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Michelangelo
Born in 1475 in Caprese, Tuscany, Michelangelo briefly trained in Domenico Ghirlandaio’s workshop before catching ...
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Pietro Perugino
Born in 1446 in Città della Pieve, in Umbria, he trained in Verrocchio’s Florentine workshop ...
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Sandro Botticelli
Born in 1445 in Florence, he trained in Fra Filippo Lippi’s workshop, inheriting his master’s ...
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Raphael
Born in 1483 in Urbino, Raphael trained in Perugino’s workshop, absorbing his master’s clarity and ...
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Titian
Born around 1488 in Pieve di Cadore, he trained in Venice under Giovanni Bellini, where ...
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Donatello
A Florentine sculptor, Donatello travelled to Rome with his friend Brunelleschi to study ancient ruins, ...
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Trained as a goldsmith, Brunelleschi competed against Lorenzo Ghiberti in 1401 for the commission of ...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Born in 1452 in Vinci, he entered Andrea del Verrocchio’s Florentine workshop as a young ...
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Lorenzo de' Medici
Cosimo’s grandson, he took charge of the Florentine government in 1469 alongside his brother Giuliano, ...
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Pope Sixtus IV
Born in 1414 near Savona, in Liguria, Francesco della Rovere entered the Franciscan order before ...
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Cosimo de' Medici
Born in 1389, he and his brother inherited the family bank founded by their father, ...
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Born in 1448 in Florence, the son of a goldsmith who specialized in garlands, from ...
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Pope Julius II
Born in 1443 near Savona, in Liguria, Giuliano della Rovere owed his ecclesiastical career to ...
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Angelo Poliziano
Born in 1454 in Montepulciano, which gave him his name, he lost his father young, ...
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Giovanni Bellini
The son of the painter Jacopo Bellini and brother of Gentile Bellini, he began in ...
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Marsilio Ficino
Born in 1433 near Figline Valdarno, he came to Cosimo de’ Medici’s attention as a ...
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Piero della Francesca
A native of Sansepolcro, in Tuscany, he trained in Florence as an assistant to Domenico ...
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Alfonso I d'Este
The son of Ercole I d’Este, he succeeded his father as Duke of Ferrara in ...
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Andrea Mantegna
Trained in Padua in the workshop of Francesco Squarcione, he married Nicolosia Bellini, sister of ...
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Andrea del Verrocchio
Trained as a goldsmith before establishing himself as a sculptor and painter, he ran one ...
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Donato Bramante
Born near Urbino, he may have trained under Piero della Francesca before spending more than ...
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Fra Angelico
He entered the Dominican order at the convent of Fiesole under the name Fra Giovanni, ...
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Isabella d'Este
The daughter of Ercole I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and sister of Alfonso I d’Este ...
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
A sculptor and goldsmith, Lorenzo Ghiberti won the competition for the Florence Baptistery doors in ...
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Luca Signorelli
Born in 1441, he trained under Piero della Francesca, from whom he took a rigorous ...
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Masaccio
Nicknamed Masaccio to distinguish him from his collaborator Masolino da Panicale, he rediscovered and extended, ...
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Pico della Mirandola
Born in 1463 in Mirandola, where his family ruled a small lordship, he quickly mastered ...
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Alfonso Lombardi
Active in Bologna in the early sixteenth century, he specialised in sculpted portraiture in terracotta ...
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Andrea della Robbia
Luca della Robbia’s nephew, he trained under him and inherited his glazed terracotta technique, which ...
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Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
A nephew of the architects Giuliano da Sangallo and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, he ...
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Trained as a goldsmith in the family workshop he shared with his brother Piero, he ...
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Baldassare Peruzzi
Born in Siena, he trained there before moving to Rome in the early 1500s, where ...
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Benozzo Gozzoli
A goldsmith’s apprentice in Lorenzo Ghiberti’s workshop, where he worked on the doors of the ...
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Correggio
Born around 1489 in the small town of Correggio near Parma, from which he took ...
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Cosimo Rosselli
Born in 1439 in Florence, he ran an active workshop, though one whose standing never ...
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Federico da Montefeltro
Born in 1422, he became one of the most sought-after condottieri in Italy, hiring out ...
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Filippino Lippi
The son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who introduced him to painting at an ...
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Fra Filippo Lippi
Orphaned as a young child, he entered the Carmelite convent of Santa Maria del Carmine ...
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Francesco Francia
Trained as a goldsmith and medal engraver, work he continued at the Bologna mint even ...
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Giorgione
Born probably around 1477 in Castelfranco Veneto, he trained, like Titian, in the workshop of ...
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Giotto
According to tradition recorded by Vasari, the young Giotto, tending sheep in the Tuscan countryside, ...
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Giovanni II Bentivoglio
Born in 1443, he took control of Bologna in 1463 and ruled the city as ...
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Luca della Robbia
Trained as a stone sculptor, he made his name in the 1430s with the marble ...
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Ludovico Sforza
The son of Francesco Sforza and known as “il Moro”, he governed the Duchy of ...
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Michelozzo
Trained as a sculptor, he partnered with Donatello for over a decade in a shared ...
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Paolo Uccello
As a young man, Paolo di Dono, known as Paolo Uccello for his love of ...
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Paolo Veronese
Born in Verona, from which he took his name, he trained there before settling in ...
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Pietro Aretino
Born in Arezzo to a family of modest means, he spent a turbulent youth between ...
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Pinturicchio
A native of Perugia, he trained in Perugino’s circle, working alongside him in the 1480s ...
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Pope Alexander VI
Born in 1431 in XĂ tiva, in the Kingdom of Valencia, Rodrigo Borgia owed his rise ...
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Pope Leo X
Born in Florence in 1475, Giovanni de’ Medici was the second son of Lorenzo the ...
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Tintoretto
The son of a Venetian dyer, or tintore, from which he took his nickname, he ...
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Baldassare Castiglione
Born in 1478 at Casatico, near Mantua, he served the courts of Milan and Mantua ...
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Beatrice d'Este
The daughter of Ercole I d’Este and Isabella d’Este’s younger sister, she was betrothed as ...
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Cimabue
Little is known of Cimabue’s training; he was active in Florence in the second half ...
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Domenico Veneziano
Despite his name, which points to Venetian origins about which little is actually known, it ...
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Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis
Born into a Milanese family of painters and miniaturists, he entered the service of the ...
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Giulio Romano
Born in Rome, he entered Raphael’s workshop at a young age and became his chief ...
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Leon Battista Alberti
Born in 1404 in Genoa, the illegitimate son of an exiled Florentine family, he studied ...
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Properzia de' Rossi
Born in Bologna in 1490, she first attracted attention for miniature reliefs carved into fruit ...
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Vittore Carpaccio
Working in the orbit of Giovanni Bellini, from whom he absorbed a sense of colour ...
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Vittoria Colonna
Born into the powerful Colonna family, she was betrothed in childhood, as was customary, to ...