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He is best known for his arrogant, icy portraits. Court painter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a man of ...

The last significant Florentine High Renaissance painter. Influenced in subjects, style, and technique by Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. He created ...

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

Born in Bologna, he lived in Rome from 1595. The most talented member of the brilliant trio (with brother Agostino ...

At one time a revered and popular (especially in the seventeenth and seventeenth centuries) artist. Nowadays he is not very ...

Painter, draftsman, and etcher; main exponent of Late Mannerism, its Northern European variant. Born in Antwerp. He worked in France, ...

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

His full name was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The only one among the famous artists with such a criminal past ...

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

Somewhat obscure Venetian painter in the mold of Titian and Giorgione. His emotional and poetic painting is rich in color ...

A painter from Urbino who made sentimental paintings on religious subjects, Barocci was very ill, which can sometimes be evident ...

The paintings of Filippino, son of Fra Filippo Lippi, were successful in their day, but stylistically outdated in his later ...

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

He lived a short life, developed early as an artist, had great success (he was called the "Raphael reborn"). He ...

Painter, born and trained in Bologna. Worked with Giulio Romano in Mantua. In 1532 he moved to France under the ...

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

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

Painter, architect, writer, art historian, collector. A popular and entertaining personality whose patrons - an inveterate gossip - were said ...

Giorgione's real name was Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco. The young, short-lived genius of the Venetian School, who ranks in achievement, ...

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

Also known as Giulio Pippi. Architect, painter, and draftsman; a major exponent of Mannerism. Student and assistant of Raphael; strongly ...

Known for his fantastic faces and bodies made up of vegetables, trees, fruits, fish, and the like. He had the ...

He was born in Antwerp. In 1549 he arrived in London. His manner is difficult to identify. Note the pale ...

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

The most famous member of the famous Venetian da Ponte family from Bassano (where Italian grappa is made). He was ...

Short-lived artist, well-regarded painter of the greatest period of Venetian art, of the same generation as Titian. His less good ...

Also known as Jacopo Carucci. A Florentine, from Pontormo. Nervous, hysterical, lonely, melancholic, slow, capricious, hypochondriac, a talented painter (it ...

His father was a dyer (tintore), hence the nickname, Tintoretto. Very little is known about his life. Although not very ...

The second son of Pieter Breugel the Elder, nicknamed "Velvet" (his name also retaining the “h” in Breughel). He painted ...

Jan Gossaert, nicknamed Jan Mabuse, was a native of Mauberge (now France). He is one of the key figures in ...

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

Joachim Patinir (also called Patenier) was the first painter to make landscape his principal theme. He created a special type ...

A popular Antwerp-based painter of devotional altarpieces and portraits. In his work tradition (finely detailed northern technique, overloaded symbolism, stiffly ...

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

A less significant and unevenly worked Venetian painter. He traveled extensively. He died abandoned and forgotten. His portraits, altarpieces, and ...

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

At one time he was Haarlem's leading artist. He created portraits, altarpieces on mythological subjects. A trip to Rome in ...

The leading Antwerp painter. His work combines Flemish realism and love of detail with Italian subjects and idealizations (he visited ...

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

Master of decorative paintings and portraits. Born and educated in Modena, he later perfected his art in Bologna. His fantastical ...