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Fresco
Fresco (plural either frescos or frescoes) is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), which has Germanic origins. Frescoes were often made during the...
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was a Venetian painter and printmaker. He was prolific, and worked not only in the region of Veneto or Venetia, one of Italy's twenty...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1696
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 1770 (age 74 years)
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18, 1455), 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 Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his...
Date of birth:
- 1395
Date of death:
- Feb 18, 1455 (age 60 years)
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello (born Paolo di Dono, 1397 – 10 December 1475) was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was...
Date of birth:
- 1397
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1475 (age 78 years)
Masaccio
Masaccio (born Tommaso Casser or in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428), was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1401
Date of death:
- 1428 (age 26 years)
Giotto di Bondone
Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 – January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian...
Date of birth:
- 1267
Date of death:
- 1337 (age 70 years)
Antonio da Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known simply as Correggio, (August 1489 – March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1489
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1534 (age 44 years)
Filippino Lippi
Filippino Lippi (c. 1457 – April 1504) was a well-known painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy.
Born Filippo Lippi in Prato (Tuscany), the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and nun Lucrezia Buti, Filippino...
Date of birth:
- 1457
Date of death:
- Apr 1504 (age 47 years)
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was a North Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the...
Date of birth:
- 1431
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1506 (age 75 years)
Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – October 12, 1492) 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 chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting...
Date of birth:
- 1415
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1492 (age 77 years)
Simone Martini
Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil...
Date of birth:
- 1284
Date of death:
- 1344 (age 60 years)
Masolino da Panicale
Masolino da Panicale (also known as Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini) (Panicale, Umbria c. 1383 – c. 1447) was an Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes...
Date of birth:
- 1383
Date of death:
- 1447 (age 64 years)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 – June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.
His work shows the influence of...
Date of birth:
- 1290
Date of death:
- Jun 9, 1348 (age 58 years)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1825
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1905 (age 79 years)
Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino (1446–1524) 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 Città della Pieve, Umbria, the son of Cristoforo...
Date of birth:
- 1446
Date of death:
- 1524 (age 78 years)
Pisanello
Pisanello (c. 1395 – probably 1455), known professionally as Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto, also erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian...
Date of birth:
- 1395
Date of death:
- 1455 (age 60 years)
Filippo Lippi
Fra' Filippo Lippi (1406 – October 8, 1469), also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school.
Lippi was born in Florence to Tommaso, a butcher. Both his parents died when he was still a child. Mona...
Date of birth:
- 1406
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1469 (age 63 years)
Gino Severini
Gino Severini (7 April 1883–26 February 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1883
Date of death:
- Feb 26, 1966 (age 82 years)
Trento Longaretti
Trento Longaretti is an Italian painter, born in 1916 in the comune of Treviglio in the Province of Bergamo.
His high school studies were in Milan, then from 1931 to 1939 he studied at the Accademia di Brera, during which he first exhibited his...
Date of birth:
- 1916 (age 94 years)
