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The barbarous, unenlightened “Middle Ages” were over, they said; the new age would be a “rinascità” (“rebirth”)
of learning and literature, art and culture. This was the birth of the period now known as the Renaissance.
XVI Tintoretto,
(Jacopo Robusti) (ca. 1518 - 1594), great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian School and one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance His paintings include Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars,the Christ and the Adulteress,and his masterpiece of 1594,The Last Supper of San Giorgio Maggiore.
I Renaissance
Between 1350 and 1550, Europe experienced a rebirth (renaissance) of commerce, interest in the classical cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, and confidence in human potential.
II Raphael Sanzio
usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) ( ca.1483 –1520) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings
III Sandro Bottocelli
(CA.1445-1510) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocen)
IV Tiziano Vecellio
(ca. 1488–1576), known as Titian, was the greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century,eventually gaining international fame. Titian is known above all for his remarkable Use of colour.
V Firenze
(Florence) The Renaissance was a rebirth that occurred throughout most of Europe. However we associate with the Renaissance first occurred in Florence and were more pervasive there than anywhere else
VI Giovanni Bellini
(ca.1430-1516)Giovanni Bellini is often considered to be the father of the Venetian Renaissance. His unparalleled rendering of colour and light helped usher in a period of overwhelming creativity in Venice, and arguably all of Europe.
VII Venetian
Venice, another centre of Renaissance art, is a shimmering, dream-like city of canals, which for centuries has been Italy's link with the exotic East.
VIII Giorgio Vasari
( ca.1511-1574), Italian painter, architect, and writer who is best known for his important biographies of Italian Renaissance artists.
IX Paolo Caliari
(ca.1528-1588) known as Paolo Veronese was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects
X Donatello
(ca.1386-1466) Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, universally known as Donatello, was born in Florence The powerful expressivity of his art made him the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance.
XI Michelangelo
(ca.1475-1504) Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
XII Fra Angelico
(ca.1395-1455) An Italian painter of the early Renaissance who was a devout friar with that of an accomplished painter. He was called Angelico (Italian for "angelic") because the paintings he did were of
religious subjects and because of his personal piety
XIII Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci (ca.1452–1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. trained in florence as a painter and sculptor in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488), Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions.
XIV Familia Medici
The House of Medici was a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo De Medici in Florence during the late 14th century. They fostered and inspired the birth of the Italian Renaissance along with other families of Italy, such as the Visconti and Sforza of Milan and the Gonzaga of Mantua.
XV Fra Filippo Lippi,
(ca.1406-1469)Florentine painter in the second generation of Renaissance artists. While exhibiting the strong influence of Masaccio (Madonna and Child and Fra Angelico ( Coronation of the Virgin), his work achieved a clarity of expression.