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1 Artists and architects. 2 Mathematicians. 3 Writers. 4 Philosophers. 5 Composers. 6 Dancing masters. ... Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man.
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...
James Rosenquist (1933–2017), American artist; Alexander Roslin (1718–1798), Swedish portrait painter; Toros Roslin (1210–1270), Armenian manuscript illuminator; Alex Ross (born 1970), American book artist and designer; Bob Ross (1942–1995), American painter and art instructor; Clifford Ross (born 1952), American painter, sculptor and ...
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Giorgio Vasari [a] (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers ...
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. ... (1350–1396) [10] Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300–1366) Enrico Gamba (1831 ...
Garrard, Mary D., Angouissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist, Renaissance Quarterly 24, 1994. Zwanger, Meryl, Women and Art in the Renaissance, in: Sister, Columbia University 1995/6. Judith Brown. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Women And Men In History). 1998; Letizia Panizza, Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.