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Leonardo Da Vinci's baptism record. Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"), [9] [10] [c] was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, 20 miles from Florence.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌ k ær ə ˈ v æ dʒ i oʊ /, US: /-ˈ v ɑː dʒ (i) oʊ /; Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 [2] – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The title of the painting is spelled in Italian as Monna Lisa (mona being a vulgarity in Italian), which is rare in English, [21] [22] [23] where it is traditionally spelled Mona. [ 24 ] Lisa del Giocondo was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany , and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. [ 25 ]
Giotto di Bondone (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267 [a] – January 8, 1337), [2] [3] known mononymously as Giotto [b], was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. [7]
Novecento movement, group of Italian artists, formed in 1922 in Milan, that advocated a return to the great Italian representational art of the past. The founding members of the Novecento ( Italian : 20th-century) movement were the critic Margherita Sarfatti and seven artists: Anselmo Bucci , Leonardo Dudreville , Achille Funi , Gian Emilio ...
Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born. [3]
Duccio di Buoninsegna (UK: / ˈ d uː tʃ i oʊ / DOO-chee-oh, [1] Italian: [ˈduttʃo di ˌbwɔninˈseɲɲa]; c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319), commonly known as just Duccio, was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in ...