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Fausto Zonaro (1854-1929) was an Italian painter known for his history scenes and landscapes. Zonaro was born and raised in Masi, Italy. He got his artistic training at the Cignaroli…
Read MoreGuido di Pietro, or Fra Angelico as known after his death, was born around 1395 in Vicchio di Mugello of Florence, Italy. Giorgio Vassari, the influential writer of Lives of…
Read MoreSirani was born and lived in Bologna, a city that was known for its liberal views of women and for its women artists. A painter, and a printmaker, Sirani was…
Read MoreMoroni, a late Renaissance painter, is best known for his extremely realistic portraits of local noblemen and clergy.
Read MoreAn Italian poster artist who lived much of his life in Paris. He was a leading artist, poster designer and caricaturist there.
Read More(1600-1670) A Baroque painter of the seventeenth century, Giovanna Garzoni was one of the first woman artists to practice still life painting. She was likely influenced by the work of…
Read More(1578 – 1630) The Milanese painter Fede Galizia was recognized as early as twelve years old as a prodigious artist. She was the daughter of a painter who presumably also…
Read MoreLavinia Fontana was an Italian portraitist popular among noblewomen in Bologna and later in Rome where she worked in the court of Pope Paul V. Her family relied on her…
Read MoreFormally canonized in 1712 as the patron saint of artists, Catherine of Bologna was a nun, writer, and mystic as well as an artist. Many of Saint Catherine’s works were…
Read MoreAlessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged…
Read MoreSofonisba Anguissola was born in Cremona, Italy around 1532, and became one of the first Renaissance women to receive an apprenticeship in the arts, hers was with painters Bernardino Campi…
Read MoreGiovanni Benedetto Castiglione was born on March 23rd, 1609, in Genoa, Italy. He started his studies in art by looking into the work of Peter Paul Rubens. He got instruction…
Read MoreBartolomeo Bettera was born in 1639 in Bergamo, Italy. While his life is mostly undocumented, scholars know he was a pupil of the priest-painter Evaristo Baschenis. Baschenis studied the works…
Read MoreGiuseppe de Nittis was an Italian Impressionist artist who primarily worked in France during the 19th century. He was born on February 25, 1846, in Barletta, Italy, and received his…
Read MoreLuca Carlevariis (1663-1730) was an Italian landscape painter who mainly painted the cityscapes of Venice at the turn of the 17th century. Carlevariis was born and raised in Udine, Italy.…
Read MoreCesare Laurenti was an Italian artist born in Mesola, Italy in 1854. He began his education in Padua, and he studied with Luigi Ceccon. Laurenti moved to Naples to work…
Read MoreLuca Signorelli was born sometime between 1441 and 1450 in Cortona, in the Republic of Florence. He was under the tutelage of Piero della Francesca in the 1460s, learning geometry,…
Read MoreGiovanni di Paolo was born in 1403 in Siena, Italy. He studied early Renaissance Italian painters and was potentially a pupil of Taddeo di Bartolo. To the dismay of emerging…
Read MoreNiccolo Cecconi (1835-1902) was an Italian painter born in Florence, Italy. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence, where he formalized his art education. The Italian Baroque style…
Read MoreGiuseppe Pennasilico (1860-1941) was an Italian painter during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Pennasilico was born in Naples, Italy. Scholars do…
Read MoreGiovanni Battista Tiepolo (Giambattista Tiepolo), born on March 5th, 1696, in Venice, was the outstanding eighteenth-century master of the Grand Manner (a return to the styles of the ancient Greeks…
Read MoreAlberto Pasini (1826-1899) was an Italian painter and illustrator. He specialized in the theme of landscape and was known for being an orientalist. Orientalism was the name for a style…
Read MoreGiovanni 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…
Read MorePietro Paolini, known as “il Lucchese,” was born in 1603 to a prominent family in Lucca, Italy. At age 16, his father sent him to Rome to study in the…
Read MoreGiovanni Battista Piranesi, also known as Giambattista Piranesi, was an 18th-century Italian-Venetian architect, printmaker, and art theorist. He produced thousands of prints of classical and modern Roman buildings, beginning the…
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