Curated playlist
Italian male sculptors
- Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci wrote most of his notes in mirror-image cursive, right to left.
- MichelangeloMichelangelo said he lived like a poor man, yet he was worth about 50,000 gold ducats.
- Bartolommeo BerrecciBartolommeo Berrecci left Florence in 1516 to rebuild a burned royal castle in Kraków. He never returned to Italy.
- Arnolfo di CambioArnolfo di Cambio designed the sixth city wall around Florence. It was begun in 1284 and finished in 1333.
- Giovanni DalmataA stonemason's son from Dalmatia became one of Rome's leading sculptors. Giovanni Dalmata also worked in Hungary.
- Lorenzo GhibertiMichelangelo named the second set of Lorenzo Ghiberti's bronze doors the Gates of Paradise.
- Leon Battista AlbertiAt twenty, Leon Battista Alberti wrote a comedy that fooled a famous printer.
- DonatelloDonatello kept a bucket of money hanging from his workshop ceiling. Anyone nearby could take what they needed.
- Nicola PisanoNicola Pisano signed his Pisa Baptistry pulpit in 1260. Surveys of Renaissance art often start their story there.
- Silvio GazzanigaSilvio Gazzaniga began sculpting the World Cup trophy before FIFA had agreed to anything.
- Cesare MaccariA famous fresco of Cicero in the Roman Senate gets the setting wrong. Cesare Maccari painted it in 1888.
- Benvenuto CelliniA thief climbed scaffolding in Vienna in 2003 and stole Benvenuto Cellini's gold salt cellar.