| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
| M | MELZI, Francesco | (1493-1570) | High Renaissance | Italian painter |
| | MEMBERGER, Kaspar the Elder | (c. 1555-1618) | Mannerism | Swiss painter |
| | MEMLING, Hans | (c. 1440-1494) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Bruges) |
| | MEMMI, Lippo | (c. 1285-c. 1361) | Medieval | Italian painter (Siena) |
| | MEMMO DI FILIPPUCCIO | (active 1288–1324) | Medieval | Italian painter |
| | MENA, Pedro de | (1628-1688) | Baroque | Spanish sculptor |
| | MENAGEOT, François-Guillaume (see MÉNAGEOT, François-Guillaume) | (1744-1816) | Rococo | French painter |
| | MENE, Pierre-Jules (see MÊNE, Pierre-Jules) | (1810-1879) | Romanticism | French sculptor (Paris) |
| | MENEGHELLO di Giovanni de' Canali | (doc. 1383-1427) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Zadar) |
| | MENESES OSORIO, Francisco | (c. 1640-1721) | Baroque | Spanish painter (Seville) |
| | MENGHINI, Niccolò | (1610-1665) | Baroque | Italian sculptor (Rome) |
| | MENGOZZI COLONNA, Girolamo | (1688-1774) | Rococo | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | MENGS, Anton Raphael | (1728-1779) | Baroque | German painter |
| | MENJAUD, Alexandre | (1773-1832) | Neoclassicism | French painter (Paris) |
| | MENZEL, Adolph von | (1815-1905) | Realism | German painter (Berlin) |
| | MERANO, Giovanni Battista | (1632-1698) | Baroque | Italian painter |
| | MERCIÉ, Antonin | (1845-1916) | Realism | French sculptor (Paris) |
| | MERCIER, Philip | (c. 1689-1760) | Rococo | French painter (London) |
| | MERCK, Jacob Fransz. van der | (c. 1610-1664) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| | MERCK, Johann Christof | (active 1695-1726) | Baroque | German painter (Berlin) |
| | MERIAN, Matthäus the Elder | (1593-1650) | Baroque | Swiss graphic artist |
| | MERIAN, Matthäus the Younger | (1621-1687) | Baroque | Swiss painter |
| | MERSSEMAN, Auguste Joseph Marie de | (1808-1879) | Realism | Belgian painter (Antwerp) |
| | MERVILLE, Karl Georg | (1751-1798) | Rococo | Austrian sculptor (Vienna) |
| | MERYON, Charles | (1821-1868) | Realism | French graphic artist (Paris) |
| | MESA, Juan de | (1583-1627) | Baroque | Spanish sculptor (Seville) |
| | MESSERSCHMIDT, Franz Xaver | (1736-1783) | Rococo | Austrian sculptor |
| | MESSMER, Franz | (1728-1773) | Rococo | Austrian painter (Vienna) |
| | MESZOLY, Geza (see MÉSZÖLY, Géza) | (1844-1887) | Realism | Hungarian painter |
| | METCALF, Willard Leroy | (1858-1925) | Impressionism | American painter |
| | METEZEAU, Clement II (see MÉTEZEAU, Clément II) | (1581-1652) | Baroque | French architect |
| | METEZEAU, Louis (see MÉTEZEAU, Louis) | ( 1559-1615) | Mannerism | French architect |
| | METSU, Gabriel | (1629-1667) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Leiden) |
| | METSYS, Quinten (see MASSYS, Quentin) | (1465/66-1530) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | METZ, Conrad Martin | (1749-1827) | Rococo | German graphic artist |
| | MEUCCI, Vincenzo | (1694-1766) | Rococo | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | MEULEN, Adam Frans van der | (1632-1690) | Baroque | Flemish painter |
| | MEULEN, Johannes van der (see VERMEULEN, Jan) | (active c. 1638-1674) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Haarlem) |
| | MEULEN, Steven van der | (active 1543-1568) | Northern Renaissance | Netherlandish painter (London) |
| | MEULENER, Pieter | (1602-1654) | Baroque | Flemish painter |
| | MEUNIER, Constantin | (1831-1905) | Realism | Belgian sculptor (Brussels) |
| | MEYNIER, Charles | (1768-1832) | Neoclassicism | French painter (Paris) |
| | MEYRING, Heinrich | (c. 1638-1723) | Baroque | German sculptor (Venice) |
| | MEYTENS, Martin I (see MIJTENS, Martin I) | (1648-1736) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Stockholm) |
| | MEYTENS, Martin van, II | (1695-1770) | Baroque | Austrian painter |
| | MICHALLON, Achille-Etna | (1796-1822) | Neoclassicism | French painter (Paris) |
| | MICHAU, Théobald | (1676-1765) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | MICHEL, Claude (see CLODION) | (1738-1814) | Rococo | French sculptor |
| | MICHEL, Georges | (1763-1843) | Romanticism | French painter |
| | MICHELANGELO Buonarroti | (1475-1564) | High Renaissance | Italian sculptor |