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Early Italian Renaissance

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Cosmè Tura
Cosimo

born: Ferrara, [now Italy]; about 1430
died: Ferrara,[now Italy]; 1495

 

Tura was court artist at the court of the Este dukes at Ferrara. He served both dukes: Borso and Ercole I.

 

 

 

Antonello da Messina
Antonello di Salvadore

born: Messina, Sicily [now Italy]; about 1430
died: Messina, Sicily [now Italy]; 19 February 1479

Messina: Christ

Christ at the Column[detail]
1475-1479
Louvre, Paris France

 

Four more Messina pictures. 

 

Gentile Bellini

born: Venice, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; about 1429
died: Venice, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; 23 February 1507

Less well known brother of Giovanni. His father was Jacobo Bellini, also an artist. His sister, Niccolosa, married the painter Andrea Mantegna.

 

 

 

Giovanni Bellini

born: Venice, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; 1430 (or 31)
died: Venice, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; 1516

Better known brother of Gentile. His father was Jacobo Bellini, also an artist. His sister, Niccolosa, married the painter Andrea Mantegna.

 

 

Bellini: Doge Leonardo Loredan

Doge Leonardo Loredan
1501-1504
National Gallery, London, England

Nine more Bellini pictures.

 

 

Andrea Mantegna

born: Isola di Carturo, Vicenza, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; 1431
died: Mantua, March of Mantua [now Italy]; 13 September 1506

 

Mantegna: Madonna of Victory

Madonna of Victory
1496
Louvre, Paris, France

 

Forty-four more Mantegna pictures with a small biography.
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Carlo Crivelli

born: Venice [now Italy]; about 1432
died: Camerino, Marches [now Italy]; about 1494

In 1457 Crivelli was convicted and given a prison term in Venice for seducing a married woman. Afterwards he left Venice, and apparently never returned. Crivelli was knighted in 1490 by Ferdinand II of Naples. He apparently had no students nor followers of his style.

 

 

Crivelli: Annunciation

Annunciation with St Emidius
1486
National Gallery, London, England

 

This picture provides proof that ET visited either around the time of Christ or sometime in the fifteenth century. Which makes sense when you realize that ET, the movie, is a retelling of the Christ story of love and redemption in a modern suburban setting.

 

 

 

Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Antonio di Jacobo d'Antonio Benci
also called "Il Pollajolo"

Piero del Pollaiuolo
Piero di Jacobo d'Antonio Benci

last name for both can also be spelled Pollajuolo

 

Antonio born: Florence, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 17 January 1432/33
Antonio died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy], 4 February 1498

Piero born: Florence, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 1443
Piero died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy], 1496

Brothers that worked jointly under a combined signature. Antonio Pollaiuolo was a painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver pupil of Donatello; his brother Piero was a painter.

 

 

Pollaiuolo: Galeazzo Mana Sforza

Galeazzo Maria Sforza
1471
Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Pollaiuolo: Young Woman

Young Woman
about 1475
Uffizi, Florence, Ital
y

 

Twenty-two more Pollaiuolo paintings, sculptures, drawings, and etchings.

 

 

Andrea del Verrocchio
Verrochio
Andrea di Michele Cione

born: Florence, Republic of Florence; [now Italy]; 1435
died: Venice; Republic of Venice [now Italy]; 1488

 

He was a goldsmith, sculptor, carver, painter and musician. Teacher of Leonardo da Vinci.

 

Verrocchio: [sculpture] Woman

Woman
1475-80
Bargello, Florence, Italy

Verrocchio: [sculpture] The Young David

The Young David
1473-75
Bargello, Florence, Italy

Verrocchio: Baptism of Christ

The Baptism of Christ
[with Leonardo da Vinci]
1472-75
Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Verrocchio: Tobias and the Angel

Tobias and the Angel
1470-80
National Gallery, London, England

 

 

 

Francesco del Cossa
Bartolomeo Corradini

born: Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara [now Italy]; 1436
died: Bologna, Emilia [now Italy]; 1478

Early Renaissance painter who worked for the last seven years of his life in Bologna.

 

Melozzo da Forlì

born: Forlì, near Ravenna; [now Italy]; 1438
died: Forlì, near Ravenna; [now Italy]; 8 November 1494

Fresco artist and architect. One of the great fresco artists of the early Renaissance. Specialized in illusionistic prespective. His painting is more realistic that Uccello or Piero della Francesca, his teacher.

 

 

 

Botticelli: Self   Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Filipepi

born: Florence, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 1445
died: Florence, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 17 May 1510

 

Botticelli: Primavera (Spring)

Primavera (Allegory of Spring)
about 1485
Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

 

Many more Botticelli pictures and a summary chronological biography.

 

 

Luca Signorelli
Luca da Cortona
Luca d’Egidio di Maestro Ventura de’ Signorelli

born: Cortona, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; about 1447
died: Cortona, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 16 October 1523

 

Signorelli: Damned Cast into Hell

The Damned Cast into Hell
1499-1502
Fresco, Capella Nuova di S. Brizio
Orvieto, Italy

 

Five more Signorelli pictures.

 

 

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Ghirlandajo
Domenico Di Tommaso Bigordi

born: Florence, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 1449
died: Florence, Republic of Florence [now Italy]; 11 January 1494

 

Ghirlandaio: Old Man and his Grandson

An Old Man and
His Grandson
about 1480 or 90
Louvre, Paris

 

Two more Ghirlandaio pictures.

 

Perugino
Pietro Di Cristoforo Vannucci

born: Città della Pieve, near Perugia, Romagna [now Italy]; about 1450
died: Fontignano, near Perugia [now Italy]; February or March 1523

 

 Perugino: Christ giving the Keys

Christ giving St. Peter
the Keys to the Kingdom
1481-83
Fresco, Sistine Chapel
Vatican, Rome

 

Three more Perugino pictures.

 

Vittore Carpaccio

born: Venice, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; about 1460
died: Venice, Republic of Venice [now Italy]; 1525 or 1526

The dominant influences on Vittore's early work were Gentile Bellini and Antonello da Messina

 

 

Lippi, Flippino: [fresco] Self  Filippino Lippi

born: Prato, Republic of Florence, [now Italy]; about 1457
died: Florence, [now Italy], 18 April 1504

 

Lippi, Flippino: Crucifixion of St. John

The Disputation with Simon Magus and
Crucifixion of St Peter
[detail]
1481-82
Santa Maria del Carmine
Florence, Italy

 

 

Sixteen more Filippino Lippi pictures.

 

 

 

Fra Carnevale
Bartolomeo Corradini

active: Italy, 1445-1484

Carnevale: Presentation of the Virgin

Presentation of the
Virgin in the Temple
1467

Museum of Fine Arts
Boston

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