Artists by birthplace
Discover the painters of the Artifact World Gallery corpus by the city where they were born. 323 cities are each the birthplace of at least 5 attributed artists — 7,608 painters in all — led by Paris, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, New York City. Each links to its artists, defining works, and the movements they shaped.
Looking for a whole country? Browse artists by nationality, or see where everyone was born on the artist atlas.
- Paris 505 artists · France
- Antwerp 439 artists · Belgium
- London 372 artists · United Kingdom
- Amsterdam 278 artists · Netherlands
- New York City 194 artists · United States
- Florence 169 artists · Italy
- Vienna 167 artists · Austria
- Copenhagen 151 artists · Denmark
- The Hague 151 artists · Netherlands
- Haarlem 120 artists · Netherlands
- Brussels 110 artists · Belgium
- Venice 107 artists · Italy
- Rome 99 artists · Italy
- Warsaw 92 artists · Poland
- Madrid 85 artists · Spain
- Berlin 82 artists · Germany
- Barcelona 79 artists · Spain
- Philadelphia 78 artists · United States
- Dublin 76 artists · Ireland
- Rotterdam 74 artists · Netherlands
- Utrecht 74 artists · Netherlands
- Edinburgh 66 artists · United Kingdom
- Leiden 66 artists · Netherlands
- Boston 65 artists · United States
- Chicago 62 artists · United States
- Bologna 61 artists · Italy
- Bruges 59 artists · Belgium
- Saint Petersburg 58 artists · Russia
- Naples 57 artists · Italy
- Buenos Aires 56 artists · Argentina
- Hamburg 55 artists · Germany
- Stockholm 51 artists · Sweden
- Lyon 50 artists · France
- Valencia 48 artists · Spain
- Los Angeles 47 artists · United States
- Nuremberg 47 artists · Germany
- Seville 47 artists · Spain
- Dordrecht 46 artists · Netherlands
- Ghent 46 artists · Belgium
- Kraków 46 artists · Poland
- Moscow 46 artists · Russia
- Milan 45 artists · Italy
- Brooklyn 44 artists · United States
- Munich 43 artists · Germany
- Siena 42 artists · Italy
- Geneva 40 artists · Switzerland
- Verona 39 artists · Italy
- Delft 38 artists · Netherlands
- Cologne 36 artists · Germany
- Mechelen 33 artists · Belgium
- Augsburg 32 artists · Germany
- Zurich 32 artists · Switzerland
- Glasgow 31 artists · United Kingdom
- Kyoto 31 artists · Japan
- Frankfurt 30 artists · Germany
- Edo 29 artists · Japan
- Genoa 29 artists · Italy
- Mexico City 29 artists · Mexico
- Dresden 27 artists · Germany
- Birmingham 24 artists · United Kingdom
More birthplaces
Each of these cities is the birthplace of at least 5 attributed artists in the corpus. Tap any to see its painters and defining works.
- Budapest 24
- Düsseldorf 23
- San Francisco 23
- Bordeaux 22
- Strasbourg 22
- Liverpool 20
- The Bronx 20
- Baltimore 19
- Cincinnati 19
- Ferrara 19
- Lviv 19
- Nantes 19
- Prague 19
- Brussels metropolitan area 18
- Bucharest 18
- Leipzig 18
- Liège 18
- Middelburg 18
- Santiago 18
- Suzhou 18
- Tokyo 18
- Lille 17
- Lisbon 17
- Norwich 17
- Washington, D.C. 17
- Detroit 16
- Gdańsk 16
- Havana 16
- Kyiv 16
- Marseille 16
- Parma 16
- Rio de Janeiro 16
- Rouen 16
- Zaragoza 16
- Cremona 15
- Gorinchem 15
- Kortrijk 15
- Tokyo 15
- Versailles 15
- Basel 14
- Cleveland 14
- Leeuwarden 14
- Stuttgart 14
- Bergamo 13
- Bristol 13
- Helsinki 13
- Leeds 13
- Manchester 13
- Montreal 13
- Nancy 13
- Newark 13
- Pittsburgh 13
- Toulouse 13
- Turin 13
- Wrocław 13
- Bern 12
- Brescia 12
- Caracas 12
- Montevideo 12
- Salzburg 12
- Toronto 12
- Tournai 12
- Breda 11
- Granada 11
- Groningen 11
- Hanover 11
- Hartford 11
- Leuven 11
- Lima 11
- Lübeck 11
- Modena 11
- Montpellier 11
- Nijmegen 11
- Osaka 11
- Vilnius 11
- Zwolle 11
- Aix-en-Provence 10
- Amersfoort 10
- Buffalo 10
- Greater London 10
- Kassel 10
- Lucca 10
- Mannheim 10
- New Haven 10
- Pest 10
- Pisa 10
- St. Louis 10
- Valladolid 10
- Aberdeen 9
- Athens 9
- Avignon 9
- Exeter 9
- Graz 9
- Hangzhou 9
- Maastricht 9
- Morges 9
- Namur 9
- Plymouth 9
- Providence 9
- Scotland 9
- Seoul 9
- Sydney 9
- São Paulo 9
- Valenciennes 9
- former 2nd arrondissement of Paris 9
- Alkmaar 8
- Arnhem 8
- Bogotá 8
- Charleston 8
- Chelsea 8
- Córdoba 8
- Frederiksberg 8
- Gouda 8
- Kiel 8
- Mantua 8
- Mons 8
- Nottingham 8
- Pistoia 8
- Q2766547 8
- Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 8
- Seattle 8
- Sheffield 8
- Syracuse 8
- Toledo 8
- Urbino 8
- Winterthur 8
- Altona 7
- Bassano del Grappa 7
- Christiania 7
- Dessau 7
- Dijon 7
- Enkhuizen 7
- Flensburg 7
- Lausanne 7
- Lier 7
- Long Beach 7
- Mainz 7
- Newcastle upon Tyne 7
- Oakland 7
- Oxford 7
- Padua 7
- Perugia 7
- Reggio Emilia 7
- Szczecin 7
- Tours 7
- Valparaíso 7
- Vicenza 7
- Wesel 7
- Aarhus 6
- Albany 6
- Alexandria 6
- Arezzo 6
- Beijing 6
- Berkeley 6
- Besançon 6
- Boulogne-sur-Mer 6
- Bradford 6
- Bratislava 6
- Bremen 6
- California 6
- Cento 6
- Columbus 6
- Cork 6
- Cádiz 6
- Derby 6
- Douai 6
- Fontainebleau 6
- Freiburg im Breisgau 6
- Gothenburg 6
- Grenoble 6
- Heidelberg 6
- Heraklion 6
- Kampen 6
- Kansas City 6
- Karlsruhe 6
- Königsberg 6
- Lambeth 6
- Lowell 6
- Lublin 6
- Melbourne 6
- Metz 6
- Milwaukee 6
- Málaga 6
- Münster 6
- Nagoya 6
- New Orleans 6
- Nîmes 6
- Oldenburg 6
- Regensburg 6
- Richmond 6
- Riga 6
- Sansepolcro 6
- Santander 6
- Stockholm City 6
- Sèvres 6
- Tbilisi 6
- Toulon 6
- Treviso 6
- Trieste 6
- Troyes 6
- former 10th arrondissement of Paris 6
- Łódź 6
- 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris 5
- 7th arrondissement of Paris 5
- Aachen 5
- Alcoy 5
- Ancona 5
- Beirut 5
- Belluno 5
- Bolton 5
- Bonn 5
- Brighton 5
- Brunswick 5
- Caen 5
- Cairo 5
- Changshu 5
- Chester 5
- Constantinople 5
- Cortona 5
- Dendermonde 5
- Faaborg 5
- Grasse 5
- Hoorn 5
- Houston 5
- Indianapolis 5
- Innsbruck 5
- Ixelles 5
- Jersey City 5
- Klara Church Parish 5
- Krefeld 5
- Kyōto 5
- Langres 5
- Laon 5
- Le Havre 5
- Leicester 5
- Linz 5
- Livorno 5
- Magdeburg 5
- Manhattan 5
- Memmingen 5
- Miami 5
- Minneapolis 5
- Murcia 5
- Nagasaki 5
- New York 5
- Newport 5
- Odesa 5
- Osnabrück 5
- Poitiers 5
- Reading 5
- Ringsted 5
- Roskilde 5
- Schaerbeek 5
- Taicang 5
- Tarnów 5
- Tehran 5
- Timișoara 5
- Toledo 5
- Udine 5
- Weimar 5
- Wilmington 5
- York 5
- former 12th arrondissement of Paris 5