1.

Michaelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni (Italian: [mikelandelo di lodoviko buonarti
simni]; 6 March 1475 18 February 1564), was
an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled
influence on the development ofWestern art.
[1]
Considered to be the greatest living artist during his
lifetime, he has since also been described as one of the
greatest artists of all time.[1] Despite making few forays
beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took
up was of such a high order that he is often considered a
contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance
man, along with his rival and
fellow Florentine Medici client, Leonardo da Vinci.

Rome,Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of

Italy a long and productive career. He worked in
stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax, and had
several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical
number. Though his best-known works were mostly
statues in the round, he developed a new, very
shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a good
deal of his output was larger architectural reliefs.
5. Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (pronounced [tit
tsjano vetlljo]; c. 1488/1490[1] 27 August 1576),
[2]

known in English as Titian/tn/, was an Italian

2. Leonardo Da Vinci

painter, the most important member of the 16th-

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more

commonly Leonardo da Vinci or
simply Leonardo (Italian: [leonardo di ser piero da (v)
vinti] ( listen); 15 April 1452 2 May 1519), was
an Italian polymath whose areas of interest
included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, scie
nce,music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatom
y, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history,
and cartography. He has been variously called the father
of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is
widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time.
Sometimes credited with the inventions of
the parachute, helicopter and tank,[1][2][3] he epitomized
the Renaissance humanist ideal.

century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di

3. Raphael

exercise a profound influence not only on painters of

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino[2] (Italian: [raffallo

santsjo da urbino]; April 6 or March 28, 1483
April 6, 1520),[3] known as Raphael (/rfel/,US /
rfil, rfal/), was
an Italian painter and architect of the High
Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of
form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of
the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together
with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms
the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. [4]

the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations

4. Donatello

painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to

Donato di Niccol di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 13

December 1466), better known
as Donatello (Italian: [donatllo]), was an early
Renaissancesculptor from Florence. He studied
classical sculpture, and used this to develop a fully
Renaissance style in sculpture, whose periods in

Cadore, nearBelluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice).

[3]

During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore,

taken from the place of his birth.

Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun
Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line
of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most
versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with
portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological
and religious subjects. His painting methods,
particularly in the application and use of color, would

of Western art.[4]

6. Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi,

known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [sandro botti
tlli]; c. 1445[1] May 17, 1510), was an Italian
the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo
de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would
characterize less than a hundred years later in
his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". Botticelli's
posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th
century; since then, his work has been seen to

represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance

painting.
7. Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michael Angelo
Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (Italian
pronunciation: [karavaddo]; 29 September 1571

inCaravaggio 18 July 1610) was an Italian

painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta,
and Sicily between 1592 (1595?) and 1610. His
paintings, which combine a realistic observation of
the human state, both physical and emotional, with a
dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence
on Baroque painting.[1][2][3]

on the rise of modern science.[6] His accomplishments

also include other architectural works, sculpture,
mathematics, engineering, and ship design. His
principal surviving works are to be found in Florence,
Italy. Unfortunately, his two original linear
perspective panels have been lost.
9. Albrecht Drer
Albrecht Drer (/drr, djrr/;
[1]
German: [albt dy]; 21 May 1471 6 April
1528)[2] was a painter, printmaker and theorist of
theGerman Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Drer
established his reputation and influence across
Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his
high-quality woodcut prints. He was in
communication with the major Italian artists of his
time, including Raphael, Giovanni
Bellini andLeonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was
patronized by emperor Maximilian I.

8. Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian: [filippo brunelleski];

1377 April 15, 1446) was an Italian designer and a
key figure in architecture, recognised to be the first
modern engineer, planner and sole construction
supervisor.[4] He was the oldest amongst the founding
fathers of the Renaissance. He is generally well known
for developing a technique for linear perspective in art
and for building the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
Heavily depending on mirrors and geometry, to
"reinforce Christian spiritual 'reality'", his formulation
of linear perspective governed pictorial depiction of
space until the late 19th century.[5][6] It also had the
most profound and quite unanticipated influence

10. Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch (/ha.rnms b/;
[1]
Dutch: [ijeronimz bs];[2] born Jheronimus
van Aken[3] [jeronims fn ak(n)];[4] c. 1450 9
August 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter. His
work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed
landscapes, and illustrations of religious concepts and
narratives.[5] Within his lifetime his work was collected
in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely
copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish
depictions of hell.