A comprehensive biography of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, detailing his life, ministry, and vision for the Catholic…

Explore the ten most famous Italian opera composers, their masterpieces, and their influence on opera history, from Verdi and Puccini…

Discover the life and works of Giuseppe Verdi, the legendary Italian opera composer behind La Traviata, Aida, and Rigoletto, and…

Discover the life and operas of Giacomo Puccini, the legendary Italian composer known for masterpieces like La Bohème, Tosca, and…

Amedeo Modigliani was born in Italy in the Livorno ghetto in 1884. His father, a ruined banker, died young and…

Michelangelo Buonarroti Born in Caprese, near Florence, in 1475, this magnificent artist and sculptor transformed blocks of marble into figures…

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – December 13, 1466), better known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance…

Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroti Simone was born in Caprese in Tuscany in 1475. The son of a…

Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence in 1445. The most humanistic of the Renaissance painters, he was at first apprenticed…

Paolo Uccello (born Paolo di Dono in 1397) was a Florentine painter who was notable for his pioneering work on…

Jacopo (Robusti) Tintoretto, born in 1518, was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last…

Gianbattista Tiepolo, as a youth, was apprenticed to Gregorio Lazzarini, a mediocre but fashionable painter known for his elaborately theatrical,…

[caption id="attachment_1428" align="alignnone" width="640"] Rossetti reading proofs of Ballads and Sonnets at 16 Cheyne Walk, by Henry Treffry Dunn (1882)[/caption]…

Raphael, the last of the three greatest painters of the Renaissance, was born Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino, in the province…

Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone, known as Masaccio, was not only the greatest Florentine painter of the early fifteenth century,…

Marino Marini was born in Pistoia in 1901. He began his fine arts career in Florence, where he studied painting,…

(1475 - 1532) Bernardino Luini was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle, a conservative painter who took "as much…

Fra Filippo Lippi work was widely respected in his time, and he is known today as an innovative and accomplished…

Giotto di Bondone, the father of modern painting and one of the greatest figures in the history of Western art,…

Giorgio Giorgione was born Giorgio Barbarelli in Castelfranco in 1477. Very little is known about this master who died of…

(1901 - 1966) Alberto Giacometti, the Surrealist sculptor known for his nervous, elongated forms, was born in Stampa, Switzerland. Giacometti…

Orazio Gentileschi and his daughter Artemisia were from the city of Pisa. Artemisia was a pioneer as a female painter…

Giorgio de Chirico was born in Greece in 1888, to Italian parents. Although he was the son of a railroad…

Leonardo da Vinci, the epitome of the Renaissance man, was born in 1452 in Vinci, a village near Florence and…

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, revolutionary naturalist painter, was born in Caravaggio near Milan, the son of a mason in 1573.…

Giovanni Antonio Canale, known as Canaletto, was born in 1697 in Venice where his father was a painter of theatrical…

Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, called Il Bronzino, was born in 1503 in Monticello, outside Florence. He was first a student…

Umberto Boccioni, Futurist theoretician, painter, and sculptor, was born in 1882 in Reggio Calabria and was a graduate of the…

Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar, was perhaps the most important painter of Renaissance Florence.

Movies with Ugo Tognazzi Because of his father's profession, inspector of an insurance company, Ugo Tognazzi spent his childhood in…

Alberto Sordi aka Albertone, was a beloved Italian actor and film director. He was also the voice of Oliver Hardy…

Marcello Mastroianni was an Italian actor made famous by the movies of Fellini such as La Dolce Vita and 8½.…

Anna Magnani was a beloved Academy Award-winning Italian actress, with stage experience. The Rose Tattoo with Burt Lancaster earned her…

Sophia Loren is a motion picture and stage, Academy Award-winning actress, widely considered to be the most popular Italian performer.

A unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire, Fellini's films are deeply personal visions of society, often portraying people…

Vittorio De Sica was one of the world's most influential filmmakers, and as an actor he starred in 150 movies,…

Roberto Benigni is an Academy Award-winning Italian film and television actor, writer and director. He won an Oscar for Life…