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Jacopo da Pontormo
Jacopo Carucci (Father: Bartolomeo di Jacopo di Martino Carucci; Mother: Alessandra di Pasquale di Zanobi; He remained a bachelor throughout his life.) was a seminal figure of the Italian Renaissance who broke away from the

Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (Parents: Giovanni Cellini, an architect and musician, and Maria Lisabetta di Stefano Granacci) was perhaps the most celebrated and controversial goldsmith, sculptor, and writer of the Italian Renaissance. His life was as dramatic

Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (Father: Filippo Mazzola, a painter; Uncles and guardians: Michele and Pier Ilario Mazzola, also painters) was a brilliantly innovative Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the defining masters of


Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Father: Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, a government official; Mother: Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena; He never married and had no children, leaving his legacy to his nephew,

Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Father: Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a wealthy Florentine legal notary; Mother: Caterina di Meo Lippi, a local peasant woman. He was born out of wedlock and



Jacopo da Pontormo
Jacopo Carucci (Father: Bartolomeo di Jacopo di Martino Carucci; Mother: Alessandra di Pasquale di Zanobi; He remained a bachelor throughout his life.) was a seminal figure of the Italian Renaissance who broke away from the

Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (Parents: Giovanni Cellini, an architect and musician, and Maria Lisabetta di Stefano Granacci) was perhaps the most celebrated and controversial goldsmith, sculptor, and writer of the Italian Renaissance. His life was as dramatic

Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (Father: Filippo Mazzola, a painter; Uncles and guardians: Michele and Pier Ilario Mazzola, also painters) was a brilliantly innovative Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the defining masters of


Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Father: Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, a government official; Mother: Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena; He never married and had no children, leaving his legacy to his nephew,

Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Father: Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a wealthy Florentine legal notary; Mother: Caterina di Meo Lippi, a local peasant woman. He was born out of wedlock and






