Top 10 Famous Italian Artists and Painters
Considered one of the greatest painters of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was also a polymath, an engineer, a scientist, a sculptor, and much more – a true Renaissance man!
The leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Caravaggio is best known for the intense, and sometimes uncomfortable, realism of his large religious works.
Known as Tiziano Vecelli in Italian, Titian was an Italian painter during the Renaissance era and is considered the greatest member of the 16th century Venetian school of painting.
Better known simply as Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was another great Italian painter of the High Renaissance.
Considered the archetypal Renaissance man, Michelangelo’s artistic versatility has resulted in his work being known worldwide and made him one of the most famous Italian artists.
Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter during the Early Renaissance period, working mostly during the late 15th century.
Born from a family of painters, Giovanni Bellini is considered to have revolutionised Venetian painting during the High Renaissance.
Considered one of the most accomplished artists of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter who worked mostly in the Baroque style.
You may not recognise this name at first, but this was the real name of another of the most famous Italian artists – Donatello, a forerunner of the Italian Renaissance.
Not only a great Italian artist, Bernini is considered one of the greatest Italian architects of the Renaissance, and a truly universal artist.
