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An 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, in 1532, and became one of the first Renaissance women to receive an apprenticeship in the arts, hers was with painters Bernardino Campi…
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 MoreArtemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 – c.1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation after Caravaggio. In an era when female…
Read MoreMichelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571? – 18 July 1610?) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 (1595?)…
Read MoreLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo da vˈvint[i]; April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician,…
Read MoreAmedeo Clemente Modigliani (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈdɛo modiʎˈʎani]; July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he…
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