List of Renaissance artists

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**Renaissance artists** are artists from the Renaissance period of Europe, which started in the late 14th century (~1370). This list includes famous painters and sculptors.

Each artist is listed with their dates, place of birth, some places that they worked, their media (the type of artwork that they made), one or two most famous works and some art galleries where their works can be seen.

## Renaissance artists: Italian

File:Four Crowned Saints Nanni di Banco Orsanmichele.jpg|Nanni di Banco, *Four Crowned Martyrs*, Florence
File:Brunelleschi, sacrificio di Isacco.JPG|Brunelleschi, *The Sacrifice of Isaac*, Florence
File:Drzwi Raju Lorenzo Ghiberti Florencja.jpg|Ghiberti, *The Gates of Paradise*, Florence
File:Gattamelata.jpg|Donatello, *Gattemelata*, Padua
File:Masolino Brancacci Chapel 01.jpg|Masolino, '*The Healing of Tabitha*, Florence
File:Masaccio 004.jpg|Masaccio, *The Tribute Money*, Florence
File:Fra Angelico 073.jpg|Fra Angelico, *Descent from the Cross*, Florence
File:Lippi z11.jpg|Filippo Lippi, *Coronation of the Virgin*, Spoleto
File:Paolo Uccello 031.jpg|Uccello, *The Battle of San Romano*, London
File:Piero della Francesca 021.jpg|Piero della Francesca, '*The History of the True Cross*, Arezzo
File:Andrea del Castagno 001.jpg|Andrea del Castagno, *The Last Supper*, Florence
File:Accademia - Procession in piazza San Marco by Gentile Bellini.jpg|Gentile Bellini, *The Procession of the Cross*, Venice
File:Antonello da Messina - St Jerome in his study - National Gallery London.jpg|Antonello da Messina, *St Jerome in his study*, London
File:Mantegna.jpg|Mantegna, *Ceiling of the Marriage Chamber*, Mantua
File:Bartolomeo Colleoni by Andrea del Verrocchio.jpg|Verrocchio, *Bartolomeo Colleoni*, Venice
File:Leonardo da Vinci 016.jpg|Verrocchio and Leonardo, *The baptism of Christ*, Florence
File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited.jpg|Botticelli, *Birth of Venus*, Florence
File:Signorelli Resurrection.jpg|Signorelli, *The Resurrection*, Orvieto
File:Pietro Perugino 034.jpg|Perugino, *Jesus giving the Keys to Peter*, Rome
File:Cappella tornabuoni, 02, nascita della vergine.jpg|Ghirlandaio, *The Birth of the Virgin*, Florence

### High Renaissance
 
Image:Filippino Lippi 008.jpg|Filippino Lippi, *Scenes from the Life of St. Peter*, Florence 
Image:Leonardo da Vinci 002.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci, *The Last Supper*, Milan 
Image:God2-Sistine Chapel.png|Michelangelo, *Creation of Adam*, Vatican 
Image:Raphael School of Athens.jpg|Raphael, *School of Athens*, Vatican 
Image:Michelangelos David.jpg|Michelangelo, *David*, Florence
Image:Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci, *Mona Lisa*, Paris 
Image:Tizian - Venus von Urbino.jpg|Titian, *Venus of Urbino*, Florence
Accademia - La tempesta - Giorgione.jpg|Giorgione, *The Tempest*', Venice 
Accademia - Pala di San Giobbe by Giovanni Bellini.jpg|Giovanni Bellini, *San Giobbe Altarpiece*, Venice 
Image:Tizian 041.jpg|Titian, *Assumption of the Virgin*, Venice 
Image:Raffael, Sixtinska madonnan.jpg|Raphael, *Sistine Madonna*, Dresden 
Image:Andrea del Sarto 003.jpg|Andrea del Sarto, *Madonna of the Harpies*, Florence 

### Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
 
Image:Perseus Cellini Loggia dei Lanzi 2005 09 13.jpg|Cellini, *Perseus with the head of the Medusa*, Florence 
Image:Florence Rape of the Sabine Women 1.jpg|Giambolgna, *Rape of the Sabine Women*, Florence 
Image:Bronzino - Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni - Google Art Project.jpg|Bronzino, *Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo*, Florence 
Image:Parmigianino - Madonna dal collo lungo - Google Art Project.jpg|Parmigianino, *The Madonna with the Long Neck*, Florence 
Image:Jacopo Pontormo 004.jpg|Pontormo, *The Deposition*, Florence 
Image:El Greco - The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.JPG|El Greco, *Burial of the Count of Orgaz*, Toledo 
Image:Jacopo Tintoretto 026.jpg|Tintoretto, *Paradise*, Venice 
Image:The Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese (edited 2).jpg|Veronese, *Feast in the House of Levi*, Venice 

## Renaissance artists: Northern Europe and Spain
### Early Renaissance
Louvre, National Gallery, London;

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Metropolitan Museum, New York 
Image:Jan and Hubert van Eyck - Ghent Altarpiece.jpg|Hubert and Jan van Eyck, *The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb*, Ghent 
Image:Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg|Jan van Eyck, *Wedding portrait of the Arnolfini*, London 
Image:Robert Campin 011.jpg|Robert Campin, *The Merode Altarpiece*, New York
Image:El_Descendimiento,_by_Rogier_van_der_Weyden,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg|Rogier van der Weyden, *Descent from the Cross*, Madrid 
Image:Fouquet Madonna.jpg|Jean Fouquet, *Madonna and Child*, Antwerp 
Image:Hugo van der Goes 006.jpg|Hugo van der Goes, *The Portinari Altarpiece*, Florence 
Image:Bartolomé Bermejo - Retablo della vergine di Montserrat.jpg|Bartolomé Bermejo, *Altarpiece of the Virgin of Montserrat*, Acqui Terme 
Image:Hieronymus Bosch 023.jpg|Hieronymus Bosch, *The Garden of Worldly Delights*, Prado

### 1500s
 
Image:Grunewald Isenheim1.jpg|Grunewald, *The Isenheim Altarpiece*, Colmar 
Image:Albrecht Dürer 003.jpg|Durer, *Adoration of the Trinity*, Vienna
Image:Lucas Cranach d. Ä. 026.jpg|L. Cranach the elder, *Altarpiece of St. Catherine of Alexandria*, Dresden 
Image:Battle of Issus by Altdorfer 1529 Pinakothek-Mus Munich.jpg| Altdorfer, *The Battle of Issus*, Munich 
Image:Jean Clouet 001.jpg|Jean Clouet, *François I of France*, Louvre 
Image:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_The_Ambassadors_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|Holbein, *The Ambassadors*, London 
Image:François Clouet 002.jpg|François Clouet, *Diane of Poitiers*, Washington D.C. 
Image:Elizabeth1.jpg|Hilliard, *Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I*, London(?)

## References
* Diana Davies (editor), ''Harrap's Encyclopedia of Art and Artists*, (1990), 
* Giorgio Vasari, *Lives of the Artists*, (1568), 1965 edition, trans George Bull, Penguin,  
* Frederick Hartt, *A History of Italian Renaissance Art*, (1970) Thames and Hudson,  
* Luciano Berti, *Florence: the city and its art*, (1971) Scala. 
* Luciano Berti, *The Ufizzi'', (1971) Scala, Florence.