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- Architect, sculptor, pioneer of linear perspective. Known for the dome of Florence Cathedral (1419-1436) and the Foundling Hospital (1419-ca.1445).
- Sculptor. Notable works: Gates of Paradise.
- Sculptor. Apprentice of Lorenzo Ghiberti. Known for realism. Notable works: David, Saint George.
Fra Angelico
1387 － 1455
- Renaissance painter renowned for frescoes and altarpieces. Notable works: Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi.
- Painter. Associated with the Northern Renaissance and the Flemish Primitive style. Regarded as one of the founders of 15th-century Northern European painting. Court painter in the Netherlands. Notable works: The Arnolfini Portrait, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, The Crucifixion: The Last Judgment, and The Annunciation.
- Italian painter. Pioneer of perspective in art. Known for his depictions of war scenes. Associated with the late Gothic style. Notable work: The Battle of San Romano (triptych).
- Early Netherlandish painter known for portraits and religious paintings. Notable works: Pietà, Portrait of a Young Woman, The Braque Family(triptych) and The Crucifixion.
- Painter renowned for frescoes and linear perspective. Notable works: Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, The Holy Trinity, The Pisa Altarpiece.
- Architect, architectural theorist, writer, poet, philosopher, and cryptographer. Notable works: De Pictura (On Painting), De Statua (On Sculpture), and De Re Aedificatoria (On Architecture), the first comprehensive architectural theory treatise of the Renaissance period.
- Painter known for egg tempera and frescoes. Renowned for geometric and linear perspective compositions. Notable works: Duke and Duchess of Urbino (diptych) and On Perspective in Painting.
- Painter and founder of the Venetian school of painting. Known for egg tempera and oil paintings. Notable works: Self-Portrait, Madonna and Child with Saints, and St. Francis in Ecstasy.
- Italian painter known for frescoes, landscapes, and prints. Renowned for his mastery of perspective. Notable works: The Lamentation over the Dead Christ and Saint Sebastian.
- Italian painter, sculptor, and goldsmith. Renowned for his workshop, which nurtured many notable disciples such as Leonardo da Vinci. Notable works: The Baptism of Christ and David.
- Architect renowned for his contributions to Renaissance architecture. Notable works: San Pietro in Montorio, Palazzo Caprini and Christ at the Column.
- Painter influenced by Andrea del Verrocchio, participated in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Known for tondo format painting. Notable works: Primavera, The Birth of Venus, Magnificat Madonna, Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder, Adoration of the Magi.
- Painter. Associated with Early Netherlandish painting. Known for his mysterious and fantastical style. Notable works: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Death and the Miser, and The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.
- The Three Masters of the Renaissance, renowned as a scientist, inventor, painter, and scholar. Apprentice of Verrocchio. Pioneer of chiaroscuro and sfumato techniques. Notable works: Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Saint John the Baptist, and Salvator Mundi.
- Painter. Master of Antwerp. Known for religious paintings and satirical works. Notable pieces include The Money Changer and His Wife, The Ugly Duchess, Salvator Mundi, Madonna and Child with the Lamb, and The Ill-Matched Lovers.
- Painter and architect. Known for his exaggerated and distorted style, associated with the Gothic style. Specialized in altar paintings. Notable work: Isenheim Altarpiece.
- German painter: oil paintings, prints, watercolors; Sculptor; Art theorist. Known for woodcuts, copperplate engravings, and altar paintings. Notable works: Apocalypse, Praying Hands, Hase, Self-Portrait (1500), Knight, Death, and the Devil, Adam and Eve and Four Books on Measurement.
- German painter. Known for oil paintings, woodcuts, coin design. Notable works: The Three Graces and Judith with the Head of Holofernes.
- The Three Masters of the Renaissance, renowned as a sculptor, architect, and painter. Known for his portrayal of muscular figures. Notable works: David, Pietà, The Creation of Adam, sketches of The Libyan Sibyl, the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and the Laurentian Library in Florence.
- Italian painter associated with the Venetian school. Notable works: Self-portrait, Sleeping Venus and The Tempest.
- One of the three giants of the Renaissance, renowned as an Italian painter and architect. Flourished during the High Renaissance, known for harmony, balance, and graceful figures. Apprentice of Perugino. Notable works: The School of Athens, The Sistine Madonna, The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, and Raphael Cartoons.
- Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian (1488 – 1576), was a renowned painter, often described as the “sun amidst small stars.” He emerged from the Venetian school of painting, known for his vibrant use of color and mastery of portraiture, landscape, mythological, and religious subjects. He apprenticed under Giorgione. Notable works: Assumption of the Virgin, Venus of Urbino and Venus with a Mirror.
- Italian painter, founder of the Parmese School. Notable works: Jupiter and Io, Head of Christ, and Assumption of the Virgin (fresco in the dome of Parma Cathedral).
- Italian painter, Mannerism. Notable works: The Deposition from the Cross and Visitation.
- German painter associated with the Northern Renaissance. Known for his realism and portraits. Served as a court painter. Proficient in oil painting and woodcuts. Notable works: “The Ambassadors” and “Portraits of King Henry VIII.”
- Architect renowned for his contributions to classical architecture. Known for his treatise “The Four Books of Architecture” and the Palladian style. Notable works: the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.
- French architect known for his contributions to classical architecture characterized by symmetry, order, and proportion. Renowned for his work on the Louvre Palace in Paris.
- French sculptor. Known for his works in the Louvre Palace, including the Caryatids of the Pavillon de l’Horloge and the bas-reliefs of the Louvre’s eastern facade. Also renowned for the Fountain of Innocents and “The Four Seasons.”
- Painter and printmaker known for his depictions of peasant life. Proficient in oil painting and printmaking. Notable works: The Peasant Wedding, The Hunters in the Snow, and The Tower of Babel.
- Painter and designer of tapestries and stained glass. Renowned for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects. Notable works: Spring, Summer, and The Librarian.
- British architect. Notable works: Queen’s House.