Curated category
Italian male sculptors
- Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci left behind 13,000 pages of notes and drawings, and almost none of it was written the way you would expect.
- MichelangeloMichelangelo carved one of his most famous works, the Pietà, before he turned 30, then sculpted David before the same milestone.
- Bartolommeo BerrecciBartolommeo Berrecci left Florence in 1516 and never came back. He traded the city where he had learned his craft for a kingdom far to the north, drawn by an…
- Arnolfo di CambioArnolfo di Cambio was born around 1240 in Colle Val d'Elsa, a hilltop town in Tuscany, and by the time of his death sometime between 1300 and 1310, he had…
- Giovanni DalmataGiovanni Dalmata carried several names across his lifetime. Croatia called him Ivan Duknović, Italians knew him as Giovanni Duknovich di Traù, and Latin…
- Lorenzo GhibertiLorenzo Ghiberti was a Florentine sculptor who spent most of his working life making two sets of bronze doors for a single building.
- Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti once boasted that he could stand with his feet together and spring clean over a man's head. He claimed he could throw a coin so high…
- DonatelloDonatello, born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi around 1386 in Florence, made a statue so audacious that nothing in the art of his time seemed to predict it.
- Nicola PisanoNicola Pisano signed his pulpit in the Pisa Baptistry in 1260 with the Latin inscription "Nicola Pisanus" - and in doing so, planted a marker at what many…
- Silvio GazzanigaSilvio Gazzaniga worked for a company called the Stabilimento Artistico Bertoni. There, he created the FIFA World Cup Trophy, the trophy raised by a team…
- Cesare MaccariCesare Maccari painted a scene that has shaped how millions of people picture ancient Rome. His 1888 fresco of Cicero denouncing Catiline in the Roman Senate…
- Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini was born in Florence on the 3rd of November 1500, and by the time he died there on the 13th of February 1571, he had killed at least four…