Top Renaissance Artists


Top Renaissance Artists

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Leonardo da Vinci


Leonardo da Vinci

polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer

most diversely talented person ever to have lived

archetype of the Renaissance Man

Famous works

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Last Supper

Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man

Raphael


Raphael

painter and architect

with da Vinci and Michelangelo, forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period

very productive despite death at 37

most of his works found at the Vatican

Famous works

The School of Athens

The School of Athens

La Fornarina

La Fornarina

Michelangelo


Michelangelo

sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer

the greatest living artist in his lifetime and one of the greatest artists of all time

Famous works

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

world's most famous sculpture, David

world's most famous sculpture, David

Donatello


Donatello

sculptor born in Florence but worked in Rome, Padua and Siena

worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax

4 assistants

mostly statues in the round

Famous works

Saint John the Evangelist

Saint John the Evangelist

Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano

Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano

Cantoria

Cantoria