List of Italian painters

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, on which he had a formative influence. Even in his own lifetime Caravaggio was enigmatic, fascinating, and dangerous. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600, and never afterwards lacked commissions or patrons, yet handled his success extremely badly. The very earliest published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his ...

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• Caravaggio - Biography
• Caravaggio - Early life 1571-1592
• Caravaggio - Rome 1592-1600
• Caravaggio - 'Most Famous Painter in Rome' 1600-1606
• Caravaggio - Exile and death 1606-1610
• Caravaggio - Caravaggio the artist
• Caravaggio - The birth of the Baroque
• Caravaggio - The Caravaggisti
• Caravaggio - The death and rebirth of a reputation
• Caravaggio - Modern tradition
• Caravaggio - Chronology of major works

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598, Naples – November 28, 1680, Rome) was a towering baroque artist in 17th century Baroque Rome, where he is known mainly for his often overlapping skills as a sculptor and architect. He was also a painter, draftsman, designer of stage sets, fireworks displays, and funeral trappings. Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Early Works. Bernini was born in Naples to a Florentine family and accompanied his father Pietro Bernini, a capable Mannerist sculp ...

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• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Early Works
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Architecture
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Fountains in Rome
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Marble Portraiture
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Other works
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - List of Works
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Sculpture
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Paintings
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Trivia

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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (Correggio, Italy August 1489 – March 5, 1534) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. It is not alway possible to identify a stylistic link between his paintings. Correggio is an enigmatically eclectic provincial painter; he appears to have emerged out of no major apprenticeship, and had little immediate influence in apprenticed successors, but his works are now considered to have been revolutionary and influential to subsequent artists. A century after Correggio's death, his work was well kno ...

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• Antonio da Correggio - Loves of Jupiter
• Antonio da Correggio - Anthology of Works
• Antonio da Correggio - External link

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Giotto's earliest credited major work is the fresco cycle depicting the life of St. Francis in the Upper Church of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi though there are some disputes of authorship. The cycle shows the influence on Giotto of Roman Art as well as his attempt to assimilate the prevalent fashion for French Gothic types. According to Vasari Giotto's depiction of St. Francis caused some controversy due to its sculptural nature making the Saint to much of the world. The Crucifixion in Santa Maria Novella in Florence is one of the major early works and clearly distinguishes Giotto's treatmen ...

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Giotto di Bondone, Giotto di Bondone - Giotto's O, Giotto di Bondone - Major Works, Giotto di Bondone - Later Life, Giotto di Bondone - List of Famous works, Giotto di Bondone - Reference

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According to all the accounts which have reached us, few men on whom the distinction of beatification has been conferred could have deserved it more nobly than Fra Giovanni. He led a holy and self-denying life, shunning all advancement, and was a brother to the poor; no man ever saw him angered. He painted with unceasing diligence, treating none but sacred subjects; he never retouched or altered his work, probably with a religious feeling that such as divine providence allowed the thing to come, such it should remain. He was wont to say that ...

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Fra Angelico, Fra Angelico - Biography, Fra Angelico - Early works, Fra Angelico - Rome, Fra Angelico - Cause for canonization

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In 1520 he resumed work in Florence, and executed the Faith and Charity (Caritas) in the cloister of the Scalzo. These were succeeded by the Dance of the Daughter of Herodias, the "Beheading of the Baptist," the "Presentation of his head to Herod," an allegory of Hope, the "Apparition of the Angel to Zacharias" (1523), and the monochrome of the Visitation. This last was painted in the autumn of 1524, after Andrea had returned from Luco in Mugello, to where an outbreak of bubonic plague in Florence had driven him a ...

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Andrea del Sarto, Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training, Andrea del Sarto - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France, Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies, Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life, Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy, Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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Caravaggio - Early life 1571-1592. Caravaggio’s father Fermo Merisi was a household administrator and architect-decorator to Francesco Sforza, Marchese of Caravaggio, a town some thirty kilometers from Milan. His mother, Lucia Aratori, came from a propertied family of the same district. None of the Merisi children — Michelangelo was Lucia's eldest — are listed on the baptismal records from Caravaggio, and all were probably born in Milan, where the Marchese had his court and where their father lived. In 1576 ...

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Caravaggio, Caravaggio - Biography, Caravaggio - Early life 1571-1592, Caravaggio - Rome 1592-1600, Caravaggio - 'Most Famous Painter in Rome' 1600-1606, Caravaggio - Exile and death 1606-1610, Caravaggio - Caravaggio the artist, Caravaggio - The birth of the Baroque, Caravaggio - The Caravaggisti, Caravaggio - The death and rebirth of a reputation, Caravaggio - Modern tradition, Caravaggio - Chronology of major works

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Michelangelo was born near Arezzo, in Caprese, Tuscany, Italy in 1475. His father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Simoni, was the resident magistrate in Caprese and podestà of Chiusi. His mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. As genealogies of the day indicated that the Buonarroti descended from Countess Matilda of Tuscany, the family was considered minor nobility. However, Michelangelo was raised in Florence and later lived with a sculptor and his wife in the town of Settignano where his father owned a marble quarry and ...

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Michelangelo, Michelangelo - Michelangelo's life history, Michelangelo - Overview, Michelangelo - Early life in Florence, Michelangelo - Under Pope Julius II in Rome: Sistine ceiling, Michelangelo - Under Medici Popes in Florence, Michelangelo - Later works in Rome, Michelangelo - Last years, Michelangelo - Michelangelo the architect, Michelangelo - Laurentian Library, Michelangelo - Medici Chapel, Michelangelo - Palazzo Farnese, Michelangelo - St Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo - Michelangelo at the Campidoglio, Michelangelo - Michelangelo the man, Michelangelo - Love life, Michelangelo - Works summary, Michelangelo - Sculpture, Michelangelo - Painting, Michelangelo - Compare

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From Mannerism onward there are more and more art movements representing tides of opinion pushing in various different directions, causing art philosophy over the centuries from about the 16th century onward to gradually fragment into the characteristic isms of Modern art. The work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio sometimes simply called Caravaggio (1571-1610) stands on its own as one of the most original and influential artists who ever lived. He did something completely contraversial and new. He painted figu ...

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Art of Italy, Art of Italy - The Etruscans, Art of Italy - The Roman Period, Art of Italy - Byzantine Period, Art of Italy - Gothic Period, Art of Italy - The Renaissance, Art of Italy - Mannerism, Art of Italy - Modernity, Art of Italy - Baroque, Art of Italy - Rococo, Art of Italy - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art of Italy - Expressionism, Art of Italy - Cubism Futurism and Dada, Art of Italy - Metaphysical painting and Surrealism, Art of Italy - Classical Modernism of the 20th Century, Art of Italy - Modernists: see also:, Art of Italy - Post-Modern Italian art

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Sculpture. Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni (c. 1612) - Marble, life-size, Santa Prassede, Rome Martyrdom of St Lawrence (1614-1615) - Marble, 66 x 108 cm, Contini Bonacossi Collection, Florence The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun (1615) - Marble, Galleria Borghese, Rome Damned Soul - Palazzo di Spagna, Rome Blessed Soul - Palazzo di Spag ...

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Early Works, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Fountains in Rome, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Marble Portraiture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Other works, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - List of Works, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Sculpture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Paintings, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Trivia

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The sources for Paolo Uccello’s life are few: Giorgio Vasari’s biography, written 75 years after Paolo’s death, and a few contemporary official documents. Uccello was born Paolo di Dono in Florence in 1397. His father, Dono di Paolo, was a barber-surgeon from Pratovecchio near Arezzo, his mother’s name was Antonia. From 1407 was apprenticed to Lorenzo Ghiberti’s workshop, the premier centre for Florentine art at the time, where he began a lifelong friendship with Donatello. By 1424 he wa ...

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Paolo Uccello, Paolo Uccello - Life, Paolo Uccello - Works

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Leonardo da Vinci - Personal life. The first known biography of Leonardo was published in 1550 by Giorgio Vasari who wrote Vite de' piu eccelenti architettori, pittori e scultori italiani ("The lives of the most excellent Italian architects, painters and sculptors"), and later became an independent painter in Florence. Most of the information collected by Vasari was from first-hand accounts of Leonardo's contemporaries, (Vasari was only a child when Leonardo died), and it remains the fi ...

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Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci - Life, Leonardo da Vinci - Personal life, Leonardo da Vinci - Professional life, Leonardo da Vinci - Art, Leonardo da Vinci - Early works in Florence 1452-1482, Leonardo da Vinci - Milan 1482-1499, Leonardo da Vinci - Nomadic Period - Italy and France 1499-1519, Leonardo da Vinci - List of artworks, Leonardo da Vinci - Science and engineering, Leonardo da Vinci - Anatomy, Leonardo da Vinci - Inventions and engineering, Leonardo da Vinci - His notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci - In fiction, Leonardo da Vinci - Notes

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In addition to his religious art, he produced a set of 4 mythological masterpiece paintings centered around the Loves of Jupiter as itemized in Ovid's Metamorphosis. The set was commisioned by Federico Gonzaga II of Mantua and intended as a gift to the visiting Holy Roman Emperor Charles I; thus, within a few years of completion(c 1532), these paintings had left Italy, and thus were likely not influential to subsequent painting in Italy. They are stunning and elegantly sensous. "Leda and the Swan", now in the Staatliche Museen ...

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Antonio da Correggio, Antonio da Correggio - Loves of Jupiter, Antonio da Correggio - Anthology of Works, Antonio da Correggio - External link

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Before the end of 1516 a Pietà of his composition, and afterwards a Madonna, were sent to the French court. They led to invitation of Sarto to come to the court of François I in 1518. He journeyed to Paris towards June of that year, along with his pupil Andrea Squarzzella, leaving his wife in Florence. Lucrezia, however, wrote urging his return to Italy. The king assented, but only on the understanding that his absence from France was to be short; and he entrusted Andrea with a sum of money to be expended in purchasing works ...

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Andrea del Sarto, Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training, Andrea del Sarto - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France, Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies, Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life, Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy, Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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This celebrated painter of the Florentine school was born in either 1486 or 1487 one of four children to Agnolo, a tailor (sarto). Since 1677 some have attributed the surname Vannucchi with little documentation. By 1494 Andrea apprenticed to a goldsmith, and then to a skillful woodcarver and inferior painter named Gian Barile, with whom he remained until 1498. According to Vasari, he then apprenticed to Pi ...

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Andrea del Sarto, Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training, Andrea del Sarto - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France, Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies, Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life, Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy, Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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It was Michelangelo who had introduced Vasari in 1524 to Andrea's studio. He is said to have thought very highly of Andrea's powers. Of those who initially followed his style in Florence, the most prominent would have been Jacopo Pontormo. In the Britannica account of del Sarto, the narrative of Crowe and Cavalcaselle, supplemented by Vasari, Lanzi and others followed. There are biographies by Biadi (1829), by ...

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Andrea del Sarto, Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training, Andrea del Sarto - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France, Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence, Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies, Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life, Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy, Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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Post-Modernism is a highly controversal label which generally refers to a period of time after the project(s) of modernism have ended and in which all time periods and styles are not necessarily separated anymore. Just as paints of different colours can be mixed on a pallette, so all the styles of antiquity, gothic, renaissance, baroque, expressionist, cubist, surrealist etc. can all be merged and produce hybrids which access and are informed by all the knowledge of art history. Nothing is positively forbidden. Even Bad art and Kitsch are part of the vocabulary employed to qu ...

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Art of Italy, Art of Italy - The Etruscans, Art of Italy - The Roman Period, Art of Italy - Byzantine Period, Art of Italy - Gothic Period, Art of Italy - The Renaissance, Art of Italy - Mannerism, Art of Italy - Modernity, Art of Italy - Baroque, Art of Italy - Rococo, Art of Italy - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art of Italy - Expressionism, Art of Italy - Cubism Futurism and Dada, Art of Italy - Metaphysical painting and Surrealism, Art of Italy - Classical Modernism of the 20th Century, Art of Italy - Modernists: see also:, Art of Italy - Post-Modern Italian art

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Bernini was born in Naples to a Florentine family and accompanied his father Pietro Bernini, a capable Mannerist sculptor himself, to Rome. Here the young prodigy's capabilities were soon noticed by the great painter Annibale Carracci and by the Pope Paul V himself, and Bernini could therefore begin work as an independent artist. His first works were inspired by Hellenistic sculpture of ancient Gree ...

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Early Works, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Fountains in Rome, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Marble Portraiture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Other works, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - List of Works, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Sculpture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Paintings, Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Trivia

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Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore, Gualfonda, Florence, 1487 - Florence, 1531) was a painter of the Italian Renaissance. Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training. This celebrated painter of the Florentine school was born in either 1486 or 1487 one of four children to Agnolo, a tailor (sarto). Since 1677 some have attributed the surname Vannucchi with little documentation. By 1494 Andrea apprenticed to a goldsmith, and then to a skillful woodcarver and in ...

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• Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training
• Andrea del Sarto - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence
• Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France
• Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence
• Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies
• Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life
• Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy
• Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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As the Renaissance had moved from formulaic depiction to a more natural observation of the figure, light and perspective, so the subsequent, Mannerist, period is marked by a move to forms conceived in the mind. Once the ideals of the Renaissance had had their effect artists such as Giulio Romano (ca 1499? to 1546) were able to introduce personal elements of subjectivity to their interpretation of visual forms. The perfection of perspective, light and realistic human figures can be thought of as impossible to improve upon unless ...

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Art of Italy, Art of Italy - The Etruscans, Art of Italy - The Roman Period, Art of Italy - Byzantine Period, Art of Italy - Gothic Period, Art of Italy - The Renaissance, Art of Italy - Mannerism, Art of Italy - Modernity, Art of Italy - Baroque, Art of Italy - Rococo, Art of Italy - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art of Italy - Expressionism, Art of Italy - Cubism Futurism and Dada, Art of Italy - Metaphysical painting and Surrealism, Art of Italy - Classical Modernism of the 20th Century, Art of Italy - Modernists: see also:, Art of Italy - Post-Modern Italian art

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