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Renaissance Artists (1400-1600)

If you are a student of Art or Art History, here is a more detailed list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
Alberti, Leon Battista
 NA1123 .A5
14041472ItalianItalian RenaissanceArchitectureTempio Malatestiano in Rimini
Basilica of Sant’Andrea in Mantua
Bonacolsi, Pier Jacopo~14601528(North) ItalianRenaissanceSculptureAntonia del Balzo Medallion
Meleager
Bosch, Hieronymus
 ND653 .B65
~14501516DutchEarly NetherlandishPaintingThe Garden of Earthly Delights
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Botticelli, Sandro
 ND623 .B7
~14451510Italian (Florentine)RenaissancePaintingThe Birth of Venus
Primavera
Brunelleschi, Filippo
 NA1123 .B8
13771446ItalianItalian RenaissanceArchitecture
Sculpture
Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence
Da Vinci, Leonardo
 ND623 .L5
14521519ItalianHigh Renaissance
Realism
Painting
Drawing
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
The Vitruvian Man
David, Gerard~14601523DutchEarly NetherlandishPaintingMadonna with Angels and Saints
The Marriage of St. Catherine
Donatello
 NB623 .D7
~13861466Italian
(Florentine)
Early RenaissanceSculptureSt. John the Evangelist
David
Gattamelata
Dürer, Albrecht
 NE1205 .D9
14711528GermanRenaissancePainting
Woodcuts
Self-Portrait at 28
Knight, Death, and the Devil
Praying Hands
El Greco
 ND813 .T4
15411614CretanMannerismPainting
Sculpture
The Assumption of the Virgin
The Burial of Count Orgaz
Fra Angelico
 ND623 .F5
~13951455Italian
(Florentine)
Early RenaissancePainting
Frescoes
The Virgin of the Annunciation
The Deposition
The Last Judgement
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
 ND623 .G45
13781455Italian (Florentine)Early RenaissanceSculptureThe Gates of Paradise
St. John the Baptist
Gonçalves, Nunofl. 1450-1471PortuguesePortuguese RenaissancePaintingPortrait of Princess Saint Joana
Panels of St. Vincent Outside the Walls
Hering, Loy~14851564GermanRenaissanceSculptureSaint Willibald of Eichstätt
Annunciation
Michelangelo
 NB623 .B9
 ND623 .B9
14751564ItalianHigh RenaissanceSculpture
Painting
David
Pieta
The Last Judgement
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Ordóñez, Bartolomé ~14801520SpanishRenaissanceSculptureCathedral of Barcelona choir stalls & retrochoir
Raphael (Sanzio)
 ND623 .R2
14831520ItalianHigh RenaissancePaintingThe School of Athens
Sistine Madonna
Madonna of the Meadow
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)
 ND623 .T7
~14901576Italian
(Venetian)
RenaissancePaintingAssumption of the Virgin
The Danaë
Bacchus and Ariadne
van Cleve, Joos~14851540/1DutchRenaissancePaintingEleanor of Austria
Death of the Virgin
van Eyck, Jan
 ND673 .E87
~1390~1441DutchEarly Netherlandish
Realism
PaintingGhent Altarpiece
Arnolfini Portrait