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But he was the leading painter of history painting in the Medici court, although his work is now generally seen as straining after the impact that Michelangelo's work has, and failing to achieve it. This had become a common fault in Florentine painting by the decades after 1530, as many painters tried to emulate the giants of the High Renaissance.
Domenico Beceri. Luigi Bechi. Ernesto Bellandi. Lippo di Benivieni. Pietro Antonio Bernabei. Antonio Berti (painter) Giorgio Berti. Sigismondo Betti. Domenico Bettini.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci[ b ] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [ 3 ] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made ...
Sandro Botticelli. Probable self-portrait of Botticelli, in his Adoration of the Magi (1475). Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445[1] – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli (/ ˌbɒtɪˈtʃɛli / BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]) or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed. Tradition says that Giotto was born in a farmhouse, perhaps at Colle di Romagnano or Romignano. [11] Since 1850, a tower house in nearby Colle Vespignano has borne a plaque claiming the honor of his birthplace, an assertion that is commercially publicized.
Brancacci Chapel, Florence. The Tribute Money is a fresco by the Italian Early Renaissance painter Masaccio, located in the Brancacci Chapel of the basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. Painted in the 1420s, it is widely considered among Masaccio's best work, and a vital part of the development of Renaissance art. [1][2]
The Battle of San Romano. The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the Battle of San Romano between Florentine and Sienese forces in 1432. They are significant as revealing the development of linear perspective in early Italian Renaissance painting, and are ...
Cimabue. Santa Trinita Maestà, 1280–1285, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Giovanni Cimabue (Italian: [tʃimaˈbuːe]), [1] c. 1240 – 1302, [2] was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence. He was also known as Cenni di Pepo[3] or Cenni di Pepi.[4] Although heavily influenced by Byzantine models, Cimabue is generally regarded as ...