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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
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (Father: Jacopo Bellini; Brother: Gentile Bellini; Brother-in-law: Andrea Mantegna) was the most influential Venetian painter of the Early Renaissance, credited with transforming the Venetian style from the rigid, linear traditions of the past
Stefan Lochner
Stefan Lochner (Also known as Meister Stefan; little is known of his family, though it is believed he was of Swabian origin) was the most celebrated German painter of the mid-15th century and the undisputed
Fra Bartolomeo
Fra Bartolomeo (also known as Baccio della Porta) Real name and family : Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino (Father: Paolo di Jacopo, a muleteer; He took the religious vows of a Dominican friar in 1500
Baccio Bandinelli
Bartolommeo Bandinelli (Born Bartolommeo Brandini; Father: Michelangelo-di Viviano, a prominent goldsmith) Baccio Bandinelli was a prominent and highly controversial Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter, active primarily in Florence and Rome. He was trained in the
Joachim Patinir
Joachim Patinir (Possibly the uncle of painter Herri met de Bles) (c. 1480–1524) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and a revolutionary figure in Western art history, widely regarded as the first “true” landscape specialist. Before
Hans Holbein the elder
Hans Holbein (Father: Michael Holbein; Brother: Sigmund Holbein; Sons: Hans Holbein the Younger and Ambrosius Holbein, both notable artists) Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460–1524) was a pivotal German painter and draughtsman who stood at
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein (Father: Hans Holbein the Elder, a renowned painter; Mother: Anna Burgkmair; Brother: Ambrosius Holbein; Spouse: Elsbeth Binzenstock) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543) was one of the most accomplished portraitists of the 16th
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier de le Pasture (Father: Henri de le Pasture, a knife manufacturer; Mother: Agnes de Watrelos; Spouse: Elisabeth Goffaert; Children: Cornelius, Margaretha, Pieter, and Jan, who also became a painter) Rogier van der Weyden (c.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (Spouse: Mayken Coecke; Children: Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, both of whom became prominent painters) Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30–1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and
Hieronymus Bosch
Jheronimus van Aken (Grandfather: Jan van Aken; Father: Anthonius van Aken, both painters; Spouse: Aleid van de Meervenne) Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose profoundly imaginative, macabre, and deeply symbolic works
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (Father: Antonio Vasari, a potter; Spouse: Niccolosa Bacci) iorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, best known today as the “father of art history.” While a prolific artist in
Filippo Lippi
Filippo di Tommaso Lippi (Father: Tommaso Lippi, a butcher; Mother: Antonia di Bindo Sernigi; Partner: Lucrezia Buti; Son: Filippino Lippi, also a renowned Renaissance painter) Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469) was an immensely influential Italian
Gentile Bellini
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – 23 February 1507) was an Italian painter of the school of Venice. He came from Venice’s leading family of painters, and at least in the early part of his career was more
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
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (Father: Jacopo Bellini; Brother: Gentile Bellini; Brother-in-law: Andrea Mantegna) was the most influential Venetian painter of the Early Renaissance, credited with transforming the Venetian style from the rigid, linear traditions of the past
Stefan Lochner
Stefan Lochner (Also known as Meister Stefan; little is known of his family, though it is believed he was of Swabian origin) was the most celebrated German painter of the mid-15th century and the undisputed
Fra Bartolomeo
Fra Bartolomeo (also known as Baccio della Porta) Real name and family : Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino (Father: Paolo di Jacopo, a muleteer; He took the religious vows of a Dominican friar in 1500
Baccio Bandinelli
Bartolommeo Bandinelli (Born Bartolommeo Brandini; Father: Michelangelo-di Viviano, a prominent goldsmith) Baccio Bandinelli was a prominent and highly controversial Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter, active primarily in Florence and Rome. He was trained in the
Joachim Patinir
Joachim Patinir (Possibly the uncle of painter Herri met de Bles) (c. 1480–1524) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and a revolutionary figure in Western art history, widely regarded as the first “true” landscape specialist. Before
Hans Holbein the elder
Hans Holbein (Father: Michael Holbein; Brother: Sigmund Holbein; Sons: Hans Holbein the Younger and Ambrosius Holbein, both notable artists) Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460–1524) was a pivotal German painter and draughtsman who stood at
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein (Father: Hans Holbein the Elder, a renowned painter; Mother: Anna Burgkmair; Brother: Ambrosius Holbein; Spouse: Elsbeth Binzenstock) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543) was one of the most accomplished portraitists of the 16th
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier de le Pasture (Father: Henri de le Pasture, a knife manufacturer; Mother: Agnes de Watrelos; Spouse: Elisabeth Goffaert; Children: Cornelius, Margaretha, Pieter, and Jan, who also became a painter) Rogier van der Weyden (c.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (Spouse: Mayken Coecke; Children: Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, both of whom became prominent painters) Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30–1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and
Hieronymus Bosch
Jheronimus van Aken (Grandfather: Jan van Aken; Father: Anthonius van Aken, both painters; Spouse: Aleid van de Meervenne) Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose profoundly imaginative, macabre, and deeply symbolic works
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (Father: Antonio Vasari, a potter; Spouse: Niccolosa Bacci) iorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, best known today as the “father of art history.” While a prolific artist in
Filippo Lippi
Filippo di Tommaso Lippi (Father: Tommaso Lippi, a butcher; Mother: Antonia di Bindo Sernigi; Partner: Lucrezia Buti; Son: Filippino Lippi, also a renowned Renaissance painter) Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469) was an immensely influential Italian
Gentile Bellini
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – 23 February 1507) was an Italian painter of the school of Venice. He came from Venice’s leading family of painters, and at least in the early part of his career was more
