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Criteria: Influence, contemporary & historical acclaim, initial & lasting popularity

Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of art. This means that in the broader scope of a global art history certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America.

1. Michelangelo
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Rembrandt van Rijn
5. Giotto
6. Jan van Eyck
7. Claude Monet
8. Raphael
9. Paul Cézanne
10. Caravaggio
11. Vincent van Gogh
12. Auguste Rodin
13. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
14. Diego Velázquez
15. Wassily Kandinsky
16. Albrecht Dürer
17. Donatello
18. Édouard Manet
19. J. M. W. Turner
20. Johannes Vermeer
21. Francisco Goya
22. Salvador Dalí
23. Henri Matisse
24. Jackson Pollock
25. Peter Paul Rubens
26. Titian
27. Giorgione
28. Hieronymus Bosch
29. El Greco
30. Hokusai
31. Andy Warhol
32. Paul Gauguin
33. Gustav Klimt
34. Edvard Munch
35. Caspar David Friedrich
36. John Constable
37. Jacques-Louis David
38. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
39. Edgar Degas
40. Sandro Botticelli
41. William Blake
42. Jean-Michel Basquiat
43. Mark Rothko
44. Georges Seurat
45. Eugène Delacroix
46. Théodore Géricault
47. René Magritte
48. Edward Hopper
49. Georgia O'Keeffe
50. Frida Kahlo
51. Massaccio
52. Duccio
53. Giovanni Bellini
54. Kazimir Malevich
55. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I don't know much about the topic, but here in Spain I see Velazquez and Goya much more acclaimed than Picasso.

Obviously you'd know their reputation in Spain better than me but it hardly can be extrapolated on the rest of the world.

Rothko should probably be somewhere in the top 50.

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