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23 February 2026
Arnaldo Pomodoro (Brother: Gio Pomodoro, also a famous sculptor)
Arnaldo Pomodoro is one of the most prominent contemporary Italian sculptors, renowned...
10 March 2026
Umberto Boccioni (Parents: Raffaele Boccioni, a minor government official, and Cecilia Forlani)
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was a brilliant and highly...
17 February 2026
Francesco Castelli (Father: Giovanni Domenico Castelli, a stonemason; Mother: Anastasia Garovo)
Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) was one of the defining...
13 August 2021
Tintoretto (1518–1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and arguably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. Born Jacopo...
17 December 2021
Francesco Queirolo (1704–1762) was a masterful Italian sculptor of the 18th century, renowned for his technical virtuosity and his ability to carve marble...
23 January 2023
Filippo di Tommaso Lippi (Father: Tommaso Lippi, a butcher; Mother: Antonia di Bindo Sernigi; Partner: Lucrezia Buti; Son: Filippino Lippi, also a renowned...
08 August 2021
Giotto di Bondone ( c. 1267[a] – January 8, 1337),[2][3] known mononymously as Giotto [6] and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during...
21 April 2026
The Byzantine Empire: The Golden Realm of Faith and Art
When the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century CE, its eastern half not...
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Giotto di Bondone ( c. 1267[a] – January 8, 1337),[2][3] known mononymously as Giotto [6] and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period.[7] Giotto’s contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was “the most sovereign master of painting …
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445[1] – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (/ˌboʊtiˈtʃɛli/, Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli’s posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by …
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Father: Domenico Tiepolo; Mother: Orsetta; Spouse: Maria Cecilia Guardi; Notable children: Painters Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo) Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo (1696–1770) was the last great master of the …
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as Caravaggio 29 September 1571[2] – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples, Malta, …
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (pronounced [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/90[1] – 27 August 1576),[2] known in English as Titian (/ˈtɪʃən/ TISH-ən), was a Venetian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.[3] During his lifetime he was often …
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520),known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal …
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known simply as Michelangelo (English: /ˌmaɪkəlˈændʒəloʊ, ˌmɪk-/[1]), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an …
Leonardo da Vinci[b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect.[3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he …