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Notable Renaissance Artists (1400-1600)

If you wish to be generally familiar with art history, here is a short list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
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
Da Vinci, Leonardo
 ND623 .L5
14521519ItalianHigh Renaissance
Realism
Painting
Drawing
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
The Vitruvian Man
Donatello
 NB623 .D7
~13861466Italian
(Florentine)
Early RenaissanceSculptureSt. John the Evangelist
David
Gattamelata
Dürer, Albrecht
 NE1205 .D9
14711528GermanRenaissancePainting
Woodcuts
Self-Portrait at 26
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 Judgment
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
 ND623 .G45
13781455Italian (Florentine)Early RenaissanceSculptureThe Gates of Paradise
St. John the Baptist
Michelangelo
 NB623 .B9
 ND623 .B9
14751564ItalianHigh RenaissanceSculpture
Painting
David
Pieta
The Last Judgement
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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