Artists by Time Period: Italian Renaissance

Cimabue
Cimabue
Artists

Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue (c. 1240 — c. 1302) also known as Bencivieni di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe, was an Italian painter and creator of mosaics from...

Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico
Artists

Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". Known in...

Leone Battista Alberti
Leone Battista Alberti
Authors, Artists

Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist...

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Artists, Authors

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519 was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect,...

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Authors, Artists

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making...

Masaccio
Masaccio
Artists

Masaccio , was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His...

Raphael
Raphael
Artists, Authors

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone , , was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the...

Donatello
Donatello
Artists

Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo,...

Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli
Authors, Artists

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the...

Giorgione
Giorgione
Artists

Giorgione is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italian painter, a seminal artist of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic...

Titian
Titian
Artists, Authors

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio , better known as Titian, was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di...

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Artists

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 – 11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo. Ghirlandaio's full name is given as Domenico di...

Filippino Lippi
Filippino Lippi
Artists

Filippo Lippi was a well-known painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy. Born Filippo Lippi in Prato , the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo...

Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna
Authors, Artists

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance artist, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented...

Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca
Artists

Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries, he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is...

Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio
Artists

Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in...

Masolino da Panicale
Masolino da Panicale
Artists

Masolino da Panicale was an Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with...

Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina
Artists

Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish...

Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio
Artists

Bernardino di Betto, called Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio (Italian pronunciation: [pintu'rikkjo]; 1454–1513) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname, Pintoricchio...

Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino
Artists

Pietro Perugino was the leading painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. He was born Pietro Vannucci in...

Filippo Lippi
Filippo Lippi
Artists

Fra' Filippo Lippi , also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento school. Lippi was born in Florence to Tommaso, a butcher. Both his...

Agostino di Duccio
Agostino di Duccio
Artists

Agostino di Duccio was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor. Born in Florence, he worked in Prato with Donatello and Michelozzo, who influenced him greatly. In 1441, he was accused of...

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