Italy

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

Alberto Sotio (also Alberto Sozio) was an Italian painter, born probably around 1100 and died in 1187. He is considered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi. She was kidnapped at 19 and tortured during the subsequent court case to see if she ...

Little-known artist. Painted decadent everyday scenes, mythological and religious pictures. Preferred allegorical themes based on conflict. He painted in a ...

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, ...

Italian painter, born about 1290, died about 1349. Daddi, a young contemporary of Giotto, may have been his pupil. He ...

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

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 ...

Cimabue was the most prominent Florentine painter of the late thirteenth century and a contemporary of Dante. Traditionally said to be ...

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 ...

Born in Bologna' worked in Rome and Naples. He was small in stature (Domenichino means “little Dominic”) and had an ...

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, ...

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

Duccio di Buoninsegna was the founder of the Sienese school of painting of the XIV century. His painting is full ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter and architect and also the founder of the Proto-Renaissance. He was born in ...

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 established the enthusiasm for large-scale illusionistic decoration of churches and palaces in Rome and Naples. He painted crowds with ...

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