1611) | Mannerism | Italian sculptor (Rome) |
| | MARIESCHI, Michele | (1710-1743) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MARILHAT, Prosper | (1811-1847) | Romanticism | French painter |
| | MARIN, Joseph Charles | (1759-1834) | Rococo | French sculptor |
| | MARINALI, Orazio | (1643-1720) | Baroque | Italian sculptor |