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 BerrecciBartolomeo Berrecci was born in 1480 within the town of Pontassieve, Italy. His first lessons came from his father who practiced architecture himself.
- 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 DalmataIoannes Stephani Duknovich de Tragurio entered the world around 1440 in Vinišće, a small village now part of Marina. His father Stjepan Duknović worked as a…
- 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 entered the world on the 23rd of January 1921 within the bustling streets of Milan. He pursued his education in the art schools located in…
- 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…