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Italian Renaissance painters

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Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) was a Florentine Mannerist painter and poet, court painter to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and the leading portraitist of mid-16th-century Florence.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (died 1348/49) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and younger brother of Pietro Lorenzetti, known for the Good and Bad Government frescoes in Siena.

Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto, born Andrea d'Agnolo (1486–1530), was a leading Florentine painter of the early 16th century whose works include the Madonna of the Harpies in the Uffizi.

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter and engraver, one of the foremost north Italian artists of the fifteenth century, famous for his experiments with perspective and classical themes.

Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) was an Italian painter from Messina who adopted Netherlandish oil technique and transformed Venetian portraiture during his documented stay in Venice, 1475 to 1476.

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, born Antonio Benci, was an Italian Renaissance goldsmith, sculptor, painter, and engraver in Florence, known for the Battle of the Nudes engraving.

Correggio

Correggio, born Antonio Allegri, was an Italian Renaissance painter named after his native town near Reggio Emilia, famous for his illusionistic dome frescoes in Parma.

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio, born Domenico Bigordi, was a Florentine painter of 1449–1494 whose frescoes, including the Tornabuoni Chapel cycle, portrayed citizens of his day; Michelangelo trained in his workshop.

Domenico Veneziano

Domenico Veneziano, born Domenico di Bartolomeo da Venezia in Venice about 1410, was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence, known for luminous color and perspective in landscape.

Fra Bartolomeo

Fra Bartolomeo (1472–1517), also written Fra Bartolommeo and known before his religious profession as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian painter and Dominican friar, one of the leading Florentine painters of the early 16th century.

Giovanni Battista Moroni

Giovanni Battista Moroni (about 1521-1578) was an Italian Lombard Renaissance painter and the leading portrait specialist of sixteenth-century Lombardy, known for portraits of unusual psychological realism, including The Tailor.

Giovanni di Paolo

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) was an Italian painter and illuminator of Siena, active there from about 1420 until his death in 1482.

Lavinia Fontana

Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter of Bologna and Rome, one of the first European women to sustain a long professional career on public commissions, including altarpieces.

Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556 or 1557) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who worked mainly outside Venice, in Treviso, Bergamo, and the Marches.

Luca Signorelli

Luca Signorelli, born Luca d'Egidio di Ventura and called Luca da Cortona, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, celebrated for the Last Judgement frescoes at Orvieto Cathedral.

Orcagna

Orcagna was the working name of Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, a Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect documented from 1343 to 1368, regarded as the leading Florentine artist of his time.

Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese, born Paolo Caliari (1528–1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school, one of the three great sixteenth-century masters of Venice alongside Titian and Tintoretto.

Parmigianino

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, 1503 to 1540) was an Italian painter and etcher from Parma, a leading originator of Mannerism known for the unfinished Madonna of the Long Neck.

Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) was an Italian Renaissance painter of Florence, known for inventive mythological panels, religious altarpieces, and portraits; he trained under Cosimo Rosselli.

Pietro Lorenzetti

Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280, Siena – probably 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and elder brother of Ambrogio, whose Passion cycle at Assisi is among the major achievements of fourteenth-century Italian painting.

Pontormo

Pontormo, the working name of Jacopo Carucci (1494–1556), was a Florentine painter and principal founder of Mannerism, best known for the Capponi Chapel Deposition in Florence and the Visitation at Carmignano.

Qiu Ying

Qiu Ying (仇英) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter of humble origins, one of the Four Masters of Ming, known for blue-green landscapes and fine figure painting.

Rosso Fiorentino

Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, 1494–1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter, born in Florence, known for the Volterra Deposition and for leading the decoration of Fontainebleau.

Sebastiano del Piombo

Sebastiano del Piombo, born Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian painter who trained in Venice and moved to Rome in 1511, fusing Venetian color with Michelangelo's style.

Simone Martini

Simone Martini, born in Siena around 1284 and died in Avignon in 1344, was an Italian painter of the Sienese school known for his 1333 Annunciation in the Uffizi.

Taddeo Gaddi

Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300 – 1366) was a Florentine painter and godson of Giotto, known for the frescoes of the Baroncelli Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence.