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Italian male painters

  • Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on the 15th of April 1452 near the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. His father, a notary named Ser Piero, and his mother, a…
  • MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni arrived in the world on the 6th of March 1475 within the small town of Caprese.
  • TitianTiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was born in Pieve di Cadore near Belluno. The exact date of his birth remains uncertain to this day.
  • TintorettoJacopo Robusti was born in Venice during the late months of 1518. His father, Battista, worked as a dyer, a trade that gave Jacopo his nickname Tintoretto…
  • Francesco PrimaticcioFrancesco Primaticcio was born in Bologna on the 30th of April 1504. He began his artistic education under the watchful eye of Giulio Romano in Mantua.
  • RaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in March 1483 or the 6th of April 1483.
  • Filippino LippiFilippino Lippi was born in 1457 at Prato, Tuscany. He entered the world as the illegitimate son of Lucrezia Buti and Fra Filippo Lippi.
  • Niccolò dell'AbbateNiccolò dell'Abbate entered the world in Modena during 1509 or 1512. His father worked as a violinist, placing music at the center of his childhood home.
  • Rosso FiorentinoGiovanni Battista di Jacopo was born on the 8th of March 1495 in Florence. His red hair gave him the nickname Rosso Fiorentino, which means Florentine…
  • Paolo VeroneseThe census records of 1528 list a stonecutter named Gabriele and his wife Caterina as the parents of their fifth child, Paolo.
  • GiottoGiotto di Bondone was born around 1267 in Florence, though some sources suggest a farmhouse in the Mugello region. His father worked as a blacksmith named…
  • Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti was born on the 14th of February 1404 in Genoa. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, was a wealthy Florentine who had been exiled…
  • MasaccioTommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone entered the world on the 21st of December 1401 in Castel San Giovanni di Altura. His father worked as a notary while his…
  • Sandro BotticelliAlessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was born in Florence between 1444 and 1446, though the exact day remains unknown.
  • Neri di BicciNeri di Bicci entered the world in 1419 as the third link in a chain of artistic fathers. His grandfather Lorenzo di Bicci worked alongside Jacopo di Cione…
  • CaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio arrived in Milan on the 29th of September 1571. His father Fermo worked as a household administrator for the local marquess.
  • Jacopo de' BarbariNo one knows the exact year Jacopo de' Barbari was born, but contemporaries described him as a Venetian. Albrecht Dürer called him "van Venedig geporn,"…
  • Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari arrived into the world prematurely on the 30th of July 1511 in Arezzo, Tuscany. His early years were marked by a recommendation from his…
  • CimabueGiovanni Cimabue was born in Florence around 1240 and died there in 1302. He began his career painting within the strict rules of Italo-Byzantine art.
  • Cesare MaccariCesare Maccari entered the world on the 9th of May 1840 within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. His hometown was Siena, a city that would shape his early artistic…
  • Giovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Battista Tiepolo entered the world on the 5th of March 1696 in Venice. He was the youngest of six children born to Domenico and Orsetta Tiepolo.
  • Ambrogio LorenzettiAmbrogio Lorenzetti emerged from the Sienese school of painting around 1317. His early life remains shrouded in mystery, yet his artistic roots trace back to…
  • Andrea MantegnaAndrea Mantegna was born in Isola di Carturo, close to Padua, in the Venetian Republic. He became apprenticed to Paduan painter Francesco Squarcione at the…
  • Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini was born in Florence on the 3rd of November 1500. His father Giovanni worked as a musician and built musical instruments for a living.
  • Giulio ClovioGiulio Clovio was born in 1498 within the village of Grižane, located in the Kingdom of Croatia. His family background remains a point of historical interest…
  • Giambettino CignaroliGiambettino Cignaroli entered the world on the 4th of July 1706, in Verona. He began his artistic education under Santo Prunato and Antonio Balestra.