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Francesco Zuccarelli (1702–1788), painter; native to Bologna, he served as President of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and later lived in Florence Federico Zuccari (c. 1540/41–1609), painter; spent much of his working life in Rome and abroad
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 .
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando(1860–1952), Prime Minister of Italy from October 1917 to June 1919. Representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. Known as "Premier of Victory" for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I; Giacomo Matteotti (1885–1924), socialist politician.
Giorgione (c. 1477 – 1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice. Carlo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793), Along with Luigi Pirandello, Goldoni is probably the most famous name in Italian theatre, in his country and abroad.
Paolo Caliari (1528 – 19 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (/ ˌ v ɛr ə ˈ n eɪ z eɪ,-z i / VERR-ə-NAY-zay, -zee, US also /-eɪ s i /-see; Italian: [ˈpaːolo veroˈneːze,-eːse]), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (Venetian: Zorzi; 1477–78 [1] or 1473–74 [2] – 17 September 1510), [3] known as Giorgione (UK: / ˌ dʒ ɔːr dʒ i ˈ oʊ n eɪ,-n i / JOR-jee-OH-nay, -nee, US: / ˌ dʒ ɔːr ˈ dʒ oʊ n i / jor-JOH-nee; Italian: [dʒorˈdʒoːne]; Venetian: Zorzon), was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties.
Technically, People didn’t name anyone the sexiest man (or couple) alive in the year of 1994. However, in 2015, the magazine righted that wrong. Then the editorial director, Jess Cagle ...
Venice in the 1730s. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Casanova.Giacomo was the first of six children, followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783).