Exploring Italian Renaissance art
The artists, their works, and the world that shaped them.
Discover the paintings, sculpture, and ideas of the Renaissance through the lives of its artists and the world around them.
Artists, patrons, and the people they painted. Explore the stories behind some of the Renaissance’s most familiar works.
Browse the articlesLuca della Robbia (1399-1482) is the most well-known member of his artistic family due to his development of colored, glazed terracotta sculptures using his own secret workshop formula. An Early Italian…
The Baptistery Door Competitions Florentine-born and goldsmth-trained, Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455) is the Early Renaissance sculptor who won the second competition in 1403 for a commission to create gilded bronze doors for…
While Leonardo da Vinci surpassed his master Verrocchio in fine art painting as a young man, Verrocchio’s true genius was as a sculptor. In 1479 Verrocchio began work on his famous…
The famous Venetian man who was nicknamed Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) worked as a painter during the late Italian Renaissance. While he was also known to art historians by the nickname of…
Venetian painter, Jacopo Bellini (c.1400-1470), was head of a family of painters including sons Gentile and Giovanni. An apprentice to International Gothic style painter to Gentile da Fabriano, Bellini’s productive years…
FLORENCE, Italy, 7/31/2007 – Two of the Italian Renaissance’s most prominent Neoplatonist philosophers have been exhumed to solve a centuries old murder mystery. Members of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Florentine circle, Pico…
The rise of Italian Renaissance art can be traced generally from its beginnings toward the end of the thirteenth century with the work of Florentine artist Giotto di Bondone. Italian Renaissance…
Giulio Romano (ca. 1499-1546) was an Italian Renaissance painter working in the Mannerist style of the sixteenth century. Giulio Romano’s birth name was Giulio di Pietro de’Gianuzzi or Giulio Pippi. As…
Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone was born in 1267 in Florence. Giotto di Bondone is lauded as the Trecento artist responsible for the renewal of Western figurative arts with the…
Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo in 1511. At the age of 16, Cardinal Silvio Passerini sent him to study art in Florence where he became acquainted with famous artists like…
