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The Angelic Light of the Early Renaissance ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Fra Angelico, born Guido di Pietro around the end of the fourteenth century in the Mugello region north of Florence, occupies a unique place in Renaissance art. He…
Matter, Fire and Modern Art ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, in 1915, and became one of the most radical Italian artists of the twentieth century. His work changed the meaning of…
A Lady of the Italian Renaissance ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna in 1552 into a world in which painting was overwhelmingly a male profession. Women could appear in portraits, inspire poetry, commission altarpieces, and…
Painter of Alpine Light ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giovanni Segantini was born in Arco, then part of the Austrian Empire and now in Trentino, in 1858. He died only forty-one years later in the high Alps, but during his…
The Intimate Genius of the Renaissance ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Lorenzo Lotto was born in Venice around 1480 and died in Loreto in the middle of the sixteenth century. For much of his life he worked outside the brightest…
Romantic Soul of Italy ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Francesco Hayez was born in Venice in 1791 and died in Milan in 1882, after a life that spanned almost the entire nineteenth-century transformation of Italy. He began his career when…
The Great Painter of the Seventeenth Century: Art, Strength and Independence Artemisia Gentileschi spent centuries being discussed as an exception before the world finally began to see her as what she had always been: a major painter. Her life contained…