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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 ...

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

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 ...

He died tragically at a young age. Less than ten authenticated works are known, but they show the versatility of ...

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 ...

Teniers is best known for his genre paintings depicting rough peasants, such as in Boors Carousing. After 1651 he detailed ...

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

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 ...

A pupil of Rembrandt. Many of his works are very much in the master’s style, to whom his works have ...

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 ...

He is considered a remarkable, but not a great artist. His main customers were Spanish religious orders. He depicted saints ...

An artist fully formed in the Netherlands who never left Haarlem. After Rembrandt, he is the best painter in Dutch. ...

Son of an innkeeper. The undisputed master of the Baroque still life. He became a rich man. There are many ...

The artist achieved great mastery of the courtyard scenes. His paintings depict scenes of the well-ordered life of the Dutch ...