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Niccolò dell'Abbate Niccolò dell'Abbate, sometimes Nicolò and Abate (1509 or 15121571) was a Mannerist Italian painter in fresco and oils. He was of the Emilian school, and was part of the team of artists called the School of Fontainebleau that introduced the I ...

(1509/12–1571) *

Giuseppe Abbati Giuseppe Abbati (January 13, 1836February 21, 1868) was an Italian painter who belonged to the group known as the Macchiaioli. Biography Abbati was born in Naples. He received early training in painting from his father Vincenzo, who specialized ...

(1836–1868) *

Angiolo Achini Angiolo Achini (March 6, 1850 – January 16, 1930) was an Italian painter. Biography Angiolo Achini was born in Milan. He was educated at the Brera Academy, where he studied under Giuseppe Bertini.Agnellini, Maurizio (1998). ''Ottocento italia ...

(1850–1930) *

Pietro Adami Pietro Adami was an Italian painter of coastal and marine views or vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The pa ...

(c. 1730) *

Livio Agresti Livio Agresti (1508–1580), also called Ritius or Ricciutello, was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period, active both in his native city of Forlì and in Rome, where he died. He was one of the members of the " Forlì p ...

(1508–1580) *

Giorgio Matteo Aicardi Giorgio Matteo Aicardi (18 September 1891 – 30 December 1984) was an Italian painter, who also specialised in drawings, frescos, restorations and illustrations. He trained at the "Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti" Genoa Italy, and was part o ...

(1891–1985) *

Francesco Albani Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active in Bologna (1591–1600), Rome (1600–1609), Bologna (1609), Viterbo (1609–1610), Bologna (1610), Rome (1610–1617), ...

(1578–1660) *

Giacomo Alberelli Giacomo Alberelli or Albarelli was an Italian painter, active mainly in Venice in the years 1600–1650. Life Alberelli was a pupil and assistant of Jacopo Palma the Younger with whom he worked for 34 years. He painted historical subjects, incl ...

(1600–1650) * Mariotto Albertinelli (1474–1515) *

Ambrogio Antonio Alciati Antonio Ambrogio Alciati (1878 – 8 March 1929) was an Italian painter mainly in Northern Italy. Biography He was born in Vercelli, in the Piedmont. Initially studying at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Vercelli, in 1889, he moved to Milan, whe ...

(1878–1929) *

Domenico Alfani Domenico Alfani di Paride () was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active chiefly in his native Perugia. Life He was born at Perugia in 1483. He was a contemporary of Raphael, with whom he studied in the school of Pietro Perugino. ...

(1479/1480–c. 1553) *

Girolamo Alibrandi Girolamo Alibrandi (1470-1524), was an Italian painter, born and active in Sicily, called the '' Raphael of Messina'' (''il Raffaello di Messina''). Biography Alibrandi received his first instruction in the school of the Antonj. The fame which An ...

(1470–1524) *

Silvio Allason Silvio Allason (1845–1912) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, seascapes, and moonlit nocturnes. He was a resident in Turin. He first trained with his elder cousin, Ernesto Allason Ernesto Allason (Turin, 1822 – March 1, 1868) was ...

(1845–1912) *

Alessandro Allori Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Biography In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and train ...

(1535–1607) *

Cristofano Allori Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, painting mostly portraits and religious subjects. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his ...

(1577–1621) *

Marco Almaviva Marco Almaviva (born January 23, 1934) is an Italian painter. Almaviva was born in Novi Ligure (Province of Alessandria, Italy). His father, Armando Vassallo, a leading sculptor of the 20th-century style, the first teacher and close friend of Fr ...

(born 1934) *

Altichiero Altichiero da Verona (c. 1330 – c. 1390), also called Aldighieri da Zevio, was an Italian painter of the Gothic style. A follower of Giotto, Altichiero is credited with founding the Veronese school. He worked in Verona and Padua—works by ...

(1330–1390) *

Jaber Alwan Jaber Alwan (born 1948 in Babylon, Iraq) is an Italian artist and painter of Iraqi descent. Biography Born in Babylon, Iraq, in 1948, Alwan graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad in 1970. In 1972 he arrived in Rome and started paint ...

(born 1948) *

Jacopo Amigoni Jacopo Amigoni (ca. 1685 – September 1752), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portrai ...

(1682–1752) * Giuseppe Amisani (1881–1941) * Andrea da Murano (active 1463–1502) * Andrea di Bartolo (1360/70–1428) *

Fra Angelico Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; February 18, 1455) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his '' Lives of the Artists'' as having "a rare and perfect talent".Giorgio Vasari, ''Lives of the Artists''. Pengu ...

(1387–1455) *

Sofonisba Anguissola Sofonisba Anguissola ( – 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a well-rounded education that i ...

(1532–1625) *

Pietro Annigoni Pietro Annigoni, OMRI (7 June 1910 – 28 October 1988) was an Italian artist, portrait painter, fresco painter and medallist, best known for his painted portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. His work was in the Renaissance tradition, contrasting ...

(1910–1988) *

Andrea Ansaldo Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo (1584 – August 18, 1638) was an Italian painter active mainly in Genoa. Life Ansaldo was born in Voltri, now part of the '' comune'' of Genoa, the son of a merchant. He trained under Orazio Cambiasi and possibly coll ...

(1584–1638) * Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1492–c. 1554) *

Antonello da Messina Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina ( 1430February 1479), was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Early Italian Renaissance. ...

(1430–1479) * Antonello de Saliba (1466–1535) *

Antoniazzo Romano Antoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili (c. 1430 – c. 1510) was an Italian Early Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the latter part of the 15th century. He "made a speciality of re ...

(1430–1510) *

Andrea Appiani Andrea Appiani (31 May 17548 November 1817) was an Italian Neoclassicism, neoclassical painter. Life Born in Milan, it had been intended that he follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Car ...

(1754–1817) *

Alessandro Araldi Alessandro Araldi (c. 1460 – c. 1529) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma. Little is known of his biography. He apparently assisted with contemporary Cristoforo Caselli (il Temperello). His work shows the in ...

(c. 1460–c. 1529) *

Giuseppe Arcimboldo Giuseppe Arcimboldo (; also spelled ''Arcimboldi'') (1526 or 1527 – 11 July 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books. These wo ...

(1527–1593) *

Pellegrino Aretusi Pellegrino Aretusi (ca. 1460–1523), also known as Pellegrini de Modena and as Pellegrino Munari, was an Italian painter who was born in Modena, Italy Modena (, , ; egl, label= Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ...

(c. 1460–1523) *

Mino Argento Mino Argento (born January 5, 1927) is an Italian painter, mainly depicting abstract themes on canvas and paper. Life and work Mino Argento was born in Rome, Italy. He began as an architect, and first exhibited paintings at a 1968 exhibition at ...

(born 1927) *

Amico Aspertini Amico Aspertini, also called Amerigo Aspertini, was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor whose complex, eccentric, and eclectic style anticipates Mannerism. He is considered one of the leading exponents of the Bolognese School of paintin ...

(c. 1474–1552) *

Gioacchino Assereto Gioacchino Assereto (1600 – 28 June 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century. Life He initially apprenticed at age 12 with Luci ...

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Francesco Bacchiacca Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called Bachiacca (say “bah ki ah ka”). He is also known as Francesco Ubertini, il Bacchiacca (1494–1557). He was an Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist sty ...

(1494–1557) *Baciccio ( Giovan Battista Gaulli) (1639–1709) *

Sisto Badalocchio Sisto Badalocchio Rosa (28 June 1585 – ) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School. Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome. He worked with Annibale till 1609, the ...

(1585–c. 1647] *

Giuseppe Badaracco Giuseppe Badaracco (1588–1657), also called “Il Sordo” (the Deaf), was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa, in Liguria and in the island of Corsica. Born in Genoa into well-to-do family, he first studied cla ...

(1588–1647) *

Antonio Badile Antonio Badile (c. 1518 – 1560) was an Italian painter from Verona. Biography He was the grandson of the Veronese 15th-century painter Giovanni Badile. He trained with his uncle Francesco Badile (died 1544). He was the first master of Paolo V ...

(c. 1518–1560) *

Alesso Baldovinetti Alesso or Alessio Baldovinetti (14 October 1427 – 29 August 1499) was an Italian early Renaissance painter and draftsman. Biography Baldovinetti was born in Florence to a rich noble family of merchants. In 1448 he was registered as a member of ...

(1425–1499) *

Camillo Ballini Camillo Ballini (Brescia 1540– c.1592) was an Italian painter of the late- Renaissance or Mannerist period. He trained with Palma il Giovane in Venice, and was employed with him in the decoration of the Ducal Palace Several palaces are named D ...

(1540–c. 1592) *

Cristiano Banti Cristiano Banti (4 January 1824 – 4 December 1904) was an Italian genre and landscape painter. He was a leading figure in the Macchiaioli movement of Tuscany. Biography Banti was born into a middle-class family in Santa Croce sull'Arno. A sc ...

(1824–1904) * Jacopo de' Barbari (1460/70–1516) * Mario Bardi (1922–1998) *

Barna da Siena Barna da Siena, also known as Berna di Siena, was presumed to be a Sienese painter active from about 1330 to 1350. The painter was first referred to by Lorenzo Ghiberti in his ''I Commentarii'' (mid 15th century) as a Sienese painter who pain ...

(fl. c. 1340) *

Barnaba da Modena Barnaba da Modena (c. 1328-c.1386) was a mid-14th-century Italian painter who painted in the style of Byzantine art.Raimond Van Marle, ''The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting'', Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, p. 382-383 He ...

(1328–1386) *

Federico Barocci Federico Barocci (also written ''Barozzi'')(c. 1535 in Urbino – 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and inf ...

(1526–1612) *

Bartolo di Fredi Bartolo di Fredi (c. 1330 – 26 January 1410), also called Bartolo Battiloro, was an Italian painter, born in Siena, classified as a member of the Sienese School. Biography He had a large studio and was one of the most influential painters wor ...

(1330–1410) *

Fra Bartolomeo Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo (, , ; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di S. Marco, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects ...

(1472–1517) * Bartolomeo Veneto (fl. 1502–46) *

Marco Basaiti Marco Basaiti (c. 1470–1530) was a Renaissance painter who worked mainly in Venice and was a contemporary of Giovanni Bellini and Cima da Conegliano.

(1470–1530) *

Marco Antonio Bassetti Marco Antonio Bassetti (1586–1630) was an Italian painter. Life He was born in Verona, and was a pupil of Felice Ricci. He then went to Venice where he was particularly influenced by the works of Tintoretto, Veronese and Jacopo Bassano. He i ...

(1586–1630) *

Cesare Bassano Cesare Bassano (1584–1648) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Milan. He engraved: *Portrait' of Gaspare Aselli *''A Funeral Frontispiece of Francesco Piccolomini '' *''Nativity''. References * *Mark McDonald, 'Cesare Bass ...

(1584–1648) *

Francesco da Ponte Francesco da Ponte the Elder, or Francesco Bassano the Elder (c. 1475–1539) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance Venetian School. He was born at Vicenza. After training in Venice he established himself at Bassano. If not an actual ...

the 1st Bassano (c. 1475–1530) * Francesco Bassano the Younger (1549–1592) *

Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco t ...

(1510–1592) *

Leandro Bassano Leandro Bassano (10 June 1557 – 15 April 1622), also called Leandro dal Ponte, was an Italian artist from Bassano del Grappa who was awarded a knighthood by the Doge of Venice. He was the younger brother of artist Francesco Bassano the Younge ...

(1557–1622) * Lazzaro Bastiani (1429–1512) *

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

(1708–1787) * Domenico Beccafumi (1486–1551) * Gentile Bellini (1429–1507) *

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his fath ...

(1430–1516) *

Jacopo Bellini Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400 – c. 1470) was one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy. His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous painters. Few of Belli ...

(1400–1470) *

Luigi Benfatto Luigi Benfatto known as Alvise dal Friso (1551–1611) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born at Verona, was the nephew and pupil of Paolo Veronese. He painted Glory of the saint for the church of St. Nicholas and pic ...

(1551–1611) *

Ambrogio Bergognone Ambrogio Borgognone (variously known as ''Ambrogio da Fossano'', ''Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano'', ''Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano'' or as ''il Bergognone'' or ''Ambrogio Egogni''

(1453–1523) *

Bonaventura Berlinghieri Bonaventura Berlinghieri ( fl. 1228–1274) was an Italian painter from Lucca, Italy, of the Gothic period. He was son of painter Berlinghiero Berlinghieri and brother of Barone and Marco Berlinghieri. Bonaventura painted several panels and wa ...

(1210–1287) *

Berlinghiero Berlinghieri Berlinghiero also known as Berlinghiero Berlinghieri or Berlinghiero of Lucca ( fl. 1228 – between 1236 and 1242), was an Italian painter in the Italo-Byzantine style of the early thirteenth century. He was the father of the painters Baron ...

(1175–1236) *

Giuseppe Bertini Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898) was an Italian painter, active in his native Milan. Biography He studied at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi, and in 1845 was awarded the ''Gran premio di pittura dell'Accademia di Brer ...

(1825–1898) * Francesco Bianchi (1447–1510) *

Francesco Galli Bibiena Francesco Galli, called Francesco da Bibiena (or da Bibbiena), a member of the theatrical Galli da Bibiena family and younger brother of Ferdinando Galli, was born at Bologna in 1659. He first studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli Lorenzo Pasinelli ...

(1659–1739) *

Francesco Bissolo Francesco Bissolo (1470-72 - 20 April 1554) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance. He is also known as Pier Francesco Bissolo. ''Santa Giustina'' in Treviso Cathedral He is described as a pupil of Giovanni Bellini. He painted a ''Chri ...

(1470/72–1554) *

Giovanni Battista Bissoni ''The mission of the Apostles '' Abbey of Santa Giustina Giovanni Battista Bissoni (1576–1636) was an Italian painter. He was born in Padua. He was first a pupil of Francesco Apollodoro, called ''Il Porcia'', a portrait painter, and afterward ...

(1576–1636) *

Boccaccio Boccaccino Boccaccio Boccaccino (c. 1467 – c. 1525) was a painter of the early Italian Renaissance, belonging to the Emilian school. He is profiled in Vasari's ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'' (or, in English, '' ...

(c. 1467–c. 1525) * Giovanni Boccati (1420–after 1480) * Giovanni Boccardi (?–1542) * Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) *

Giovanni Boldini Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in ''Time'' magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" becaus ...

(1842–1931) *

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (or Beltraffio) (1466 or 1467 – 1516) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci. Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini are the strongest artistic person ...

(1467–1516) *

Benedetto Bonfigli Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420 – July 8, 1496) was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Perugia, and part of the Umbria school of painters including Raphael and Perugino. He is also known as ''Buonf ...

(c. 1420–1496) *

Bonifacio Veronese Bonifacio Veronese, birth name: Bonifacio de' PitatiAlso known as Bonifazio Veneziano (1487 – 19 October 1553) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was active in the Venetian Republic. His work had an important influence on the younger g ...

(Bonifacio de' Pitati) (1487–1553) *

Giovanni Bonini Giovanni Bonini or Giovani Bonini of Assisi (fl. 1321) was an Italian painter and mosaicist of the 14th century; born in Assisi, and working in the sculptures and windows of the Cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the ''cathedr ...

(fl. 1320) *

Bono da Ferrara Bono da Ferrara or Bono Ferrarese (active 1441–1461) was an Italian painter of the early- Renaissance period.: The National Gallery London painting of ''St Jerome in Landscape''. Biography He seems to have been the pupil of both Pisano and Sq ...

(?–1461) *

Francesco Bonsignori Francesco Bonsignori (c. 1455 – July 2, 1519), also known as Francesco Monsignori, was an Italian painter and draughtsman, characterized by his excellence in religious subjects, portraits, architectural perspective and animals. He was born in ...

(c. 1455–1519) *

Paris Bordone Paris Bordone (Paris Paschalinus Bordone; 5 July 1500 – 19 January 1571) was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor. Biography Bord ...

(1500–1571) *

Guido Borelli Guido Borelli da Caluso is an Italian Painting, painter. He was born in Caluso in 1952. He comes from an artistic background, and his family always encouraged him to develop his talent, as early as childhood. He won a contest at 13 and held his f ...

(born 1952) *

Odoardo Borrani Odoardo Borrani (22 August 1833 – 14 September 1905) was an Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli group. Biography He was born in Pisa. The Borrani family moved to Florence, where Odoardo enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1853 ...

(1833–1905) *

Giuseppe Borsato Giuseppe Borsato (14 February 1771 in Venice – 15 October 1849 in Venice) was an Italian painter, primarily of vedute. Known for his work as the architect, decorator, and painter to the French Imperial Court in Venice. Life and works From ...

(1771–1849) *

Andrea Boscoli Andrea Boscoli (c. 1560 – c. 1606) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Florence, where he trained under Santi di Tito. He painted a ''Sermon of St John the Baptist'' for the church of San Giovanni Battista belonging to th ...

(c. 1560–c. 1606) * Erma Bossi (1875-1952) *

Carlo Bossoli Carlo Bossoli (6 December 1815, in Lugano – 1 August 1884, in Turin) was a Swiss-born Italian painter and lithographer, who spent his early career in Russia. He is best known for historical scenes from the Risorgimento. Biography His ...

(1815–1884) *

Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (, ), was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th cent ...

(c. 1445–1510) * Francesco Botticini (1446–1498) * Raffaello Botticini (1474–1520) *

Donato Bramante Donato Bramante ( , , ; 1444 – 11 April 1514), born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, was an Italian architect and painter. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance styl ...

(1444–1514) *

Bramantino Bartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino ( – ), was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan. Biography He was born in Milan, the son of Alberto Suardi, but his biography remains unclear, and was long complicated ...

(Bartolomeo Suardi) (c. 1455–c. 1536) *

Agnolo Bronzino Agnolo di Cosimo (; 17 November 150323 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino ( it, Il Bronzino ) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, ''Bronzino'', may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddis ...

(1503–1572) * Nicolao Branceleon (c. 1460–c. 1526) * Buonamico Buffalmacco (1290–1340) * Giuliano Bugiardini (1476–1555) * Niccolò di Buonaccorso (?–1388) * Bernardino Butinone (1450–1510) *

Ludovico Buti Ludovico Buti (c. 1560 - after 1611) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Florence. Belonging to the late-Mannerist period, he worked along with more famous figures as Alessandro Allori, Bernardino Poccetti or Santi di Tito on large projec ...

(c. 1560–1611)

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Vincenzo Cabianca Vincenzo Cabianca (June 21, 1827, Verona – March 21, 1902, Rome) was an Italian painter of the Macchiaioli group. Biography He was born in Verona in modest circumstances. He began his artistic training at the Verona Academy under Giovanni Cali ...

(1827–1902) * Guglielmo Caccia "il Moncalvo" (1568–1625) *

Vicenzo Caccianemici Vicenzo Caccianemici (active 1530) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Bologna, and trained under Parmigianino. Vasari mentions a picture by this artist in the chapel of the family of Elefantuzzi in San Petronio Basili ...

(fl. 1530) *

Giovanni Cadioli Giovanni Cadioli (c. 1710 – 10 September 1767) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in his native Mantua. He was also an author of a guide to artworks in this city. Biography He was a pupil of Giovanni Canti, along with Gius ...

(c. 1710–1767) *

Giuseppe Calcia Giuseppe Calcia (active 1725) (also called Il Genovesino) was an Italian painter, born in the Piedmont. He should not be confused with the Milanese painter Marco Genovesini. Giuseppe painted altar-pieces for the churches of Turin and Alessandri ...

(fl. 1725) *

Bartolommeo Calomato Bartolommeo Calomato (17th century) was an Italian painter active in Venice. He was remarkable for his small genre pictures representing scenes from town and country life, enlivened with figures. References * 17th-century Italian painters I ...

(17th century) *

Pietro Calzetta Pietro Calzetta ( fl. 1470–1500) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was son-in-law of Montagnana and a pupil of Squarcione. He painted in the chapel of Corpus Christi at the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. In 1470 he restored some ...

(fl. 1470–1500) *

Luca Cambiasi Luca Cambiaso (also known as Luca Cambiasi and Luca Cangiagio (being ''Cangiaxo'' the surname in Ligurian); 18 November 1527 – 6 September 1585) was an Italian painter and draughtsman and the leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century. He i ...

(1527–1585) *

Michele Cammarano Michele Cammarano (23 February 1835, Naples - 15 September 1920, Naples) was an Italian painter who was best known for his battle scenes, although he worked with a wide variety of subjects. Biography His grandfather was Giuseppe Cammarano, a ...

(1835–1920) *

Bartolomeo da Camogli Bartolommeo Camulio was an Italian painter, active in Genoa in the early to mid-14th century. He painted a ''Madonna of the Humility'' (1340) in the Palermo Gallery. Also known as ''Bartolomeo da Camogli'' or ''Bartolomeo Pellerano da Camogli''. ...

(14th century) *

Agostino Campanella Agostino Campanella (active 1770) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Florence. He engraved several prints representing historical and biblical subjects. References 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Ital ...

(fl. 1770) *

Galeazzo Campi Galeazzo Campi (1475/1477 – 1536) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance from Cremona in Lombardy. He was a pupil of Boccaccio Boccaccini. His representation was rather rigid, but careful. His landscapes show influences of Perugino and ...

(1475/1477–1536) *

Vincenzo Campi Vincenzo Campi (; c.1530/1535–1591) was a 16th-century Italian painter working in Cremona during the Late Renaissance. Campi is best known as one of the first northern Italian artists to work in the Flemish style of realist genre painting. Ea ...

(1536–1591) *

Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of city views or ...

(1697–1768) *

Bartolomeo Caporali Bartolomeo (di Segnolo) Caporali (Perugia, c. 1420 – Perugia, c. 1503–1505) was an Italian painter and miniaturist in Perugia, Umbria during the early Renaissance period. His style was influenced by Umbrian artists Gozzoli and Boccati, two ...

(c. 1420–c. 1503/1505) * Aliprando Caprioli (fl. 1575–1599) *

Domenico Caprioli Domenico Caprioli (1494–1528) was an Italian painter born at Treviso in 1494. He produced portraits in the style of Giorgione. Life Caprioli was the son-in-law and pupil of Pier Maria Pennacchi and arose to prominence in the early 16th Century ...

(1494–1528) * Antonio Capulongo (16th century) *

Cecco del Caravaggio Cecco del Caravaggio (active – mid-1620s), is the notname given to a painter who worked in Rome in the early decades of the 17th century and was an important early follower of Caravaggio (1571–1610). In the past art historians have suggest ...

(fl. c.1620) *

Marco Cardisco Marco Cardisco, also known as Marco Calabrese, (Born in Tiriolo c.1486 – c.1542) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples during 1508–1542. Biography He was a pupil of the painter and decorator Polidoro da Ca ...

(c.1486–c.1542) *

Bartolomeo Carducci Bartolomeo Carducci (156014 November 1608) was an Italian painter, better known as Carducho, the Spanish corruption of his Italian patronymic. Biography He was born in Florence, where he studied architecture and sculpture under Bartolomeo ...

(1560–1608) *

Luca Carlevarijs Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice. He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (''vedute'') of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artis ...

(1663–1730) *

Giulio Carmignani Giulio Carmignani (14 September 1813 – 16 January 1890) was an Italian landscape painter and litterateur. Biography He was born in Parma. His father was a typographer and he continued the family tradition, working for twenty-three years as the ...

(1813–1890) *

Fra Simone da Carnuli Fra Simone da Carnuli (born 15th century) was a ( Genoese) painter. He was a Franciscan friar of Genoa. He painted several pictures for his convent, two of which are dated 1519, representing the ''Last Supper'' and ''Preaching of St. Anthony''. ...

(fl. 1519) *

Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of ...

(1557–1602) *

Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of t ...

(1560–1609) * Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619) *

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of h ...

(1573–1610) *

Fernando Carcupino Fernando Carcupino (23 July 1922 – 22 March 2003) was an Italian painter, illustrator and comics artist. He was most widely known for his female nudes, but he also painted landscapes, still lifes, historical subjects, and portraits of mothers ...

(1922–2003) *

Andrea Carlone Andrea Carlone (16 May 1626 – 4 April 1697) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was the son of the painter Giovanni Battista Carlone and Niccoletta Scorza. He traveled and painted extensiv ...

(1626–1697) *

Giovanni Battista Carlone Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603–1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. Biography Carlone was born and died in Genoa. He came from a family of artists: his father Taddeo, uncle, and cousins were sculptors, ...

(1603–1684) *

Giovanni Bernardo Carlone Giovanni Bernardo Carlone (1590–1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was born in Genoa. He was the son of Taddeo Carlone, a sculptor and historical painter, who placed him under the tuition of Pietro ...

(1590–1630) * Domenico Carnovale (fl. 1564) *

Carpaccio Carpaccio (, , ) is a dish of meat or fish (such as beef, veal, venison, salmon or tuna), thinly sliced or pounded thin, and served raw, typically as an appetizer. It was invented in 1963 by Giuseppe Cipriani from Harry's Bar in Venice, Ital ...

(c. 1460–c. 1525) * Domenico Carpinoni (1566–1658) *

Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in eight ...

(1675–1757) *

Felice Casorati Felice Casorati (December 4, 1883 – March 1, 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusua ...

(1883–1963) *

Stefano Cassiani Padre Stefano Cassiani (9 March 1636 - 15 February 1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. Biography He was also called Il Certosino (the Carthusian) by virtue of being a monk of that order. He was born ''Baldassare Cassiani'' (al seculo) in ...

(1636–1714) *

Andrea del Castagno Andrea del Castagno () or Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla (; – 19 August 1457) was an Italian painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone. His works include frescoes in Sant'Apollonia in Florence and the pain ...

(1421–1457) *

Raffaelle Castellini Raffaelle Castellini (1791–1874)https://www.consiglio.marche.it/informazione_e_comunicazione/pubblicazioni/quaderni/pdf/128.pdf, p. 110 was an Italian artist, who was the director of the Mosaic School at the Vatican, and executed the splendid mo ...

(d. 1864) *

Fabrizio Castello Fabrizio Castello (1562–1617) was an Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain. He was a fresco painter who specialized in ornamental painting grotesques. Early life Fabrizio is also listed as being nicknamed ''il Figonetto''. ...

(c.1486–c.1542) *

Vincenzo Catena Vincenzo Catena (c. 1480–1531) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance Venetian school. He is also known as Vincenzo de Biagio. Life Nothing is known of the date and place of Catena's birth. The earliest known record of him is in an inscr ...

(1470–1531) * Pasquale Cati (1550–1620) * Paoluccio Cattamara (fl. 1718) * Giovanni Paolo Cavagna (c. 1550–1627) *

Bernardo Cavallino Bernardo Cavallino (1616–1656) was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He is regarded as one of the most original painters active in Naples during the first half of the 17th century.Ann Percy. "Cavallino, Bernardo." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art ...

(1616–1656) *

Giacomo Cavedone Giacomo Cavedone (also called ''Giacomo Cavedoni'') (1577–1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Life He belonged to the generation of Carracci-inspired or trained painters that included Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Mastell ...

(1577–1660) *

Paolo Caylina the Younger Paolo Caylina the Younger was a 16th-century Italian people, Italian painter active mainly in Brescia in a Renaissance art, Renaissance style. Biography He was the nephew of both Vincenzo Foppa and Paolo Caylina the Elder, and son of Bartolomeo Ca ...

(16th century) *

Rodolfo Ceccotti Rodolfo Ceccotti (born 8 February 1945 in Florence, Italy) is an Italian painter and printmaker. After teaching in Carrara, he became a lecturer in Printmaking Techniques at the Fine Art Academy in Florence. Since 1996, he has also been Direct ...

(born 1945) *

Adriano Cecioni Adriano Cecioni (July 26, 1836May 23, 1886) was an Italian artist, caricaturist, and critic associated with the Macchiaioli group. Biography He was born in Florence into a middle-class family belonging to the local gentry. He began his artisti ...

(1836–1886) *

Quinto Cenni Quinto Cenni (20 March 1845 – 13 August 1917) was an Italian People, Italian painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator who specialized in depicting military personnel and their uniforms. Biography He was born in Imola in the Papal States ...

(1845–1917) *

Giulia Centurelli Giulia Centurelli (31 October 1832, in Ascoli Piceno – 24 January 1872, in Rome) was an Italian painter and poet. Life Giulia Centurelli was born on 31 October 1832 in Ascoli Piceno. She studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in the Piceno ca ...

(1832–1872) *

Giacomo Ceruti Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (October 13, 1698 – August 28, 1767) was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto (the little beggar) for his many painti ...

(1698–1767) *

Giovanni Maria Cerva Giovanni Maria Cerva was a 17th-century Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renais ...

(17th century) *

Tito Chelazzi Tito Chelazzi (1 March 1834, San Casciano in Val di Pesa - 12 April 1892, Florence) was an Italian still-life painter and war hero. Biography His parents were the heirs of a wealthy family from Siena. At first, he planned to become a doctor, b ...

(1834–1892) *

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly infl ...

(1888–1978) *

Michele Ciampanti Michele Ciampanti (active 1463-1510) was an Italian painter active mainly in Lucca. This painter has been identified as matching Berenson's putative ''Master of Stratonice'', and is also called ''Michele di Michele Ciampanti''. Biography Biograp ...

(?–1510) *

Carlo Cignani Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well a ...

(1628–1719) * Giambettino Cignaroli (1706–1770) *

Cimabue Cimabue (; ; – 1302), Translated with an introduction and notes by J.C. and P Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World’s Classics), 1991, pp. 7–14. . also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter ...

(1240–1302) *

Vincenzo Civerchio Vincenzo Civerchio or Civercio (c. 1470c. 1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, born at Crema, and active also in Brescia, where there are some of his alter-pieces. One of his works is at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., ...

(1470–1544) *

Sigismondo Coccapani Sigismondo Coccapani (1585 - 1643) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he studied under Ludovico Cigoli in Rome, before returning to his native city. Life Coccapani was born at Florence in 1585. He at first studied li ...

(1585–1643) *

Leonardo Coccorante Leonardo Coccorante (1680–1750) was an Italian painter known for his Capriccio (art), ''capricci'' depicting imaginary landscapes with ruins of classical architecture. Life Leonardo Coccorante was born in Naples, Naples, Italy. He studied or ...

(1680–1750) *

Colantonio Colantonio is a general contractor headquartered in Holliston, Massachusetts. The firm offers preconstruction, general contracting, and construction management services with specialization in academic, affordable housing, municipal, and historic ...

(c. 1420–c.1460) *

Michele Coltellini Michele Coltellini (1480–1542) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Ferrara. Biography He was a follower of Panetti and Garofalo, who lived in the 16th century. He is the author of a 'Dead Christ on the lap of the Virgin' in the Dresden G ...

(1480–1542) *

Giacomo Coltrini Giacomo Coltrini (16th century) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a Renaissance style in Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label=Eastern Lombard, Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the re ...

(16th century) *

Cima da Conegliano Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered part of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da ...

(c.1459–c.1517) *

Jacopo Coppi Jacopo Coppi, also called ''Giacomo Coppi'' or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1546 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi. Biography He w ...

(1523–1591) *

Leonardo Corona Leonardo Corona (1561–1605) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice. Born in Murano. For the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, he painted an ''Annunciation''; while for Santo Stefano, he painted an ...

(1561–1605) *

Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...

(1494–1534) *

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (July 1844 – 30 January 1905) was an Italian painter of landscapes and orientalist scenes.Mavi Boncuk: "Hermann CorrodiThe Galata Bridge and the Yeni Valide Djami Accessed 23 June 2011.Juler, Caroline, ''Les or ...

(1844–1905) * Niccolò Corso (1446–c. 1512) *

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

(1596–1669) *

Francesco del Cossa Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara, who after 1470 worked in Bologna. Cossa is best known for his frescoes, especially his collaboration with Cosimo Tura on a cycle of the mo ...

(1436–1478) * Giovanni Costa (1826–1903) *

Lorenzo Costa Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Biography He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked in ...

(1460–1535) * Carlo Cozza (c. 1700–1769) *

Giovanni Battista Crema Giovanni Battista Crema ( Ferrara, 1883 – Rome, 1964) was an Italian painter. Biography Crema was born in Ferrara in 1883. In 1889 he moved to Naples to study under Michele Cammarano and Domenico Morelli at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. ...

(1883–1964) *

Daniele Crespi Daniele Crespi (159819 July 1630) was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He is regarded as one of the most original artists working in Milan in the 1620s. He broke away from the exaggerated manner of Lombard Mannerism in favour of an early Ba ...

(1598–1630) *

Giovan Battista Crespi Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an Italian language, Italian Painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and architect. Biography He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele ...

(il Cerano) (1573–1632) *

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most ...

(Lo Spagnuolo) (1665–1747) *

Donato Creti Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bo ...

(1671–1749) *

Carlo Crivelli Carlo Crivelli ( Venice, c. 1430 – Ascoli Piceno, c. 1495) was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivar ...

(1430–1495) *

Vittore Crivelli Vittorio (or Vittore) Crivelli was an Italian painter, brother of Carlo Crivelli. Born ca. 1440 in Venice, dead in Venice 1501 or 1502. His works are similar in style to his brother's, but less accomplished. There are examples of his work in the ...

(1440–1502) *

Baldassare Croce Baldassare Croce ( Bologna, 1558–November 8, 1628) was an Italian painter, active during the late- Mannerist period, active mainly in and around Rome. Biography He trained in Bologna, and moved to Rome by 1581. Known as a prolific academic pa ...

(1558–1628) *

Francesco Curradi Francesco Curradi or Currado (15 November 1570 – 1661) was an Italian painter of the style described as Counter-''Maniera'' or Counter-Mannerism, born and active in Florence. Biography Curradi was the son of a jeweller, Taddeo. He trained unde ...

(1570–1661)

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Bernardo Daddi Bernardo Daddi ( 1280 – 1348) was an early Italian Renaissance painter and the leading painter of Florence of his generation. He was one of the artists who contributed to the revolutionary art of the Renaissance, which broke away from the conve ...

(c. 1280–1348) * Pino Daeni (1939–2010) *

Ottaviano da Faenza Ottaviano da Faenza, an Italian painter of the 14th century As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was a century lasting from 1 January 1301 ( MCCCI), to 31 December 1400 ( MCD). It is estimated that the century witnessed ...

(14th century) *

Vito D'Ancona Vito D'Ancona (August 12, 1825January 9, 1884) was an Italian painter of the Macchiaioli group. He was born in Pesaro to a wealthy Jewish family. He began his artistic training in Florence, and in 1844 was admitted to the Accademia di Belle Ar ...

(1825–1884) * Cosmo D'Angeli (1889–1968) *

Daniele da Volterra Daniele Ricciarelli (; 15094 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra (, ), was a Mannerist Italian painter and sculptor. He is best remembered for his association with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important wo ...

(c.1509 –1566) * Giuseppe De Sanctis (1858–1924) *

Serafino De Tivoli Serafino De Tivoli (March 18261892) was an Italian painter of the Macchiaioli group. Biography He was born in Livorno. After initial study of literature at a religious private school in Florence, he began his artistic training under Carlo Mark ...

(1826–1892) *

Giorgio De Vincenzi Giorgio De Vincenzi (1884–1965), was an Italian painter and etcher. He was a versatile artist, using diverse techniques and specialised in landscapes and portraiture. Short biography and analysis Born in Ferrara in December 1884, De Vincenzi ...

(1884–1965) *

Luigi Deleidi Luigi Deleidi (15 November 1784, Bergamo - 2 September 1853, Bergamo)B ...

(1784–1853) * Francesco Denanto (fl. 1520–1532) *

Beppe Devalle Giuseppe Riccardo "Beppe" Devalle (8 April 1940 – 4 February 2013) was an Italian Painting, painter and collage, collagist, acknowledged as one of the most interesting and highly appreciated artists of the last few decades of Italian painting. ...

(1940–2013) *

Antonio DeVity Antonio DeVity (1901–1993, born Umberto Marone) was an Italian painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to t ...

(1901–1993) * Fra Diamante (c.1430–c.1498) *

Carlo Dolci Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions. Biography He was born in Florence, ...

(1616–1686) *

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoem ...

(1581–1641) *

Domenico di Bartolo Domenico di Bartolo (birth name Domenico Ghezzi), born in Asciano, Siena, was a Sienese painter who became active during the early Renaissance period. He was inaccurately named by the famous painter, writer and historian Giorgio Vasari as the ne ...

(c. 1400/1404–1445/1447) *

Domenico di Zanobi Domenico di Zanobi, formerly known as the Master of the Johnson Nativity, was an Italian Renaissance painter. His exact dates of birth and death are not known. He is documented as a mature artist from 1467 until 1481. Domenico di Zanobi's painti ...

(active 1460–1481) *

Domenico Veneziano Domenico Veneziano (c. 1410 – May 15, 1461) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, active mostly in Perugia and Tuscany. Little is known of his birth, though he is thought to have been born in Venice, hence his last name. He then moved ...

(c.1410–1461) * Enrico Donati (1909–2008) *

Dosso Dossi Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, better known as Dosso Dossi ( 1489–1542), was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the School of Ferrara, painting in a style mainly influenced by Venetian painting, in particular Giorgione and earl ...

(c. 1490–1542) * Giuseppe Drugman (1810–1846) *

Duccio Duccio di Buoninsegna ( , ; – ) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Du ...

(1255–1319)

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Giovanni Fattori Giovanni Fattori (September 6, 1825August 30, 1908) was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. He was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects. In his middle years, inspired by the Barbi ...

(1825–1908) *

Martino Ferabosco Martino Ferabosco was an Italian engraver who lived in Rome, and engraved the plates for the work ''Architettura della Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano'' (Architecture of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican Vatican may refer to: Vatican City, ...

(17th century) *

Floriano Ferramola Floriano or Fioravante Ferramola (c. 1478 – 3 July 1528) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label=Eastern Lombard, Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is ...

(c. 1478–1528) *

Defendente Ferrari Defendente Ferrari (c. 1480/1485 – c. 1540) was an Italian painter active in Piedmont. His work marks the transition from late Gothic traditions to Renaissance art in the region. Life and work Ferrari was born at Chivasso, near Turin. ...

(1480/85–1540) *

Gaudenzio Ferrari Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 – 11 January 1546) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance. Biography Gaudenzio was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in the Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the Province of V ...

(1471–1546) *

Antonio Ferrigno Antonio Ferrigno (22 December 1863, Maiori – 12 December 1940, Salerno) was an Italian painter; best known for his landscapes and genre scenes created during a stay in Brazil. Biography Initially self-taught, his first art lessons were taken in ...

(1863–1940) * Domenico Fetti (1589–1623) *

Domenico Fiasella Domenico Fiasella (12 August 1589 – 19 October 1669) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Genoa. He was nicknamed ''Il Sarzana'', after his birthplace. Biography He was born in c, the son of Giovanni Fiasella, a silve ...

(1589–1669) *

Marcello Figolino Marcello Figolino (born c. 1430) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Vicenza, where he painted an ''Adoration of the Magi'' for San Bartolomeo, and a ''Madonna and child with saints'' for San Fr ...

(15th century) *

Francesco Filippini Francesco Filippini (18 September 1853 – 6 March 1895) was an Italian painter from Lombardy. He was much influenced by Tranquillo Cremona. Life Filippini was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, on 18 September 1853, into a poor ...

(1853–1895) * Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) *

Michele Foschini Michele Foschini (September 14, 1711 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter, active in a late Baroque style. He was born in Guardia Sanframondi. He studied under Niccola Maria Rossi, a pupil of Francesco Solimena. He was respected for his quadratur ...

(1711–c. 1770) *

Vincenzo Foppa Vincenzo Foppa ( – ) was an Italian painter from the Renaissance period. While few of his works survive, he was an esteemed and influential painter during his time and is considered the preeminent leader of the Early Lombard School. He spent hi ...

(1430–1515) * Marcantonio Franceschini (1648–1729) *

Francesco Francia __NOTOC__ Francesco Francia, whose real name was Francesco Raibolini (1447 – 5 January 1517) was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.Levinson:492 He may have trained with Marco Zop ...

(1447–1517) *

Giorgio Fuentes Giorgio Fuentes (1756–1821) was a painter and stage designer of the Neoclassic period. He was born in Milan, studied under Pietro Gonzaga Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga (Pierre Gothard Gonzague in contemporary French sources, Пьетро Го ...

(1756–1821) *

Bernardino Fungai Bernardino Fungai (1460– c. 1516) was an Italian painter whose work marks the transition from late Gothic painting to the early Renaissance in the Sienese school.

(1460–1516)

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Agnolo Gaddi Agnolo Gaddi (c.1350–1396) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Florence, and was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi,who was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto. Agnolo was a painter and mosaicist, train ...

(1350–1396) *

Taddeo Gaddi Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italian painter and architect. He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called Gaddo Gaddi. He was a member of Giotto's workshop from 1313 until the master's death in 1337. ...

(c. 1300–1366) *

Enrico Gamba Enrico Gamba (3 June 1831, in Turin – 19 October 1883, in Turin) was an Italian painter of Genre art, genre scenes, period pieces and a few portraits. Biography His father worked for the Royal Accounting Office. He was the younger brothe ...

(1831–1883) *

Francesco Gamba Francesco Gamba (December 21, 1818 – May 10, 1887) was an Italian People, Italian painter, mainly of seascapes. Biography He was born in Turin to Alberto, a main auditor for the Court of King Charles Albert of Sardinia. His father was name ...

(1818–1887) *

Lattanzio Gambara Lattanzio Gambara (c. 1530 – 18 March 1574) was an Italian painter, active in Renaissance and Mannerist styles. It is likely that Gambara is the same 16th century painter referred to as ''Lattanzio Cremonese'' or ''Lattanzio da Cremona''. Biog ...

(c. 1530–1574) *

Salvatore Garau Salvatore Garau (born 1953) is an Italian artist from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Life Garau was born in Santa Giusta, in the province of Oristano in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy. He studied at the Accademia di Bel ...

(born 1953) *

Enrico Garff Enrico Garff (26 November 1939) is an Italian portrait painter and colourist. Garff has worked as an artist in Positano, Sorrento, Rome, Sicily and in Sweden and Finland. Garff's works include oils, watercolours, acrylics, gouaches and painti ...

(born 1939) *

Domenico Gargiulo Domenico Gargiulo called Micco Spadaro ( – ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Naples and known for his landscapes, genre scenes, and history paintings. Life Domenico Gargiulo was the son of a sword maker. Th ...

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Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo called Micco Spadaro ( – ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Naples and known for his landscapes, genre scenes, and history paintings. Life Domenico Gargiulo was the son of a sword maker. ...

(1609–1610–ca. 1675) *

Bartolomeo Gennari Bartolomeo Gennari (10 July 1594 – 29 January 1661) was an Italian Renaissance painter. His painting style is consistent with the Bolognese School of painting. Biography Gennari was the son of the painter Benedetto Gennari and Giulia Bovi. His ...

(1594–1661) *

Gentile da Fabriano Gentile da Fabriano ( – 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic painter style. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best-known works are his ''Adoration of the Magi ...

(c. 1370–1427) *

Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (, ; 8 July 1593) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing profess ...

(1593–1652) *

Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other artists. After ...

(1563–1639) *

Tommaso Gherardini Tommaso Gherardini (December 21, 1715 - 1797) was an Italian painter, mainly of Rococo fresco decorations. Biography He was born in Florence, where he was a pupil of Vincenzo Meucci. He also traveled to Bologna and Venice to study at the resp ...

(1715–1797) *

Davide Ghirlandaio Davide Ghirlandaio (1452–1525), also known as David Ghirlandaio and as Davide Bigordi, was an Italian painter and mosaicist, active in his native Florence. His brothers Benedetto Ghirlandaio (1458–1497) and Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–14 ...

(1452–1525) *

Domenico Ghirlandaio Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (, , ; 2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, also spelled as Ghirlandajo, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of t ...

(1449–1494) *

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Ridolfo di Domenico Bigordi, better known as Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (14 February 1483 – 6 June 1561) was an Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Florence. He was the son of Domenico Ghirlandaio. Biography He was born in Florence. Since he ...

(1483–1561) * Giampietrino (c. 1495–1549) *

Corrado Giaquinto Corrado Giaquinto (8 February 1703 – 18 April 1766) was an Italian Rococo painter. Early training and move to Rome He was born in Molfetta. As a boy he apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, (c1667–1725), escaping the rel ...

(1703–1765) *

Camillo Gioja Barbera Camillo Gioja Barbera was a 19th-century Italian painter. He painted aquarelle Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water") ...

(19th century) *

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Earl ...

(1634–1705) *

Giorgione Giorgione (, , ; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quali ...

(c. 1477–1510) *

Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/ Proto-Renaissance period. G ...

(1267–1337) *

Giovanni da Milano Giovanni da Milano (Giovanni di Jacopo di Guido da Caversaccio) was an Italian painter, known to be active in Florence and Rome between 1346 and 1369. His style is, like many Florentine painters of the time, considered to be derivative of Giott ...

(fl. 1346–1369) *

Giovanni da Rimini Among the paintings attributed to Giovanni da Rimini (''Floruit, fl''. 1292–1336) are two Panel painting, panels from a former diptych, dated to 1300–1305, of which the left wing is in the collection of the National Gallery, London, and the rig ...

(fl. 1292–1336) *

Giovanni d'Alemagna Giovanni d'Alemagna (; born Johannes Alamanus; 9 July 1450) was a Venetian renaissance painter of German ancestry, active in Italy, with his brother-in-law Antonio Vivarini on religious paintings in Venice and Padua, that are preserved in the na ...

(1411–1450) * Giovanni del Biondo (fl. 1356–1399) * Giovanni di Paolo (1398–1482) * Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (1406–1486) *

Gerolamo Giovenone Gerolamo Giovenone (1486/1487 – 1555), also spelled ''Girolamo'', was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan. He was born in Vercelli. He was the teacher of the painter Gaudenzio Ferrari and possibly als ...

(1487–1555) * Girolamo da Carpi (1501–1556) *

Giunta Pisano Giunta Pisano (also named Giunta da Pisa or Giunta Capitini) was an Italian painter. He is the earliest Italian painter whose name is found inscribed on an extant work. He is best known for his crucifixes. Works He is said to have exercised hi ...

(1190–1258) *

Benozzo Gozzoli Benozzo Gozzoli (4 October 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. A pupil of Fra Angelico, Gozzoli is best known for a series of murals in the Magi Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, depicting festive, vibrant processions ...

(1421–1497) *il Grechetto (

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 16095 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monoty ...

) (1609–1664) *

Giuseppe Grisoni Giuseppe Pierre Joseph Grisoni (''bapt.'' 24 October 1699–1769), also known as Grifoni or Grison, was an Italian painter and sculptor, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux. Biography Born in Mons, he studied in Florence under ...

(1699–1796) *

Francesco Guardi Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (; 5 October 1712 – 1 January 1793) was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of ...

(1712–1793) *

Gianantonio Guardi Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699 – 23 January 1760), also known as Gianantonio Guardi, was an Italian painter and nobleman. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756. Biography He was born in Vienna into a family of nob ...

(1699–1760) * Guercino (1591–1666) *

Amanzia Guérillot Amanzia Ammirata Guérillot (20 April 1828, Milan - 1 December 1905, Boffalora sopra Ticino) was an Italian painter of French parentage; known primarily for vedute and still-lifes. Many of her works were mistakenly attributed to her first husband ...

(1828–1905) * Guido da Siena (1230–1290) *

Bartolomeo Guidobono Bartolomeo Guidobono (1654–1709) was an Italian painter known for his scenes with angelic looking figures bathing in soft lighting, which show the influence of Correggio. His elegant and graceful style was very popular in Genoa.M. Newcome. "Gui ...

(1654–1709) *

Renato Guttuso Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include ''Flight from Etna'' (1938–39), ''Crucifixion'' (1941) and ''La Vucciria'' (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre ( ...

(1911–1987)

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Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

(1791–1882)

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Domenico Induno Domenico Induno (14 May 1815 – 5 November 1878) was an Italian painter, primarily of genre and historical scenes. His younger brother, Gerolamo, also became a well-known artist and they often worked together. Biography He was born in Mila ...

(1815–1878) *

Gerolamo Induno Gerolamo Induno (13 December 1825 – 18 December 1890) was an Italian painter and soldier, best known for his military scenes. His older brother, Domenico, was also a well-known artist and they often worked together. Biography He was born in M ...

(1825–1890) * Innocenzo da Imola (1490–1550)

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Jacopo del Casentino Jacopo del Casentino (c. 1297 – 1358) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Tuscany in the first half of the 14th century. Life Very little is known about this artist other than that he likely came from Casentino. Giorgio Vasari incor ...

(1297–1349)

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Girolamo Lamanna Girolamo Lamanna (1580–1640) was an Italian painter. Born in Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the larges ...

(1580–1640) *

Carlo Lamparelli Carlo Lamparelli was an Italian painter, active as a portrait and historical painter, who flourished about 1680. He was born in the town of Spello. He was a pupil of Giacinto Brandi Giacinto Brandi (1621 – 19 January 1691) was an Italian ...

(fl. 1680) *

Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the ho ...

(1582–1647) *

Bernardino Lanini Bernardino Lanini or Lanino (c. 1512 – c. 1582) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan. Biography He was born in Mortara near Pavia.Pietro Lauri Pietro Lauri (middle 17th century) (also called Pietro Laurier) was a French painter, active mainly in Bologna. He lived most of his life in Bologna, where he was brought up in the school of Guido Reni. He painted several pictures for the churc ...

(17th century) *

Bice Lazzari Beatrice "Bice" Lazzari (15 November 1900 – 13 November 1981) was an Italian painter. Early life Beatrice Lazzari was born to Lorenzo (Luciano) Lazzari and Francesca Rinaldo. She was the second of three sisters, the youngest of whom, Onorina (N ...

(1900–1981) *

Gregorio Lazzarini Gregorio Lazzarini (1657 – 10 November 1730) was an Italian painter of mythological, religious and historical subjects, as well as portraits. One of the most successful Venetian artists of the day, a prominent teacher, and father to a signific ...

(1655–1730) *

Achille Lega Achille Lega (21 April 1899 – 28 January 1934) was an Italian painter. His early work was in the futurist style and he later became a cubist. Lega was born in Brisighella but lived in Florence from the age of ten. He first studied painting wit ...

(1899–1934) *

Silvestro Lega Silvestro Lega (8 December 1826 – 21 September 1895) was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement. Biography He was born in Modigliana, near Forlì, to a ...

(1826–1895) *

Achille Leonardi Achille Leonardi (ca. 1800–1870) was an Italian artist. Leonardi painted with oil on canvas. Works A representative sample of Leonardi's works include: * Linda di Chamonnid (Chamonix) (100 x 75 cm) * A child's bed time (98 x 74 c ...

(c. 1800–1870) * Pietro Giovanni Leonori (fl. 1400) *

Liberale da Verona Liberale da Verona (1441–1526) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Verona. In popular culture: In the British TV series '' Inspector Morse'', in the episode " The Death of the Self", the works of Liberale ...

(1445–1530) * Gennesio Liberale (16th century) * Giovanni Antonio Licinio (c. 1515–1576) *

Ulvi Liegi Ulvi Liegi (born Luigi Mosè Levi; 1858–1939) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Part of the Post-macchiaioli movement, he painted various cityscapes of Livorno and depictions of Livornese daily life. Biography Luigi Levi, who signed his ...

(1858–1939) *

Cesare Ligario Cesare Ligario (1716- after 1755) was an Italian painter. He was born in Milan, the son of Giovanni Pietro Ligario. He studied at Venice under Giovanni Battista Pittoni Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 ...

(1716–c. 1755) *

Berto Linajuolo Berto Linajuolo was an Italian painter, active in Florence, who lived in the first part of the 15th century. His pictures gained him sufficient fame to cause him to be summoned to the court of Hungary. Bernard Berenson hypothesized, without any do ...

(15th century) *

Filippino Lippi Filippino Lippi (April 1457 – 18 April 1504) was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance. Biography Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, Tu ...

(1457–1504) * Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469) *

Giacomo Lippi Giacomo Lippi (late 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was, born at Budrio. He was a pupil of Lodovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, ...

(16th century) * Giovanni Battista Livizzani (17th century) *

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi Giovanni Agostino da Lodi was an Italian painter who was active from c. 1495 to c. 1525. The attribution of his works has been dubious for centuries, until his style and career was defined by the American art historian Bernard Berenson. One of h ...

(c. 1470–c. 1519) *

Barbara Longhi Barbara Longhi (, ; 21 September 1552 – 23 December 1638) was an Italian painter. She was much admired in her lifetime as a portraitist, although most of her portraits are now lost or unattributed. Her work, such as her many Madonna and Child p ...

(1552–1638) * Pietro Longhi (1701–1785) *

Francesco Longo Mancini Francesco Longo Mancini (1880–1954) was an Italian painter of the early 20th century who was known for his paintings of nudes.

(1880–1954) *

Ambrogio Lorenzetti Ambrogio Lorenzetti (; – 9 June 1348) or Ambruogio Laurati was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted '' The Allegory of Good and Bad Government'' in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nin ...

(fl. 1319–1348) *

Pietro Lorenzetti Pietro Lorenzetti (; – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimen ...

(1280–1348) *

Lorenzo di Credi Lorenzo di Credi (1456/59 – January 12, 1537) was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor best known for his paintings of religious subjects. He is most famous for having worked in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio at the same time ...

(1459–1537) *

Lorenzo Monaco Lorenzo Monaco (1370 – 1425) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic to early Renaissance age. He was born Piero di Giovanni in Siena, Italy. Little is known about his youth, apart from the fact that he was apprenticed in Florence. He was inf ...

(1370–1425) *

Lorenzo Veneziano Lorenzo Veneziano ('Lorenzo the Venetian') (active 1356–1372) was an important painter in Venice during the second half of the 14th century.John Richards. "Lorenzo Veneziano." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 1 ...

(fl. c.1370) *

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religiou ...

(1480–1557) *

Luca di Tommè Luca di Tommè (or Luca Thome) (c. 1330–1389) was an Italian painter active between 1356 and 1389 in Siena. He worked in the style established by earlier Sienese painters Duccio, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. More t ...

περ. 1330–1389) *

Bernardino Luini Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) was a north Italian painter from Leonardo's circle during the High Renaissance. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described as having ...

(1481–1532)

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Angelo Maccagnino Angelo Maccagnino, also known as Angelo da Siena (active 1447 – 1456), was an Italian Renaissance painter. He was from Siena but became a pupil of Rogier van der Weyden and from 1447 court painter to Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara ...

or Angelo da Siena (?–1456) *

Enrico Maccioni Enrico Maccioni (born 9 January 1940) is an Italian painter of contemporary art. Biography Enrico Maccioni is an italian painter and draftsman, known for his instinctive poetic painting, he has been suffering from spastic tetraparesis since birt ...

(born 1940) *

Macrino d'Alba Macrino d'Alba (c. 1460–1465 – c. 1510–1520) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Piedmont, who is known for his altarpieces and portraits. His birth name was ''Gian Giacomo de' Alladio''. Life The lack o ...

(c. 1460–1465–c. 1510–1520) *

Mario Mafai Mario Mafai (12 February 1902 – 31 March 1965) was an Italian painter. With his wife Antonietta Raphaël he founded the modern art movement called the Scuola Romana, or Roman school. Biography Mafai left school very early, preferring to at ...

(1902–1965) *

Aimo Maggi Aimo Maggi (31 May 1756 – 9 December 1793) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic periods, mainly active in his natal city of Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label=Eastern Lombard, Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) ...

(1756–1793) *

Alessandro Magnasco Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape sce ...

(1667–1749) *

Bastiano Mainardi Bastiano di Bartolo Mainardi (1466 – 1513) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He was born in San Gimignano and was active there and in Florence. According to Giorgio Vasari, Mainardi is portrayed in the frescoes in the Sa ...

(1460–1513) * Matilde Malenchini (1779–1858) *

Luigi Malice Luigi Malice (born 1937, Naples, Italy) is an Italian abstract artist. Malice studied at Naples Academy of Fine Arts as a pupil of Emilio Notte, later studying under avant-garde and ''Informal Art'' painter Domenico Spinosa. He began as ...

(born 1937) *

Antonio Mancini Antonio Mancini (14 November 1852 – 28 December 1930) was an Italian painter. Biography Mancini was born in Rome and showed precocious ability as an artist. At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, w ...

(1852–1930) * Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582–1622) * Giovanni Mansueti (1465–1527) *

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in orde ...

(c. 1431–1506) *

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

(1625–1713) *

Luigi Marchesi Luigi Marchesi (; 8 August 1754 – 14 December 1829) was an Italian castrato singer, one of the most prominent and charismatic to appear in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century. His singing was praised by the likes of Mozart ...

(1825–1862) *

Luigi Marengo Luigi Marengo (born 3 February 1928 in Gallarate, Province of Varese; died 5 January 2010) was a 20th-century Italian painter. Marengo's paintings have been displayed throughout Italy and around the world, including at the Grand Palais Museum i ...

(1928–2010) *

Margaritone d'Arezzo Margarito, Margaritone da Arezzo, or Margaritone d'Arezzo (''fl. c.'' 1250–1290) was an Italian painter from Arezzo in Tuscany. Margaritone's given name was Margarito, but it was transcribed erroneously by Vasari as "Margaritone". It is by ...

(fl. c. 1250–1290) *

Carlo Maria Mariani Carlo Maria Mariani (25 July 1931 – 19 November 2021) was an Italian painter. Career His paintings are rooted both in neoclassicist theory and modernism. In the 1970s he defended his choice of medium from attacks by art critics by making para ...

(1931–2021) *

Giovanni Maria Mariani Giovanni Maria Mariani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commerci ...

(17th century) *

Michele Marieschi Michele Marieschi or Michele Giovanni Marieschi, also Michiel (1696 - – 18 January 1744), also known as ''Michiel'', was an Italian painter and engraver. He is mainly known for his landscapes and cityscapes (''vedute''), or views, mostly ...

(1710–1744) *

Carlo Martini Carlo Martini (1908–1958) was an Italian painter and academician. Biography He studied in Brera Academy of Milan under the tutelage of Aldo Carpi. He moved to England in 1938. He lived in London and Glasgow. He came back in Italy in 1940 ...

(1908–1958) *

Simone Martini Simone Martini ( – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil ...

(1284–1344) *

Guido Marzulli Guido Marzulli is a figurative Italian painter . Biography Guido Marzulli was born in Bari, July 8, 1943. His father – Michele Marzulli, who was also a poet and writer – and his mother Rosa Tosches were skilled painters. He began his art ...

(born 1943) *

Masaccio Masaccio (, , ; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasar ...

(1401–1428) *

Maso di Banco Maso di Banco (working ''c'' 1335–1350) was an Italian painter of the 14th century, who worked in Florence, Italy. He and Taddeo Gaddi were the most prominent Florentine pupils of Giotto di Bondone, exploring the three-dimensional dramatic real ...

(?–1348) *

Masolino da Panicale , death_date = ''c.'' 1447 , death_place = Florence , nationality = Italian , field = Painting, fresco , training = , movement = Italian Renaissance , works = frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel , patrons ...

(1383–1447) *

Michele Mastellari Michele Mastellari was an Italian painter of quadratura, active during the mid-19th century in Bologna. He often worked with his brother, Francesco (born 1830). He painted in tempera, for the Teatro Contavalli and the Teatro Comunale of Bolo ...

Master of the Bambino Vispo The Master of the Bambino Vispo was a central- Italian painter active in the early 15th century. In the early 20th century, the art historian Osvald Sirén identified a group of unsigned paintings as being by the same artist. Sirén designat ...

(early 15th century) *

Master of the Osservanza Triptych The Master of the Osservanza Triptych, also known as the Osservanza Master and as the Master of Osservanza, is the name given to an Italian painter of the Sienese School active about 1430 to 1450. The Italian scholar Roberto Longhi recognized t ...

(fl. 1425–1450) *

Paolo de Matteis Paolo de Matteis (also known as ''Paolo de' Matteis''; 9 February 1662 – 26 January 1728) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Piano Vetrale, a hamlet of Orria, in the current Province of Salerno, and died in Naples. He trained ...

(c. 1662–1728) *

Filippo Mazzola Filippo Mazzola (1460 - 1505) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Parma, his father was Bartholomew, and he became a pupil of Francesco Tacconi. He worked mainly in the area between Parma and Piacenza. There is docume ...

(1460–1505) *

Ludovico Mazzolino Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna. Biography He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have ...

(1480–c. 1528) *

Carla Carli Mazzucato Carla Carli Mazzucato (born 2 November 1935) is a 20th-century Italian artist whose contributions to the world of contemporary art helped define the "modern expressionist" movement. Known for her unique style and bold color palette, her paintings ...

(born 1935) *

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (commonly known as il Morazzone; 1573–1626) was an Italian painter and draughtsman who was active in Milan. He is mainly known for his altarpieces, but his outstanding achievements are large decorative frescoes ...

"il Morazzone" (1573–1626) *

(early 15th century) * Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494) *

Francesco Melzi Francesco Melzi, or Francesco de Melzi (1491–1570), was an Italian painter born into a family of the Milanese nobility in Lombardy. He became a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci and remained as his closest professional assistant throughout his caree ...

(1491–1568/70) *

Lippo Memmi Lippo Memmi (c. 1291 – 1356) was an Italian painter from Siena. He was the foremost follower of Simone Martini, who was his brother-in-law. Together with Martini, in 1333 he painted what is regarded as one of the masterworks of the Intern ...

(?–1356) *

Vincenzo Meucci Vincenzo Meucci (1694–1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Born in Florence. He was a pupil first of the painter Sebastiano Galeotti, then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. He was patronized by the Marchese Giov ...

(1694–1766) *

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was ins ...

(1475–1564) *

Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (, ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and ...

(1884–1920) *

Bartolomeo Montagna Bartolomeo (or Bartolommeo) Montagna (, , ; 1450?– 11 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter who mainly worked in Vicenza. He also produced works in Venice, Verona, and Padua. He is most famous for his many Madonnas and his works ar ...

(1450–1523) *

Jacopo da Montagnana Jacopo da Montagnana, also known as Jacopo Parisato (c. 1440 to 1443 in Montagnana – 20 April and 14 Agusut 1499 in Padua) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance who was mainly active in the Padua area.John G. Bernasconi. "Jacopo da M ...

(1440–1499) *

Paolo Moranda Cavazzola Paolo Morando Cavazzola (1486–1522) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his hometown of Verona. He appears to have been a pupil of one of the brothers Morone, likely Francesco Morone. He painted in a style resembling th ...

(1486–1522) *

Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bo ...

(1890–1964) *

Domenico Morelli Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia d ...

(1823–1901) *

Moretto da Brescia Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (possibly 22 December 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His ...

(c.1498–1554) *

Emma Moretto Emma Moretto (19th-century) was an Italian painter, active in Venice painting landscapes and vedute A ''veduta'' ( Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape o ...

(19th century) *

Giovan Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Moroni ( – 5 February 1579) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He also is called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is conside ...

(1522–1579) *

Quirizio di Giovanni da Murano Quirizio di Giovanni da Murano or Quirizio da Murano or Quiricius (Venice ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. Biography Little is known about this painter. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Antonio of Murano, though ...

(fl. 1460–1478)

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* Nardo di Cione (d. 1366) *

Ottaviano Nelli Ottaviano Nelli (1375–1444?) was an Italian painter of the early Quattrocento. Nelli primarily painted frescoes, but also panel paintings. He had several pupils and two painters were influenced by him. Biography He was born in Gubbio in Umbr ...

(1375–1444) *

Neri di Bicci Neri di Bicci (1419–1491) was an Italian painter active in his native Florence. A prolific painter of mainly religious themes, he studied under his father, Bicci di Lorenzo, who had in turn studied under his father, Lorenzo di Bicci. The thr ...

(1418/1420–1492) *

Neroccio de' Landi Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early- Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena. He was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. ...

(1447–1500) * Niccolò di Liberatore (l'Alunno) (1430–1502) * Emilio Notti (1891–1982) *

Pietro Novelli Pietro Novelli (March 2, 1603 – August 27, 1647) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Palermo. Also known as ''il Monrealese'' or ''Pietro "Malta" Novelli'' to distinguish him from his father, Pietro Antonio Novelli I ...

(1603–1647) *

Allegretto Nuzi Allegretto Nuzi or ''Allegretto di Nuzio'' (1315–1373) was an Italian painter, active in a Gothic style mainly around Fabriano, in the Province of Ancona. Biography Nuzi was probably trained in Fabriano Fabriano is a town and '' comune'' of A ...

(1315–1373)

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Marco d'Oggiono Marco d'Oggiono (c. 1470 – c. 1549) was an Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied.Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Marco D'Oggione", ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York: Robert App ...

(c. 1470–c. 1549) *

Orcagna Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – 25 August 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. He worked as a consultant at the Florence Cathedral and supervised the construction of the fa ...

(Andrea di Cione) (1310–1368) *

Lelio Orsi Lelio Orsi (1508/1511 – 1587), also known as Lelio da Novellara, was a Mannerist painter and architect of the Reggio Emilia school in northern Italy. He was born and died in Novellara, and much of his work was completed in Reggio. He appears ...

(1511–1587)

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Pacino di Buonaguida Pacino di Buonaguida (active circa 1303 – about 1347) was an Italian painter active in Florence in the Gothic. Little is known of his biography, and only one work is signed, an altarpiece at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Scholars ...

(1280–1340) * Paolo Pagani (1655–1716) *

Eleuterio Pagliano Eleuterio Pagliano (2 May 1826 – 5 January 1903) was an Italian painter of the Romanticism, Romantic period as well as an activist and fighter of the ''Risorgimento''. Biography Pagliano was born in Casale Monferrato in the Kingdom of Sardin ...

(1826–1903) *

Gioacchino Pagliei Gioacchino Pagliei (born 1852 in Subiaco, Lazio, died 1896 in Rome) was an Italian painter who worked in the Neo-Pompeian genre. Education and career Pagliei studied in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca, where in 1871 he won an award for a dr ...

(1852–1896) *

Arcangela Paladini Arcangela Paladini (or Arcangiola Palladini) (Pisa, Italy, Pisa 1599 – Florence, Italy, Florence 1622) was an Italian painter, singer and poet. Early life and education Arcangela Paladini was the daughter of Florentine painter Filippo Paladini ...

(1599–1622) *

Palma il Giovane Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

(1548/1550–1628) *

Palma il Vecchio Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), born Jacopo Palma, also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance, Italian High Renaissance. He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian ("Palma ...

(1480–1528) *

Marco Palmezzano Marco Palmezzano (1460–1539) was an Italian painter and architect, belonging to the Forlì painting school, who painted in a style recalling earlier Northern Renaissance models. He was mostly active near Forlì. Biography Palmezzano was ...

(1460–1539) *

Giovanni Paolo Panini Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the ''vedutisti'' ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of ...

(1691–1765) *

Paolo Veneziano Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia (active by 1333, died after 1358) was a 14th-century painter from Venice, the "founder of the Venetian School" of painting, probably active between about 1321 and 1362.

(1300–1365) *

Alessandro Papetti Alessandro Papetti (born 1958 in Milan) is an Italian painter. Career and works Since being featured in the 2003 Venice Biennale, Papetti emerged as one of the most important Italian painters today. Since 1995 he has been dividing his time betw ...

(born 1958) *

Napoleone Parisani Napoleone Parisani (11 April 1854, Camerino – 20 September 1932, Rome) was an Italian landscape and occasional portrait painter. Biography He was born to Count Giuseppe Parisani (1823-1887), the first mayor of Camerino after unification, and ...

(1854–1932) *

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, B ...

(1503–1540) * Ferdinando Partini (active 1790s) *

Luigia Pascoli Luigia Pascoli (23 October 1805 in Monfalcone, Province of Gorizia – 3 April 1882 in Bologna) was an Italian painter. She depicted genre scenes, often in pastel. The often made miniature copies of grand masters. Biography She studied un ...

(1835–1885) *

Bartolomeo Passarotti Bartolomeo Passarotti or Passerotti (1529–1592) was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna. His family name is also spelled Passerotti or Passarotto. Life and work From approximately 1550 to 1555, ...

(1529–1592) * Domenico Passignano (1559–1638) *

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (29 April 1675 – 2 November 1741) was one of the leading Venetian history painters of the early 18th century. His style melded the Renaissance style of Paolo Veronese with the Baroque of Pietro da Cortona and ...

(1675–1741) *

Itala Pellegrino Itala Pellegrino (born 1865) was an Italian painter Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. A * Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509/12–1571) * Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868) * Angiolo Achini ( ...

(born 1865) *

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique ...

(1868–1907) *

Odoardo Perini Odoardo Perini (5 April 1671 – 29 December 1757) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona. Biography He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino. He then trained in Bologna under Giovanni Maria Viani. He painted a ...

(1671–1757) *

Perugino Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil. ...

(c. 1445–1523) *

Simone Peterzano Simone Peterzano (c. 1535–1599) was an Italian painter from Bergamo, but stressed his links to Venice where he probably trained. He painted in mannerist style and is mostly known as the master of Caravaggio. Peterzano called himself a pupil o ...

(1535–1599) *

Vincenzo Petrocelli Vincenzo Petrocelli (6 July 1823 – 2 February 1896) was a Neapolitan artist. Petrocelli was born in Cervaro in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now in Lazio). He studied under Domenico Morelli, and was active as a painter from about 1850. He ...

(1825–1896) *

Umberto Pettinicchio Umberto Pettinicchio (born 1943) is an Italian painter and sculptor.Carella, Elvira (31 January 2010)"Le colline della Brianza e i suoi stupendi campanili sono la mia ispirazione" '' Il Giorno''. Retrieved 8 March 2017 . Biography He was bor ...

(born 1943) * Pietro Pezzati (1828–1890) *

Baldassare Peruzzi Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536) was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena (in Ancaiano, ''frazione'' of Sovicille) and died in Rome. He worked for many years with Bramante, Raphael, and lat ...

(1481–1537) * Pesellino (1422–1457) * Piero della Francesca (c.1416–1492) *

Piero di Cosimo Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento; he is said to ...

(1462–1522) *

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

(1683–1754) *

Nicola di Pietro Nicola di Pietro (fl. late-14th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Tuscany. References * 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Renaissance painters Ye ...

(14th century) * Domenico Piola (1627–1703) *

Pinturicchio Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (, ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname (meaning "little painter") because of his sma ...

(1454–1513) *

Sebastiano del Piombo Sebastiano del Piombo (; c. 1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained ...

(c. 1485–1547) *

Fausto Pirandello Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the ''Scuola romana (Roman School)''. He was the son of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello. Biography After a short experienc ...

(1899–1975) *

Giuseppe Pirovani Giuseppe Pirovani (c. 1755-c. 1835) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label=Eastern Lombard, Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in ...

(c. 1755–c. 1835) *

Pisanello Pisanello (c. 1380/1395c. 1450/1455), born Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto, also erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance and Quatt ...

(1395–1455) *

Michelangelo Pittatore Michelangelo Pittatore (12 February 1825, Asti - 24 March 1903, Asti) was an Italian painter who specialized in portraits and religious paintings. Biography His father originally wanted to be a painter, but gave it up to support his family, b ...

(1825–1903) *

Giambattista Pittoni Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the ...

(1687–1767) *

Karl Plattner Karl Plattner (February 13, 1919 in Mals, Italy – December 8, 1986 in Milan, Italy) was a Southtyrolian Painter. Biography Plattner was born in 1919 as one of ten children in the Obervinschgau. After he left school, he apprenticed as a pa ...

(1919–1986) *

Antonio del Pollaiuolo Antonio del Pollaiuolo ( , , ; 17 January 1429/14334 February 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiuolo (also spelled Pollaiolo), was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith during the Italian Re ...

(c. 1429/1433–1498) * Piero del Pollaiuolo (1443–1496) * Giovanni Pietro de Pomis (c.1565–1633) *

Giovanni dal Ponte Giovanni dal Ponte (1385 – c. 1438 in Florence) was a Florentine minor master painter of the late- Gothic period, known as one of the greatest minor masters contemporary to Masaccio. He is known by Giorgio Vasari as dal Ponte, a name derived fro ...

(1385–1438) *

Pontormo Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as ''Jacopo da Pontormo'', ''Jacopo Pontormo'', or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound sty ...

(1494–1556) *

Antonio Porcelli Antonio Porcelli (1800–1870) was an Italian painter. He painted both landscape and figures Figure may refer to: General *A shape, drawing, depiction, or geometric configuration *Figure (wood), wood appearance *Figure (music), distinguished f ...

(1800–1870) * Francesco Porcia (1531–1612) *

il Pordenone Pordenone, Il Pordenone in Italian, is the byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (c. 1484 – 14 January 1539), an Italian Mannerist painter, loosely of the Venetian school. Vasari, his main biographer, wrongly identifies him as Giovann ...

(1483–1539) *

Gregorio Porideo Gregorio Porideo was an Italian painter of Venice. He was a pupil of Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian ( Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important m ...

(16th century) * Daniello Porri (16th century) * Aniello Portio (fl. 1690–1700) *

Andrea Pozzo Andrea Pozzo (; Latinized version: ''Andreas Puteus''; 30 November 1642 – 31 August 1709) was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. Pozzo was best known for his grandiose fresc ...

(1642–1709) *

Alessandro Prampolino Alessandro Prampolino (1827–1865) was an Italian landscape painter. He is known chiefly by his views (vedute) of the neighbourhood of Tivoli Tivoli may refer to: * Tivoli, Lazio, a town in Lazio, Italy, known for historic sites; the inspirati ...

(1827–1865) *

Ranunzio Prata Ranunzio Prata was an Italian painter. He was born in Milan, and painted in Pavia around 1635. He may be the author of an altarpiece at San Francesco, Brescia San Francesco is a Romanesque- Gothic style, Roman Catholic church and Franciscan mo ...

(fl. 1635) *

Luigi Premazzi Luigi Premazzi ( Milan, 1814 – Istanbul, Turkey, 1891) was an Italian painter, mainly of watercolor vedute. Biography Premazzi attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and then the private school run by Giovanni Migliara. His early watercolou ...

(1814–1891) * Mattia Preti (1613–1699) * Pier Francesco Prina (18th century) *

Giulio Cesare Procaccini Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574–1625) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan. Biography Born in Bologna he was son of the Mannerist painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder and brother of Camillo Procaccini and Ca ...

(1574–1625) * Stefano Provenzali (17th century) *

Mario Puccini Mario Puccini (28 June 1869, Livorno – 18 June 1920, Florence) was an Italian Post-impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and village scenes. He was sometimes referred to as "The Italian Van Gogh".

(1869–1920) *

Antonio Puglicochi Antonio Puglicochi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Florence. He was a pupil successively of Pietro Dandini and Ciro Ferri Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculpto ...

(17th century)

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Giovanni Battista Quadrone Giovanni Battista Quadrone (1844 – November 23, 1898) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre scenes. Biography He was a resident of Turin. He was born to a relatively wealthy family of marble merchants. His family encouraged his art studies, ...

(1844–1898)

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* Prospero Rabaglio (16th century) *

Raffaele Rabbia Rafaelle Rabbia (17th century) was an Italian painter, mainly painting portraits. He was born in Marino, and active in 1610. References * 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Year of death unknown ...

(fl. 1610) *

Domenico Rainaldi Domenico Rainaldi was an Italian painter of the Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the terri ...

(fl. 1665) *

Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, as well as an engraver and priest, active in Siena. He was a priest of Siena, who lived about the middle of the 17th century, and practised portrait and historical painti ...

(17th century) *

Laudadio Rambaldo Laudadio Rambaldo (late 14th century) was an Italian painter active in Ferrara, also known as ''Rambaldo di Ferrara''. According to Lanzi, flourished about 1386 and painted in the Church of the Servi at Castel Tedaldo. References * 14th-ce ...

(fl. 1386) *

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual ...

(1483–1520) * Francesco Redenti (1820–1876) *

Tommaso Redi Tommaso Redi (22 December 1665 – 10 October 1726) was an Italian painter, active during the late-Baroque in his native Florence. He initially apprenticed with the Florentine painter Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1652–1726), and then moved t ...

(1665–1726) *

Bernardo Regoliron Bernardo Regoliron was an Italian portrait painter, practising in the second half of the 18th century, was a pupil of P. P. Cristofani. At Vienna there are portraits by him of the Emperor Joseph II Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Mich ...

(18th century) *

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religi ...

(1575–1642) *

Cesare Reverdino Cesare Reverdino was an Italian engraver, who flourished from 1531 to 1564. He worked in a style between that of Giulio Bonasone and Agostino Veneziano, which suggests that he was of the school of Marcantonio Raimondi Marcantonio Raimondi, of ...

(fl. 1531–1564) *

Marco Ricchiedeo Marco Ricchiedeo was an Italian painter born at Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label=Eastern Lombard, Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated ...

(16th century) *

Giovanni Battista Ricci Giovanni Battista Ricci (Novara, circa 1537 – Rome, 1627) nicknamed Il Novara after his birth town, was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Biography Ricci moved to Rome from his native Pie ...

(1537–1627) *

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesq ...

(1659–1734) * Antonio Riccianti (17th century) *

Galeazzo Rivelli Galeazzo Rivelli (also called Galeazzo della Barba) was an Italian painter of the 14th century, active in Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label=Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombar ...

(14th century) * Ercole de' Roberti (1451–1496) *

Marietta Robusti Marietta Robusti (1560? – 1590) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto and is sometimes referred to as ''Tintoretta''. Biography The only known primary source for details of Marietta Robusti's lif ...

(c. 1560–1590) *

Romanino Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino (c. 1485 - c. 1566), was an Italian High Renaissance painter active in the Veneto and Lombardy, near Brescia. His long career brought forth several different styles. Biography Romani was born in Brescia. Hi ...

(1485–1566) *

Giulio Romano Giulio Romano (, ; – 1 November 1546), is the acquired name of Giulio Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-cent ...

(1499–1546) *

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19t ...

(1615–1673) *

Cosimo Rosselli Cosimo Rosselli (; 1439–1507) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in his birthplace of Florence, but also in Pisa earlier in his career and in 1481–82 in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where he painted some of the large ...

(1439–after 1506) * Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540) *

Antonio Rotta Antonio Rotta (28 February 1828 – 10/11 September 1903) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects. Biography Rotta was born on 28 February 1828 in Gorizia in the Kingdom of Illyria. He enrolled at the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti ...

(1828–1903) * Guido Ruggeri (fl. c. 1550s) *

Benedetto Rusconi Benedetto Rusconi, nicknamed the Diana, (ca. 1460 – 1525)
National Gallery of Art. Retrieved April 17, 2018. was an Ital ...

"il Diana" (1460–1525) * Clemente Ruta (1668–1767) *

Pietro Ruzolone Pietro Ruzolone (active during the 15th and 16th centuries) was an Italian painter, active in Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the ...

(d. 1517)

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* Lorenzo Sabatini (1530–1576) *

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors ...

(1599–1661) *

Giorgio Salmoiraghi Giorgio Salmoiraghi (26 November 1936 – 27 December 2022) was an Italian painter. He was born in Milan.

(born 1936) *

Marco Sammartino Marco Sammartino was a late 17th-century Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. He painted ''Baptism of Constantine'' and ''St. John the Baptist preaching'' for the cathedral at Rimini Rimini ( , ; rgn, Rémin; la, Ariminum) is a ...

(17th century) *

Domingo Maria Sanni Domingo Maria Sanni (18th century) was an Italian painter and architect of the late Baroque period, active in Spain. Confused by some with the Tuscan painter Sani di Pietro, he was. He was a chamber painter to King Carlos III of Spain, hence lik ...

(18th century) * Sano di Pietro (1406–1481) *

Fabrizio Santafede Fabrizio Santafede or Fabrizio Santaféde (c. 1560–1623/28) was an Italian painter known for his altarpieces. He painted in a style that rejected the Mannerism popular in the Naples of his time and evident in the works of Francesco Curia. Life ...

(1560–1623/28) *

Santi di Tito Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto-Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. Biography He was born in Flor ...

(1536–1603) *

Giovanni Santi Giovanni Santi (c. 1435 – 1 August 1494) was an Italian painter, decorator, and the father of Raphael. He was born in 1435 at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino. He studied under Piero della Francesca and was influenced by Fiorenzo di Lorenz ...

(1435–1494) *

Girolamo Santo Girolamo Santo (also called ''il Sordo'' or ''Girolamo da Padova'') was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in the 16th century. In Padua, he painted the facade of the Cornaro Palace, several frescoes in S. Francesco, and, with Berna ...

(16th century) *

Carlo Saraceni Carlo Saraceni (1579 – 16 June 1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968. Life Though he was born and died in ...

(1579–1620) *

Giuseppe Sartori Giuseppe Sartori (1863 – 1922) was an Italian painter, painting mainly land and seascapes, both urban vedute and rural. He was born in Venice, Austrian Empire, and resident in Milan. In 1883, at Milan, he displayed a ''Studio dal vero'', and ' ...

(1863–1922) *

Andrea del Sarto Andrea del Sarto (, , ; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altar-pieces ...

(1486–1530) *

Sassetta ''For the village near Livorno, see Sassetta, Tuscany'' Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo, known as il Sassetta (ca.1392–1450 or 1451) was an Tuscan painter of the Renaissance, and a significant figure of the Sienese School.Judy Metro, ''Italia ...

, Stefano di Giovanni (1392–1450) *

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (August 25, 1609 – August 8, 1685), also known as Giovanni Battista Salvi, was an Italian Baroque painter, known for his archaizing commitment to Raphael's style. He is often referred to only by the town o ...

(1609–1685) *

Girolamo Savoldo Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia (c. 1480–1485 – after 1548), was an Italian High Renaissance painter active mostly in Venice, although he also worked in other cities in northern Italy. He is noted for his subtle use ...

(1480–after 1548) *

Bartolomeo Schedoni Bartolomeo Schedoni (sometimes Schedone) (1578 – 23 December 1615) was an Italian early Baroque painter from Modena. Biography He was born in Modena, and moved to Parma with his father, a mask-maker who served the Farnese court. In 1595 Schedo ...

(1578–1615) *

Alessandro Scorzoni Alessandro Scorzoni (April 22, 1858 in Calcara di Crespellano, Province of Bologna – July 31, 1933 in Bologna) was an Italian painter, who depicted eclectic subjects, including sacred images, allegorical paintings, portraits, and landscape ...

(1858–1933) *

Antonino Sartini Antonino Sartini (Crespellano, 1889 – Bazzano, 7 May 1954) was an Italian painter. He has been called the "painter of serenity" and belongs to that group of landscape painters of the early 1900s of the " Bolognese School of Painting", such a ...

(1889–1954) *

Scipione (Gino Bonichi) Gino Bonichi (February 25, 1904 – November 9, 1933), known as Scipione, was an Italian painter and writer. He was born in Macerata. In 1909 he moved to Rome, where he later enrolled at the Scuola Libera di Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti ...

(1904–1933) *

Giovanni Segantini Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by ...

(1858–1899) *

Jacopo da Sellaio Jacopo del Sellaio (1441/42–1493), was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, active in his native Florence. His real name was Jacopo di Arcangelo. He worked in an eclectic style based on those of Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Domeni ...

(1441–1493) *

Ernesto Serra Ernesto Serra (24 March 1860 – 17 May 1915) was an Italian genre, landscape and portrait painter from Varallo Sesia, Province of Vercelli in the Piemonte Region. Biography Ernesto Serra was born on 24 March 1860 in Varallo Sesia.E. Benezit, ...

(1860–1915) *

Andrea Sguazella Andrea Sguazella was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence and France. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Sarto Andrea del Sarto (, , ; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an List of I ...

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Luca Signorelli Luca Signorelli ( – 16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the ''Last Judgment'' (1499–15 ...

(1445–1523) *

Telemaco Signorini Telemaco Signorini (; August 18, 1835 – February 10, 1901) was an Italian artist who belonged to the group known as the Macchiaioli. Biography He was born in the Santa Croce quarter of Florence, and showed an early inclination toward the st ...

(1835–1901) * Nicola Simbari (1927–2012) *

Simone dei Crocifissi Simone di Filippo Benvenuti, known as Simone dei Crocifissi or Simone da Bologna (about 1330 - 1399), was an Italian painter. Born and died in Bologna, he painted many religious panel paintings, and also frescoes in the churches of Santo Stefan ...

(1330–1399) *

Mario Sironi Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. Biography He was bor ...

(1885–1961) *

Sodoma Il Sodoma (1477 – 14 February 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of ...

(1477–1549) *

Andrea Solari Andrea Solari (also Solario) (1460–1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school. He was initially named ''Andre del Gobbo'', but more confusingly as ''Andrea del Bartolo'' a name shared with two other Italian painters, t ...

(1460–1524) *

Giuseppe Solenghi Giuseppe Solenghi (Milan, 1879 - Cernobbio (Province of Como), 1944) was an Italian painter, depicting mainly landscapes and cityscapes (vedute). Biography From 1892 to 1895, he was a pupil at the Brera Academy, studying painting under Cesare Ta ...

(1879–1944) *

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of ...

(1657–1747) *

Lionello Spada Leonello Spada (also called ''Lionello Spada'') (1576 – 17 May 1622) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and his native city of Bologna, where he became known as one of the followers of Caravaggio. Biography He f ...

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Giovanni Martino Spanzotti Giovanni Martino Spanzotti (c. 1455 – c. 1528; also known as ''Gian Martino Spanzotti'') was an Italian painter active in Piedmont, Lombardy and northern Italy. Biography He was born in Casale Monferrato and died in Chivasso. Little is k ...

(1455–1528) *

Spinello Aretino Spinello Aretino (c. 1350 – c. 1410) was an Italian painter from Arezzo, who was active in Tuscany at the end of the 14th and the first decennium of the 15th century.Francesco Squarcione Francesco Squarcione (''c.'' 1395 – after 1468) was an Italian artist from Padua. His pupils included Andrea Mantegna (with whom he had many legal battles), Cosimo Tura and Carlo Crivelli. There are only two works signed by him: the ''Mad ...

(c. 1395–1468) * Giovanni Stanchi (1608–c. 1675) *

Gherardo Starnina Gherardo Starnina (c. 1360–1413) was an Italian painter from Florence in the Quattrocento era. According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, Starnina initially trained with Antonio Veneziano, then with Agnolo Gaddi. He is claimed to have pa ...

(1354–1413) *

Stefano da Verona Stefano da Verona (or da Zevio; 1379 – c. 1438) was an Italian painter who was active in Verona. He was the son of the French painter Jean d'Arbois, who had come to Italy at the court for Gian Galeazzo Visconti after working for Philip II o ...

(1379–1438) *

Bernardo Strozzi Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included history, allegorical, genre and portrait paintin ...

(1581–1644)

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Francesco Tacconi Francesco Tacconi (fl. 1464 – 1490) was an list of Italian painters, Italian painter of the The Renaissance, Renaissance period, active in Cremona in the 15th century. He and his brother, Filippo Tacconi, executed several frescoes in a loggia i ...

(15th century) *

Taddeo di Bartolo Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1363 – 26 August 1422), also known as Taddeo Bartoli, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's biographies of artists or ''Vite''. Vas ...

(1363–1422) *

Spurius Tadius Spurius Tadius, also Ludius or Studius, was a Roman muralist of the Augustan period. His exact date of birth and death are unknown. Some manuscripts refer to him by alternate names, including Studius and Ludius. Tadius painted landscape murals dur ...

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Giovanni Temini Giovanni Temini was an Italian engraver of the Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territ ...

(fl. 1622) *

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an import ...

(1696–1770) *

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Life history Domenico was born in ...

(1727–1804) *

Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...

(1518–1594) *

Benvenuto Tisi Benvenuto Tisi (or Il Garofalo) (1481September 6, 1559) was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este. His early works have been described as "idyllic ...

(il Garofalo) (1481–1559) *

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

(1488–1576) *

Antonio Tognone Antonio Tognone was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was a fresco painter of Vicenza, who was instructed by Giovanni Battista Zelotti Giovanni Battista Zelotti (; 1526 – 28 August 1578) was an Italian painter of the late Renais ...

(16th century) *

Giulio Tonduzzi Giulio Tonduzzi (c.1513 – c.1583) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.Art in Northern Italy
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(c.1513–c.1583) *

Bartolommeo Torre Bartolommeo Torre was an Italian fresco painter of Arezzo Arezzo ( , , ) , also ; ett, 𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌌, Aritim. is a city and ''comune'' in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about ...

(17th century) *

Francesco Traballesi Francesco Traballesi was an Italian painter and architect. He was born in Florence in 1541, flourished in Rome during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII (1572–1585), and died in 1588 in Mantua, where he was working as an architect for the duke ...

(1541–1588) *

Gaspare Traversi Gaspare Traversi (c. 1722 – 1 November 1770) was an Italian Rococo painter best known for his genre works. Active mostly in his native city of Naples, he also painted throughout Italy, including a stay in Parma. Gaspare appears to have be ...

(1722–1770) * Giacomo Trécourt (1812–1882) *

Euclide Trotti Euclide Trotti was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label=Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of th ...

(16th century) *

Giovanni Maria Tucci Giovanni Maria Tucci was an Italian painter. He was a pupil in Siena under il Sodoma. He accompanied his master to Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligu ...

(fl. 1542) *

Cosimo Tura Cosimo is the Italian form of the Greek name ''Kosmas'' (latinised as '' Cosmas''). Cosimo may refer to: Characters * Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, hero of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel ''The Baron in the Trees'' Given name Medici family * Cosimo ...

(c. 1430–1495)

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Perino del Vaga Perino (or Perin) del Vaga (nickname of Piero Bonaccorsi) (1501 – October 19, 1547) was an Italian painter and draughtsman of the Late Renaissance/ Mannerism. Biography Perino was born near Florence. His father ruined himself by gambling, ...

(1501–1547) *

Andrea Vanni Andrea Vanni (1332 – c. 1414) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, active mainly in his native Siena. Biography Vanni was born in about 1332 in Siena. The first notice of him as a painter comes from 1353 when he was associated with ...

(1332–c. 1414) *

Tanzio da Varallo Antonio d'Enrico, called Tanzio da Varallo, or simply il Tanzio (c. 1575/1580 – c. 1632/1633) was an Italian painter of the late- Mannerist or early Baroque period. Biography He was born in Giacomolo hamlet, in Alagna Valsesia, and was active ...

(c. 1575/1580–c. 1632/1633) *

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

(1511–1574) *

Francesco Veau Francesco Veau (1727–1768) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a painter of quadratura and was born at Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, s ...

(1727–1768) *

Giovanni de' Vecchi Giovanni de' Vecchi (1536, Sansepolcro – 1614) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro, He first apprenticed with the painter Raffaello del Colle, then with Taddeo Zuccari, whom he assisted in the ...

(1536–1614) *

Benedetto Velli Benedetto Velli was an Italian painter of the Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territ ...

(17th century) *

Giovanni Vendramini Giovanni Vendramini (1769 – 8 February 1839) was an Italian engraver. Biography He was born at Roncade, Province of Treviso. He pursued his studies in his own country till nineteen, studying architecture with Antonio Gaidon in Bassano del G ...

(1769–1839) *

Giuseppe Vermiglio Giuseppe Vermiglio (c.1585 – c.1635) was a Caravaggisti, Caravaggist painter from Northern Italy, active also in Rome. Life Our knowledge of Vermiglio's life is sketchy. It is probable that he was born in Alessandria. He spent the first tw ...

(1585–1635) * Filippo da Verona (fl. 1509–1514) * Niccolò Da Verona (15th century) *

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as '' The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''T ...

(1528–1588) *

Andrea del Verrocchio Andrea del Verrocchio (, , ; – 1488), born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was a sculptor, Italian painter and goldsmith who was a master of an important workshop in Florence. He apparently became known as ''Verrocchio'' after the ...

(c. 1435–1488) * Francesco Vicentino (16th century) *

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on ...

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Lauretta Vinciarelli Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943 – August 3, 2011) was an artist, architect, and professor of architecture at the collegiate level. Background and education Born in Arbe, Italy, Lauretta Vinciarelli was the daughter of Alberto and Annunciata Cenc ...

(1943–2011) * Jacopo Vignali (1592–1664) *

Vitale da Bologna 250px, ''St. George and the Dragon'' Vitale da Bologna (–1360), also known as Vitale di Aymo de' Cavalli or Vitale degli Equi, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He is a representative of the 14th century school of painting ...

(1300–1360) *

Matteo di Vittore Matteo di Vittore was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Venice. He was the pupil and assistant of Giovanni Bellini. He was one of the artists chosen by Bellini to value Giorgione's frescoes in the Fondaco dei Turchi in 1508, and ...

(16th century) *

Bernardino Vitulini Bernardino Vitulini was an Italian painter. He was born in Serravalle, and lived at Belluno. He is known to have painted frescoes in the church of Ampezzo and Cadore Cadore (; lld, Ciadòre; vec, italic=yes, Cadór or, rarely, ''Cadòria''; g ...

(c. 1350) *

Alvise Vivarini Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may ha ...

(1442/53–1505) *

Antonio Vivarini Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (active c. 14401480) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the Republic of Venice. He is probably the earliest of a family of painters, which was descended ...

(1418–1476/84) * Bartolomeo Vivarini (1430–1491) *

Antonio Diego Voci Antonio Diego Voci (VOH-chee 1920–1985) was an internationally collected Italian figurative artist with the largest group of owners of his works residing in Switzerland, England, Germany, Italy, Canada and the US; as well as various works ...

(1920–1985) *

Vincenzo Volpe Vincenzo Volpe (December 14, 1855 – February 9, 1929) was an Italian painter. From 1874 to 1890, he painted mostly Genre art, genre scenes. From 1891 to 1896, he concentrated on religious art, then returned to genre works and portraits. Biogra ...

(1855–1929) * Giovanni Battista di Pietro di Stefano Volponi (16th century)

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Carlo Wostry Carlo Wostry (18 February 1865, Trieste - 10 March 1943, Trieste) was an Italian painter and illustrator. Youth and early career Carlo Wostry was the son of Ferdinando Wostry, and a Virginia Artelli. From 1882 to 1885 he studied art at the Ac ...

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Alessandro Zaffonato Alessandro Zaffonato (active 1730) was an Italian engraver of the late Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until ...

(fl. 1730) *

Domenico Zampieri Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoema ...

(1581–1641) *

Federico Zandomeneghi Federico Zandomeneghi (; June 2, 1841 – December 31, 1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter. Biography Federico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice. His father Pietro and grandfather Luigi were neoclassic sculptors. The latter completed t ...

(1841–1917) *

Giuseppe Miti Zanetti Giuseppe Miti Zanetti (October 9, 1859 in Modena – 1929 in Milan) was an Italian painter and engraver, mainly of melancholic vedute of Venice. Son of a well to do lawyer, he orphaned of father at a young age. Gravitating to arts, he first studi ...

(1859–1929) *

Bernardo Zenale Bernardo (or Bernardino) Zenale (c. 1460 – 1526) was an Italian painter and architect. Biography Zenale was born in Treviglio, Lombardy, where in 1485 he finished the great polyptych for the church of St. Martin, together with his fellow Ber ...

(c. 1460–1526) * Marco Zoppo (1433–1498) *

Francesco Zuccarelli Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (commonly known as Francesco Zuccarelli, ; 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) RA, was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to hav ...

(1702–1789) *

Federico Zuccari Federico Zuccaro, also known as Federico Zuccari (c. 1540/1541August 6, 1609), was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. Biography Zuccaro was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino (Marche). His docum ...

(1542–1609) *

Francesco Zugno Francesco Zugno ( c. 1708–1787) was an Italians, Italian painter of the Rococo period who had a successful career in Venice. Life Francesco Zugno was born in Venice in 1709 and probably died there in 1787. The Zugno were an ancient Venetian f ...

(1709–1787) *

Sergio Zanni Sergio Zanni (born in Ferrara, 1942) is an Italian painter and sculptor. After obtaining the Diploma at the Institute of Arts 'Dosso Dossi' in Ferrara, Italy, he graduated from the Academy of Arts (Accademia delle Belle Arti) in Bologna. He tau ...

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