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…

Guido 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…

(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…

Canaletto, whose real name was Giovanni Antonio Canal, was a Venetian painter considered one of the most important artists in his city’s history. He was born to a family of…

Sofonisba 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…

Giovanni 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…

Bartolomeo 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…

Giuseppe 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…

Luca 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.…

Cesare 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…

Luca 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,…

Giovanni 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…

Niccolo 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…

Giuseppe 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…

Giovanni 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…

Tancredi Parmeggiani, known as Tancredi (1927-1964), was an Italian abstract expressionist painter during the 20th century. Tancredi started his artistic training in 1946 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in…

Alberto 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…

Pietro 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…

Raphael was one of the leading artists of the Renaissance. Although best known for his paintings, He was also an architect, urban planner, archeologist, and historian. Born in Urbino, Italy,…

Giovanni 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…