Biography and art works of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, the epitome of the Renaissance man, was born in 1452 in Vinci, a village near Florence and…
Biography and art works of Michelangelo Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, revolutionary naturalist painter, was born in Caravaggio near Milan, the son of a mason in 1573.…
Biography and art works of Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canale, known as Canaletto, was born in 1697 in Venice where his father was a painter of theatrical…
Biography and art works of Il Bronzino
Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, called Il Bronzino, was born in 1503 in Monticello, outside Florence. He was first a student…
Biography and art works of Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni, Futurist theoretician, painter, and sculptor, was born in 1882 in Reggio Calabria and was a graduate of the…
Biography and art works of Beato Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar, was perhaps the most important painter of Renaissance Florence.