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Renaissance
The Renaissance (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from ri- "again" and nascere "be born") was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more...
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1571
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1610 (age 38 years)
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1452
Date of death:
- May 2, 1519 (age 67 years)
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1475
Date of death:
- Feb 18, 1564 (age 89 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)
Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola (also spelled Anguisciola; c. 1532 - November 16, 1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
Sofonisba Anguissola was born in Cremona, Lombardy around 1532, the oldest of seven children, six of whom were daughters. Her...
Date of birth:
- 1532
Date of death:
- Nov 16, 1625 (age 93 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)
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together...
Date of birth:
- Apr 6, 1483
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1520 (age 37 years)
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈrɒnəməs bɒʃ/, Dutch: [ɦieːˈɾoːniməs ˈbɔs]; born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken [jəˈrun ɑnˈtoːnɪsoːn vɑn ˈaːkə(n)]; c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and...
Date of birth:
- 1450
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1516 (age 66 years)
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn vɑn ˈɛjk]; before c. 1395 – before July 9, 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.
There is a common...
Date of birth:
- 1385
Date of death:
- 1441 (age 56 years)
Donatello
Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; c. 1386 – December 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in...
Date of birth:
- 1386
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 1466 (age 81 years)
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; c. 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1445
Date of death:
- May 17, 1510 (age 65 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)
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Le Lorrain) (c. 1600 – 21 or 23 November 1682) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in...
Date of birth:
- 1600
Date of death:
- 1682 (age 82 years)
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi (sometimes and perhaps more correctly spelled Fillippo) (1377 – April 15, 1446) was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy. As explained by...
Date of birth:
- 1377
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 1446 (age 69 years)
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
Vasari was born in Arezzo, Tuscany....
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1511
Date of death:
- Jun 27, 1574 (age 62 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)
Bartolommeo Bandinelli
Bartolommeo (or Baccio) Bandinelli, actually Bartolommeo Brandini (17 October 1493 – shortly before 7 February 1560), was a Renaissance Italian sculptor, draughtsman and painter.
Bandinelli was the son of a prominent Florentine goldsmith, and first...
Date of birth:
- 1493
Date of death:
- 1560 (age 67 years)
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 (probably c.1488/1490), died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian (pronounced /ˈtɪʃən/), was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in...
Date of birth:
- 1485
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1576 (age 91 years)
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti (born Lorenzo di Bartolo) (1378 – 1 December 1455) was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking.
Ghiberti was born in Florence. His father was Bartoluccio Ghiberti, a trained...
Date of birth:
- 1378
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 1455 (age 77 years)
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (November 3, 1500 – February 13, 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician , who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.
Benvenuto Cellini was born in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 3, 1500
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 1571 (age 70 years)
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He...
Date of birth:
- 1430
Date of death:
- 1516 (age 86 years)
Antonio Pollaiuolo
Antonio del Pollaiolo (January 17, 1429/1433 – February 4, 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiolo, was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance.
He was born in Florence.
His brother,...
Date of birth:
- 1432
Date of death:
- Feb 4, 1498 (age 66 years)
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese (1528 – April 19, 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. He adopted the name Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari, and became known as...
Date of birth:
- 1528
Date of death:
- Apr 19, 1588 (age 60 years)
Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470 – August 31, 1528), was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and...
Date of birth:
- 1470
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1528 (age 58 years)
Tintoretto
Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin; September 29, 1518 – May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1518
Date of death:
- May 31, 1594 (age 75 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)
Michelozzo
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi (1396 - 1472) was an Italian architect and sculptor.
Born in Florence, the son of a tailor, he was a pupil of Ghiberti in his early years and later collaborated with Donatello.
He worked in marble, bronze, and...
Date of birth:
- 1396
Date of death:
- 1472 (age 76 years)
David Kandel
David Kandel (1520 - 1592) was a Renaissance artist. One of the best qualities of the Renaissance Period was its everlasting concern with the elements of the natural world. David Kandel was one of the best known pioneers of botanical art and science...
Date of birth:
- 1520
Date of death:
- 1592 (age 72 years)
Marcantonio Raimondi
Marcantonio Raimondi, also simply Marcantonio, (c. 1480 – c. 1534) was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists mainly of prints copying paintings. He is therefore a key figure in the rise of...
Date of birth:
- 1480
Date of death:
- 1534 (age 54 years)
Master MS
Master M. S. (Hungarian: M. S. Mester, German: Meister M. S., Slovak: Majster M. S.) was a 16th century painter who specialized in late Gothic art and in early Renaissance art.
He was active in Banská Štiavnica (then Selmecbánya in Kingdom of...
Urs Graf
Urs Graf (born 1485 in Solothurn, Switzerland; died after 1529) was a Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (of woodcuts, etchings and engravings), as well as a mercenary soldier. He only produced two etchings, one of which dates from 1513 – the...
Date of birth:
- 1485
Date of death:
- 1529 (age 44 years)
Stanislaw Samostrzelnik
Stanisław Samostrzelnik (c. 1490–1541) was a Polish Renaissance painter and Cistercian monk from Kraków. He was the first Polish painter known by name who painted in the Renaissance style. There are many frescos by him in the churches of southern...
Date of birth:
- 1490
Date of death:
- 1541 (age 51 years)
Cosimo Tura
Cosimo Tura (c. 1430 – 1495), also known as Il Cosmè or Cosmè Tura, was an Italian early-Renaissance (or Quattrocento) painter and considered one of the founders of the School of Ferrara.
Born in Ferrara, he was a student of Francesco Squarcione of...
Date of birth:
- 1430
Date of death:
- 1495 (age 65 years)
Guglielmo da Marsiglia
Guglielmo da Marsiglia (1475 - 1537) is an Italian painter of stained glass of the 16th century. He is also known as Guglielmo da Marcillat, and was a native of Dt. Michiel near Meuse, France.
He created 3 windows in 1519 for the Cathedral of Arezzo...
Date of birth:
- 1475
Date of death:
- 1537 (age 62 years)
Taccola
Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola (1382 – c. 1453), called Taccola ('Crow'), was an Italian administrator, artist and engineer of the early Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis, which feature...
Date of birth:
- 1382
Date of death:
- 1453 (age 71 years)
Hieronymus Cock
Hieronymus (Jérôme) Cock (Kock) (c. 1510—1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher of the Northern Renaissance, but was perhaps most significant as a publisher and distributor of prints. He was born to a family of painters; his father was Jan Wellens...
Date of birth:
- 1510
Date of death:
- 1570 (age 60 years)
Bernardino Butinone
Bernardino Butinone (1435 or 1436 – c. 1507 or 1508) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly around Milan.
Born in Treviglio, he was the son of Jacopo da Treviglio, and also known as Bernardo da Treviglio.
A pupil of Vincenzo Foppa,...
Date of birth:
- 1435
Date of death:
- 1507 (age 72 years)
Flaminio Ponzio
Flaminio Ponzio (1560-1613) was an Italian architect during the late-Renaissance or so-called Mannerist period, serving in Rome as the architect for Pope Paul V.
Ponzio was born in Viggiù near Varese, and he died in Rome. After juvenile training in...
Date of birth:
- 1560
Date of death:
- 1613 (age 53 years)
Domenico Campagnola
Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500 – 1564) was an Italian painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut of the Venetian Renaissance, but whose most influential works were his drawings of landscapes.
Born probably in Venice, he was the pupil of his...
Date of birth:
- 1500
Date of death:
- 1564 (age 64 years)
Giampietrino
Giampietrino, possibly Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli (active 1495–1549), was a north Italian painter of the Lombard school and the Leonardo circle, succinctly characterized by S.J. Freedberg as an "exploiter of Leonardo's repertory."
He was a very...
Date of birth:
- 1508
Date of death:
- 1521 (age 13 years)
Bartolommeo Tutiani
Bartolommeo Tutiani was an Italian engraver on wood of the Renaissance period. He completed an engraving of Christ insulted by the Jews, printed in Augsburg in 1515.
Franco Tramazzino
Franco Tramazzino as an Italian engraver of the Renaissance, known for a print, dated 1561, representing a solemn entry into the city of Rome.
Rainer Maria Latzke
Rainer Maria Latzke (born December 28, 1950) is a German artist working in the field of trompe l'oeil and mural painting. He is Adj. Professor at the Utah State University and Founder of the Institute of Frescography in Logan, Utah.
Rainer Maria...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1950 (age 58 years)
Harry Carmean
Harry Carmean (born 5 August 1922, in Anthony, Kansas) is an American painter known for his figurative paintings based on the work of the old masters. The ideas of the Renaissance, Baroque, Mannerist and Impressionist art can all be seen in his work...
Date of birth:
- Aug 5, 1922 (age 87 years)