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He was one of the greatest painters of the early Renaissance. He worked at the court for the dukes of ...

He was born in Messina, Sicily, and lived in Venice from 1475 to 1476. Antonello was one of the pioneers ...

The Venetian brothers Antonio (c. 1415-1484) and Bartolomeo Vivarini (c. 1432-1499) created old-fashioned altarpieces with stiff figures and elaborately carved ...

This early Renaissance Florentine master was a rather prosaic artist, rather an artisan, but in his works, one can feel ...

Pinturicchio was a serious representative of the Umbrian school of painting, strongly influenced by Perugino. A highly skilled, prolific, ambitious, ...

This artist of the Venetian school worked in a strict old-fashioned style. The master's works are characterized by ornamental, attention ...

This Venetian painter was strongly influenced by Giovanni Bellini, from whom he borrowed a sonorous golden coloration and learned the ...

As a well-known Florentine painter, Rosselli belonged to the division and painted run-of-the-mill religious works. Cosimo Rosselli’s major works are ...

Also known as Dirk (Thierry) Bouts. Possibly he was a pupil of Rogier van der Weyden. Very little is known ...

This Florentine master achieved success with a solid, old-fashioned yet realistic storytelling style His most famous pupil was Michelangelo. Ghirlandaio painted ...

This artist was a famous and influential Venetian painter who worked in Florence. Almost nothing is known about his life, ...

De Roberti was the court painter to the d’Este family in Ferrara. A shadowy figure, with very few works, firmly ...

The paintings of Filippino, son of Fra Filippo Lippi, were successful in their day, but stylistically outdated in his later ...

Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar. This artist's work combines old-fashioned Gothic and progressive Renaissance ideas. Fra Angelico's art, naive ...

An outstanding Florentine painter whose work reflected the transition from the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance. His large-scale, elaborate ...

Fra Filippo Lippi is an outstanding Early Renaissance Florentine whose work forms a bridge between Masaccio and Botticelli. His sincerely-felt ...

Gentile was the brother of Giovanni Bellini and he was much respected in his own lifetime. was noted especially for ...

This Italian painter, born in Fabriano of the Marches, was the most accomplished exponent of the International Gothic style. He ...

The last significant Netherlandish painter in the tradition of Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. David worked in Bruges and ...

Giovanni Bellini is the most famous artist of the Bellini family; he is a supreme master of the early Renaissance ...

This Sienese master, who preferred the old-fashioned style of painting, was called "The El Greco of the Quattrocento”. The painter ...

He is a prolific, Bruges-based pupil of van der Weyden. His large altarpieces are too rigid, with stiff figures like ...

Bosch was the last, and perhaps the greatest, of the medieval painters. He was admired in his lifetime; the artist ...

An obscure genius about whom little is known; spent his last years in a monastery, going mad. The only work ...

Jacopo was the father of Giovanni Bellini. Not much is known about him, very little of his work survives other ...

He is one of the most notable and distinctive artists of the Northern Renaissance, who was formed without Italian influence. ...

Van Eyck's origins are dark and mysterious, only known work is from the 1430s onward. As an artist and diplomat, ...

This Florentine master does not belong to the first division of Renaissance artists, although he imitated the style of Leonardo ...

Lorenzo was born in Siena but spent all his professional life in Florence. This monk (monaco is Italian for “monk”) was ...

Signorelli was intense and gifted but outclassed by Raphael and Michelangelo. He turned his paintings into dramatic (or even overdramatic) ...

Masaccio, the greatest Florentine painter of the Early Renaissance, lived a short life, but he revolutionized the art of painting, ...

Masolino was recognized as an outstanding painter, although now he is best remembered as a collaborator of Masaccio. Thanks to ...

One of the most prolific and popular painters of the Sienese School. In contrast to contemporary Florentines, he had a ...

A genius who cast his influence over all European art until Picasso broke the spell and changed the rules. Sculptor ...

The work of the Florentine artist Paolo di Dono nicknamed Uccello ("the bird") can be instantly recognizable by the schematic ...

He was a major underrated painter from Bruges, a follower of van Eyck, and influenced by van der Weyden. His ...

He was one of the greatest masters of the Early Renaissance, whose work was appreciated in the XX century. The ...

He was an out-of-the-ordinary painter for the Early Renaissance. A misanthrope who preferred to the humanistic ideals of the Renaissance ...

Pietro Vannuccia was a hardworking, prolific, middle-ranking painter from Perugia, Umbria, hence his nickname: his real name was Pietro Vannucci. ...

Pisanello was very popular with princely courts as a painter, decorator, portraitist, and medallist, but few works now survive. His ...