Here is my list of suggestions. Please let me know when there is an artist you think you might want to research and I will sign up your name on this list. Only one student per artist please. First come, first serve. (I've also put the generally accepted style/period of these artists, though these are not hard and fast rules. They are also generally in order historically.)
Giotto: Gothic
Jan van Eyck: Late Gothic (Caroline Qin)
Hieronymus Bosch: Late Gothic
Sandro Botticelli: Early Renaissance (Allie Cole)
Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance (Matt Li; Meghan Belinsky)
Michelangelo: Italian Renaissance (Borui Li)
Peter Paul Rubens: Baroque
Titian: High Renaissance
Raphael: High Renaissance (Luckie Deka)
Rembrandt: Baroque
Johannes Vermeer: Baroque (Timmy Wong)
Caravaggio: Italian Baroque
Diego Velázquez: Spanish Baroque (Amelia Paine)
Francisco de Zurbarán: Spanish Baroque
Pieter Brueghel: Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer: Northern Renaissance
El Greco: Mannerism
Parmigianino: Mannerism
Jacopo Tintoretto: Mannerism
Nicolas Poussin: French Baroque
Claude Lorraine: French Baroque
Canaletto: Italian Rococo (Mallory Kiley)
Thomas Gainsborough: British Rococo
Jacques-Louis David: French Neo-classical
John Singelton Copley: American Neo-classical
Francisco Goya: Spanish Romanticism
Eugène Delacroix: French Romanticism
John Constable: British Romanticism (Sean Tedesco)
J.M.W. Turner: British Romanticism
Caspar David Friedrich: German Romanticism (Jackie Paul)
Thomas Cole: American Romanticism (David Goodell)
Albert Bierstadt: American Romanticism
Edward Manet: French Impressionism (Hannah Almedom-de Waal)
Claude Monet: French Impressionism (Nick Bennett; Olivia Sutherland)
Auguste Renoir: French Impressionism (Angela Zheng)
Edward Degas: French Impressionism (Katie Creane; Zarina Patwa)
Mary Cassatt: American Impressionism
James Whistler: American Realism
Winslow Homer: American Realism (Alexis Miller)
Paul Cézanne: Post-Impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh: Post-Impressionism (Megan Fernandez; Nick Sutphin)
Paul Gauguin: Post-Impressionism
Edvard Munch: Symbolism (Melissa Desmond; Christina O'Neil)
Pablo Picasso: Cubism (amongst lots of other styles) (Daisy Hu; Danny Yang)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Pre-Raphaelite
Henri Matisse: Fauvism
Emil Nolde: German Expressionism
Oskar Kokoschka: German Expressionism (Zach Lowen)
Franz Marc: German Expressionism (Lindsay van Gelder)
Umberto Boccioni: Futurism
Marc Chagall: Fantasy (Modernism) (Ashley Morrison)
Aubrey Beardsley: Art Nouveau
Frieda Kahlo: Neil Shah
Piet Mondrian: Abstraction (Christina Wong)
Salvador Dali: Surrealism (Sara Blouin; Caleb G.)
René Magritte: Surrealism (Viet Tran; Erica Yuen)
Käthe Kollwitz: Expressionism (Caroline ver Planck)
John Singer Sargeant: American Realism & Portraiture (Harlem Renaissance)
Edward Hopper: Realism (Sharon Si; Andréa Yokum)
Georgia O'Keefe: Realism (Ally Daniels)
Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionism (Dan Holahan)
Alberto Giacometti: un-categorizable (though related to existentialism)
Wayne Thiebaud: pre-Pop (Claire Ferguson; Hannah Rebentisch)
Andy Warhol: Pop Art (Jenny Papisov)
Mark Rothko: Color Field Painting
Romare Bearden: African-American Modern Collage
Agnes Martin: Minimalism
Richard Estes: Photorealism (Ling-Ling MacLean)
Chuck Close: Photorealism
David Hockney: Yinian Tang
Banksy: Cole Gladstone
Remember that you may also want to consider which of these artists have works in the MFA that you would be able to look at firsthand. (You can search the MFA website to check: http://www.mfa.org/search/collections) This is something for all of you to consider as it will really help to be able to see at least one of your artist's artworks in person (to look at brushwork, color, technique, texture, size, etc.)
