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Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia.... painter
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Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli was a High Renaissance Italy Painting of the Florentine school, closely involved with Fra Bartolomeo and influenced by Raphael Sanzio.... (1474–1515)
Fra Angelico , 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".... (1387–1455)
Pietro Annigoni was an Italian portrait and fresco painter, who was famed for his portrait of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and an artist who uniquely contrasted in the mid-late 20th century art world dominated by Modernist and Post-Modernist art movements.... (1910–1988)
Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicily Painting active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of North Italy, especially Venice.... (1430-1479)
Gentile Bellini was an Italy painter. Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da Fabriano.... (c. 1429–1507)
Giovanni Bellini was an Italy Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venice painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna.... (c. 1430–1516)
Jacopo Bellini was an Italy painter. Jacopo was one of the founders of the Early Renaissance painting of painting in Venice and northern Italy.... (c. 1400–1470)
Andrea di Bertholotti of Cividale was an Italy painter, also called Bellunello) and was a master in the Guild of San Vito in 1462. He seems to have contracted for altar-pieces and mural decorations at Udine, San Vito, and the surrounding towns, up to 1490.... (fl.
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Floruit refers to a period of time during which a person, school, movement or even species was active or flourishing. It is the third person, singular, perfect tense, indicative, active form of the Latin verb florere ? "to flourish".... 1462–1492)
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italy Painting of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance .... (1445–1510)
Giovanni Antonio Canal , better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.... (1697–1768)
Elio Carletti was an Italy Impressionism artist.He was also an inspector for the Italian police. Information and history from the book by Pino Amatiello - Pino Amatiello passed away 10th Feb 2007.... (1925-1980)
LudovicoCarracci was an Italy, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna.Ludovico himself apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in Bologna and traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning to his hometown.... (1555–1619)
Vittore Carpaccio was an Italy painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula.... (c. 1460–c. 1525)
Cenni di Pepo Cimabue also known as Bencivieni di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe, was an Italy Painting and creator of mosaics from Florence.... (1240–1302)
Leonardo Coccorante was an Italian painter who was born in Naples, Italy. He studied with Jan Frans van Bloemen , Angelo Maria Costa , and finally with Gabriele Ricciardelli .... (1680-1750)
Antonio Allegri da Correggio was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italy Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century.... (1494–1534)
Giorgio de Chirico was an influential Surrealism and then Surrealist Greeks-Italian people Painting born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father.... (1888-1978)
Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism.... (1386–1466)
Duccio di Buoninsegna was one of the most influential Italian art of his time. Born in Siena, Tuscany, he worked mostly with pigment and egg tempera and like most of his contemporaries he painted religious subject matters.... (1255–1319)
Gentile da Fabriano was an Italy painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style.Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche.... (c. 1370–1427)
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo , known as Rosso Fiorentino , or Il Rosso, was an Italy Mannerism Painting, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.... (1494–1540)
Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Italian 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.... (c. 1416–1492)
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italy Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Michelangelo Merisi .... (1593–1652)
Giampietrino possibly Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, , was a north Italian painter of the Lombardy and the Leonardo da Vinci, succinctly characterized by S.J.... (c. 1495–1549)
Giorgione is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italy painter, a seminal artist of the High Renaissance in Venice.... (c. 1477–1510)
Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an italy Painting and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.... (1267–1337)
Giuseppe Pierre Joseph Grisoni also known as Grifoni or Grison was a Flemings/ Italy Painting and sculpture, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux.... (1699–1796)
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Italy painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.... (1712–1793)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti was an Italy painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately from 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.... (fl. 1319–1348)
Luigi Malice is an Italian artist.He was born in Naples. After his artistic formation in Naples he has attended the Fine Arts Academy there as a pupil of Emilio Notte's he furthered his artistic formation under the leadership of Domenico Spinosa, one of the most representative luminary of the Italian Informal and the Southern Avant-guard Pa... (1937– present)
Andrea Mantegna was a Venetian Renaissance artist, a student of Ancient Rome archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective , e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality.... (c. 1431–1506)
Simone Martini was an Italy 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.... (1284–1344)
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.... (1475–1564)
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian artist of Jewish heritage, practising both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France.... (1884–1920)
Lelio Orsi , was an Italy Renaissance painter of the Reggio Emilia school. He was born and died in Novellara, and much of his work was completed in Reggio.... (1511–1587)
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was a prominent Italy Mannerism Painting and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.... (1503–1540)
Ferdinando Partini was an Italian painter who was active in the 1790s. He is best known for his paintings of ancient buildings. His 1794 oil painting View of the Pantheon was featured in the exhibition Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with a reprodu... (active 1790s)
Pietro Pezzati was an Italian mural painter who painted many religious painting in churches throughout Italy.He painted the "Sacra Famiglia" in the Sant'Agostino di San Gimignano in Tuscany.... (1828–1890)
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi was an Italian architect and Painting, born in a small town near Siena and died in Rome. He worked for many years, beginning in 1520, under Bramante, Raphael, and later Antonio da Sangallo the Younger during the erection of the new St.... (1481–1537)
Bernardino di Betto, called Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio was an Italy Painting of the Renaissance.He was born in Perugia, the son of Benedetto or Betto di Blagio.... (1454–1513)
Sebastiano del Piombo , byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italy Renaissance-Mannerism painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school.... (c. 1485–1547)
Pisanello , 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 Renaissance and Quattrocento.... (1395–1455)
Antonio del Pollaiolo , also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiolo, was an Italian people Painting, sculpture, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance.... (c.1431–1498)
Jacopo Carucci , usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italy Mannerism painter and portraitist from the Florentine school.... (1494–1556)
Tommaso Redi was an Italian art painter, active during the late-Baroque in his native Florence.He initially apprenticed with the Florentine painter Anton Domenico Gabbiani , and then moved to Rome to work in the Medici Academy in that city, which employed Carlo Maratti and Ciro Ferri as teachers.... (1665–1726)
Salvatore Rosa was an Italy Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romanticism.... (1615–1673)
Andrea del Sarto was an Italy painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early-Mannerism. Though highly regarded by his contemporaries as an artist "senza errori" , he is overshadowed now by equally talented contemporaries like Raphael.... (1486–1530)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo was a Venice Painting and printmaker. He was prolific and worked not only in the Veneto, but also in Germany and Spain, and is considered among the last "Grand manner" fresco painters from the Venice.... (1696–1770)
Tintoretto 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 Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art.... (1518–1594)
File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance.... (1488–1576)
Cosimo Tura , also known as Il Cosm? or Cosm? Tura, was an Italy early-Renaissance painter and considered one of the founders of the School of Ferrara .... (c.1430–1495)
Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing.... (1511–1574)
Paolo Uccello was an Italy painter 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 obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.... (c. 1396–1475)
Domenico Veneziano was an Italy painter of the early Renaissance, active mostly in Perugia and Tuscany.Little is known of his birth, though he is thought to have been born in Venice, hence his last name.... (c.1410–1461)
Paolo Veronese 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.... (1528–1588)
Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italy sculpture, goldsmith and Painting who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence.... (c. 1435–1488)
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.... (1452–1519)
Daniele Ricciarelli , better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italy Mannerism Painting and sculpture.He is best remembered for his association, for better or worse, with the late Michelangelo.... (c. 1509–1566)
