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Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
Titian
Titian was an Italian painter known for his versatile painting style, which allowed him to create deep, vibrant color and texture in his works. He played a major role in defining the Venetian Renaissance painting and is considered one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance.
Donatello
Donatello was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance. He is known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspective illusionism.
The Birth of Venus
A painting by Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown.
Raphael
Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Tintoretto
An Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Venetian School. The embattled Tintoretto was known for the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork.
The Last Judgement
A fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering two walls of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It's a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.
Primavera
Also known as Allegory of Spring, is a 1482 painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.
Hieronymus Bosch
A Dutch/Netherlandish painter and draughtsman. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes, and illustrations of moral and religious concepts and narratives.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
The School of Athens
It's a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
Giorgione
Giorgione was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance from Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over 30. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work.
Masaccio
Masaccio, born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting.
Boticelli
Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, famous for large-scale religious and mythological scenes, as well as portraits.
The Last Supper
A late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It is a depiction of the last supper of Jesus with his apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John, 13:21.
Piero della Francesca
An Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays, he is chiefly appreciated for his art.
The Arnolfini Portrait
Also known as The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, or The Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, is a 1434 oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck.
The Tempest
It's a Renaissance painting by the Italian master Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508. Even after extensive study, the exact subject of the work remains unresolved, but it is the mood of the painting that has made it famous.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
It's a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939.
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