Top Renaissance Artists
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
Last Supper
Vitruvian Man
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
La Fornarina
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
world's most famous sculpture, David
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
Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano
Cantoria