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Quattrocento painters

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…