Curated category
Italian Renaissance painters
- 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.
- TitianIn 1590, the painter and art theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo called Titian "the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of…
- RaphaelRaphael died on the 6th of April 1520, which was, by some accounts, his 37th birthday. Four cardinals dressed in purple carried his body through Rome.
- Filippino LippiFilippino Lippi was born probably in 1457 at Prato, Tuscany, under circumstances that would have seemed to doom him before he ever picked up a brush.
- Paolo VeronesePaolo Veronese stood before the Venetian Holy Inquisition on the 18th of July 1573 and told his interrogators that painters take the same liberties as poets…
- 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…
- MasaccioMasaccio died in the summer of 1428, twenty-six years old and barely six years into his career as an independent painter.
- Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli was buried, as he had requested, at the foot of a tomb in the Ognissanti Church in Florence. The woman in that tomb was Simonetta Vespucci…
- Italian Renaissance paintingItalian Renaissance painting spans roughly three centuries, from the late 13th century through to around 1600, and it reshaped how the entire Western world…
- Neri di BicciNeri di Bicci kept a diary. Not the private kind, but a meticulous record of every commission that passed through his Florence workshop: the names of…
- QuattrocentoIn the late Middle Ages, money replaced land as the primary measure of wealth across Italy. Urban centers arose in places like Florence and Venice, populated…
- 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,"…
- Andrea MantegnaAndrea Mantegna was born around 1431 in Isola di Carturo, a small settlement near Padua, the son of a carpenter named Biagio.