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Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519) - Italy (Vinci)
Early Renaissance, High Renaissance
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] ( listen) 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy...... |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) - Italy (Caprese Near Arezzo)
High Renaissance, High Renaissance
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (/ˌmaɪkəlˈændʒəloʊ/ Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni] 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Conside...... |
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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino) (1483 - 1520) - Italy (Urbino)
High Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance
Raphael is another of those enigmatic Renaissance painters that only needs a first name to know who one talking about. If Michelangelo or Leonardo is brought up in conversation as if speaking about an old friend, we know that it is the Italian Renaissance Masters that are being spoken about. The same is true of Raphael, who is sometimes given a back seat to the two giants, but is no less of an artist. Whereas Leonardo Da Vinci’s works can be painted in mostly dark tones, Raphael’s are light, bright and airy.... |
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Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528) - Italy (Nuremberg)
Northern Renaissance, High Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer (/ˈdʊərər, ˈdjʊərər/ German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major ...... |
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) - Germany (Aschaffenburg)
Expressionism, High Renaissance, Symbolism, Cubism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was dischar...... |
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Giovanni Bellini (1433 - 1516) - Italy (Venice)
Renaissance, High Renaissance, Early Renaissance
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 26 November 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 (who was more highly regarded than Giovanni during his lifetime, although the reverse is true today), and his brother-in-law was Andrea M...... |
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Lorenzo Lotto (1480 - 1556) - Italy (Venice)
High Renaissance, High Renaissance
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other North Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, his nervous and eccentric posings and...... |
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Vittore Carpaccio (1465 - 1526) - Italy (Venice)
High Renaissance, High Renaissance
Vittore Carpaccio (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtoːre karˈpattʃo] c. 1465 – 1525/1526) was an Italian 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. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed It...... |
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Luca Signorelli (1450 - 1523) - Italy (Cortona)
High Renaissance, Early Renaissance
Luca Signorelli (c. 1450—16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescoes of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece. He was born Luca d'Egidio di Ventura in Cortona, Tuscany (some sources call ...... |
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Antonio Allegri Da Correggio (1489 - 1534) - Italy (Correggio)
High Renaissance, Mannerism
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as Correggio (Italian: [korˈreddʒo]), 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 century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic f...... |
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Bernardino Luini (1480 - 1532) - Italy (Runo)
High Renaissance, High Renaissance
Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly he was described to have taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend". Consequently, many of his works were attributed to Leonardo. He...... |
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Giampietrino (1495 - 1549) - Italy
High Renaissance, High Renaissance
Giampietrino, probably Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli (active 1495–1549), was a north Italian painter of the Lombard school and Leonardo's circle, succinctly characterized by Sidney J. Freedberg as an "exploiter of Leonardo's repertory." Giampietrino was a very productive painter of large altarpieces, Madonnas, holy women in half figure, and mythological ...... |
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Andrea Del Sarto (1486 - 1530) - Italy (Florence)
High Renaissance, High Renaissance
This Holy Family painting was completed by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Sarto and housed in the Pinacoteca of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini) in Rome, Italy. The painting was commissioned in Florence by a Zanobi Strozzi for the chapel at his Villa of Rovezzano. It was cited by Vasari in his biography of Sarto, wh...... |
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