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Important Italian Painters Through the Ages

   
Famous Italian Artists Listed Alphabetically

Mariotto Albertinelli (1474 -1515) Italian, FlorentineHigh Renaissance  

Alessandro Allori (1535 - 1607) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist

Sofonisba Anguissola(1532 - 1625) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist

Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455)  Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Alesso Baldovinetti (1427-1499) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Jacopo Bassano (1510-1592) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)  Italian, Rococo

Taddeo di Bartolo (1362-1422) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Lazzaro Bastiani (1430-1512) Italian, VenetianRenaissance

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1477-1548) Italian, Sienese, High Renaissance

Domenico di Pace Beccafumi 1486-1551) Italian, Sienese, Renaissance

Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516) Italian, Venetian, Renaissance

Bernardo Bellotto (1720 - 1780) Italian, Rococo

Pedro Berruguete (1450 - 1504) Spanish Early Renaissance

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Italian, Futurist

Alessandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510) Italian, Florentine, Renaissance

Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1319) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Agnolo Bronzino (1503 - 1571) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist

Domenico Brusasorci (1516-1587) Italian, Veronese, Mannerist

Giulio Campi (1500-1572)  Italian, Venetian, Renaissance

Luca Cambiaso (1527 – 1585)  Italian, Renaissance

analetto (1697 - 1768) Italian, Rococo

Antonio Canova (1757-1822) Italian, Neoclassical

Caravaggio (1573 - 1610) Italian, Baroque

Antonio da Correggio (1489- 1534)   ItalianRenaissance

Jacopo di Cione (1365-1398) Italian, Early Renaissance

Piero di Cosimo 1462-1521) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535) Italian, Ferrara School, High Renaissance

Guidoccio Cozzarelli (1450-1516) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Bernardo Daddi (1290-1348) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Giovanni Rosso Fiorentino (1495 - 1540) Italian, Mannerist

Piero della Francesca (1422-1492) Italian, Renaissance

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Ercole de’Roberti (1450-1496) Italian, Ferrara School, Renaissance

Domenico Di Michelino, (1417 - 1491) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (1403-1483) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Sano di Pietro (1406-1481) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Dosso Dossi (1490 - 1542) Italian, Ferrara School, High Renaissance

Jean Fouquet (1420 - 1481)  French, Early Renaissance

Francesco Francia (1450-1517) ItalianMilanese School, High Renaissance

Piero della Francesca, (1422-1492)  Italian, Renaissance

Garofalo (1481-1559) Italian, Ferrara School, Renaissance,

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio 1483 - 1561) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

Giorgione (1477-1510) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance

Giotto (1267 - 1337) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627) Italian, FlorentineHigh Renaissance

Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1459) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Pietro Lorenzetti (1280-1348) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance

Bernardino Luini (1475-1532) Italian, Milanese School, High Renaissance

Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) Italian, Renaissance

Masaccio (1401 - 1428) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Coppo di Marcovaldo (1225-1274) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Simone Martini (1280-1344) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)  Italian, Renaissance

Lippo Memmi (1285 -1361) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920)  Italian, Expressionist

Andrea Orcagna (1320-1368) Italian, Early Renaissance

Pontormo (1494-1557) Italian, Mannerist

Parmigianino (1503-1540) Italian, Mannerist

Jacopo da Pontormo (1494 - 1557) Italian, Mannerist

Giovanni di Paolo (1399-1482) Italian, Sienese, Renaissance

Pietro Perugino (1445-1524) Italian, Umbrian SchoolEarly Renaissance

Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1537) Italian, High Renaissance

Sano di Pietro (1406-1481) ItalianRenaissance

Marcantonio Raimondi (1475-1534) Italian, High Renaissance

Raphael, (1483-1520) Italian, High Renaissance

Giulio Rosati (1858-1917) Italian, Academic Classicists

Sassetta (1394-1450) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance

Sodoma (1477-1548) Italian, Sienese, High Renaissance

Tintoretto (1518 - 1594) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance

Titian (1477 - 1576) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance

Francesco Traini (1321 - 1365) Italian, Byzantine, Illuminator

Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) Italian, Florentine, Mannerist 

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) Italian, Mannerist

Paolo Veneziano (1333-1360) Italian, Venetian, Early Renaissance  

Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance  
 

The Renaissance - Transformations in Society

The newly emerging painting techniques and styles were a reflection of the transformation that was taking place in Europe, the change from the medieval period to a more enlightened, tolerant society. Artists of the Renaissance were elevated in social standing and their art was no longer looked upon as simple handicrafts, but as divinely inspired creations. The spirit of an era awoke, revitalized with knowledge and creativity. The major painters of the Renaissance were not only artists but men of great genius who gave the world their great intellectual gifts. Florentine and Venetian painting were both formed by extraordinary personalities. These men tackled mathematical, artistic and philosophical problems of the highest interest, and presented solutions that have never lost their value. Leonardo da Vinci asserted "In dealing with a scientific problem, I first arrange several experiments, and then show with reasons why such an experiment must necessarily operate in this and in no other way. This is the method which must be followed in all research upon the phenomenon of nature. We must consult experience in the variety of cases and circumstances until we can draw from them a general rule that is contained in them. And for what purposes are these rules good? They lead us to further investigations of nature and to creations of art. They prevent us from deceiving ourselves and others by promising results which are not obtainable."

Key Descriptive Words  and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world,  publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists,  sfumato, chiaroscuro, Savonarola, spiritually significant,  illuminated manuscript,  idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, illuminator,  Age of Discovery, axonometric drawing, curiosity about the natural world,  realistic use of colours and  light,  Bonfire of the Vanities, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, Gospel parables, The Blackdeath, romanticized landscapes,  Christian symbolism.

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