Biography of Alberto Giacometti
(1901 - 1966) Alberto Giacometti, the Surrealist sculptor known for his nervous, elongated forms, was born in Stampa, Switzerland. Giacometti…
Biography of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
Orazio Gentileschi and his daughter Artemisia were from the city of Pisa. Artemisia was a pioneer as a female painter…
Biography and art works of Giorgio De Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was born in Greece in 1888, to Italian parents. Although he was the son of a railroad…
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.