ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Piero della Francesca occupies a unique place in Renaissance art. His paintings are calm, lucid, and geometrically ordered, yet they possess a mystery that resists explanation. Figures stand in clear light, architecture is measured with…
Elegance of Mannerism ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known to history as Parmigianino, was born in Parma in 1503 and died only thirty-seven years later. His life was brief, restless, brilliant, and in the end troubled,…
ItalyStories.com Titian, born Tiziano Vecellio around 1488 or 1490 in Pieve di Cadore, rose from the mountains of the Venetian mainland to become the painter who gave Venice its color, its sensuality, and much of its image in the imagination…
The Sicilian Master of Portraits ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Antonello da Messina occupies a special place in the history of Italian painting. Born in Messina in Sicily around 1430 and dead by 1479, he spent a comparatively short career…
The Poet of Soft Light ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after the small Emilian town where he was born around 1489, was one of the most daring and poetic painters of the Italian Renaissance. He…
Master of Venetian Serenity ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giovanni Bellini stands at the beginning of one of the greatest chapters in the history of painting: the triumph of Venetian color. Born in Venice around 1430 and active until his…
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…