List of Renaissance artists
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Renaissance artists started in the late 14th century (~1370) and includes famous painters and sculptors.

Primavera by Sandro Botticelli is a famous painting of the 1400s. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
Each artist is listed with their dates, place of birth, some places that they worked, their media (the type of artwork that they made), one or two most famous works and some art galleries where their works can be seen.
Renaissance artists: ItalianEdit
Name | Dates | Born | Worked | Media | Masterpiece | Museums |
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Brunelleschi | 1377–1446 | Florence | Florence | architect, sculptor in bronze |
Crucifix Santa Maria Novella, Florence |
Bargello |
Ghiberti | 1378–1455 | Florence | Florence | sculptor in bronze and marble |
The Baptistery Doors Florence |
Bargello |
Masolino da Panicale | c.1383–1447 | Panicale, Umbria |
Florence, Rome | fresco, tempera | Madonna with Child and St. Anne | National Gallery, London, National Gallery of Art D.C. |
Nanni di Banco | c.1384–1421 | Florence | Florence | sculptor in marble | The Four Crowned Martyrs, Orsanmichele, Florence | Bargello |
Donatello | c.1386–1466 | Florence | Florence, Padua | sculptor in bronze, wood and marble |
Gattemelata on Horseback Padua |
Bargello, Duomo Museo, Florence |
Fra Angelico | c.1395–1455 | Rupecanina, Tuscany |
Fiesole, Florence Rome |
fresco, tempera | Deposition of Christ National Museum of San Marco, Florence |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre; National Gallery of Art D.C.;Prado, Madrid |
Uccello | 1397–1475 | Tuscany | Florence | fresco, tempera | The Battle of San Romano Uffizi, Louvre and N.G. London |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre, Asmolean Museum, Oxford. |
Masaccio | 1401–1428 | San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany |
Florence | fresco, tempera | The Life of St Peter, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine Church, Florence |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London |
Filippo Lippi | 1406–1469 | Florence | Florence, Prato Spoleto |
fresco, tempera | The Life of the Virgin Spoleto Cathedral |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre, National Gallery of Art D.C. |
Piero della Francesca | c.1412–1492 | Sansepolcro Tuscany |
Arezzo, Florence Monterchi |
fresco, tempera | The History of the True Cross Church of San Francesco, Arezzo |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre |
Andrea del Castagno | c.1421–1457 | Castagno, Tuscany |
Florence | fresco, tempera | The Last Supper, refectory of Sant'Appollonia, Florence |
National Gallery of Art D.C. |
Gentile Bellini | 1429–1507 | Venice | Venice, Constantinople | oil painting | Scenes of the True Cross Accademia, Venice |
National Gallery, London, Accademia, Venice |
Antonello da Messina | c.1430–1479 | Messina, Sicily |
Naples, Venice, Sicily |
oil painting | The Sibiu Crucifixion Brukenthal, Romania |
Louvre, National Gallery, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; National Gallery of Art D.C. |
Mantegna | c.1431–1506 | Padua | Verona, Mantua, Rome |
fresco, tempera | The Marriage Chamber Ducale Palace, Mantua |
National Gallery, London; Hermitage, National Gallery of Art D.C. |
Verrocchio | c.1435–1488 | Florence | Florence | tempera sculptor in bronze |
The Pistoia Altarpiece, Pistoia Cathedral Colleoni on Horseback, Venice |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Bargello, Florence |
Botticelli | 1445–1510 | Tuscany | Florence, Rome | fresco, tempera | The Birth of Venus and Primevera, Uffizi |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre, National Gallery of Art D.C. |
Signorelli | c.1445–1523 | Cortona, Tuscany |
Cortona, Orvieto Rome, Arezzo |
fresco, tempera | Scenes of the Last Day Orvieto Cathedral |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Brera, Milan |
Perugino | 1446–1524 | Città della Pieve, Umbria |
Perugia, Florence, Rome |
fresco, tempera, oil painting |
Christ giving the Keys to Peter Sistine Chapel, Vatican City |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre, São Paulo Art Museum, Brazil |
Ghirlandaio | 1449–1494 | Florence | Florence, Rome | fresco, tempera | Lives of the Madonna and John the Baptist, S. Maria Novella, Florence |
Uffizi, National Gallery, London; Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
High RenaissanceEdit
Mannerism (Late Renaissance)Edit
Renaissance artists: Northern Europe and SpainEdit
Early RenaissanceEdit
Louvre, National Gallery, London;
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
1500sEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Diana Davies (editor), Harrap's Encyclopedia of Art and Artists, (1990), ISBN 0-245-54692-8
- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, (1568), 1965 edition, trans George Bull, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-044164-6
- Frederick Hartt, A History of Italian Renaissance Art, (1970) Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-500-23136-2
- Luciano Berti, Florence: the city and its art, (1971) Scala.
- Luciano Berti, The Ufizzi, (1971) Scala, Florence.