Agnolo Bronzino
A butcher's son swept off his feet by a renaissance master.
1503-1572
Amedeo Modigliani
1884-1920
Andrea Palladio
Inventor of Curb Appeal, Master of the Facade
1508-1580
Antonio Canova
A global titan of neoclassical sculpture
1757-1822
Antonio Sant'Elia
Prophet of the violent, industrial future
1888-1916
Artemisia Gentileschi
Heads will roll
1593-1656
Bernardo Parentino
A case of mistaken identity
1450-1500
Canaletto
The spiritual inventor of the postcard
1697-1768
Caravaggio
How a murderer invented Baroque painting
1571-1610
Carlo Carrà
An argument for consistency
1881-1966
Carlo Crivelli
The detailed worlds of the forgotten High Gothic
1430-1495
Cimabue
Master of Flat
1240-1302
Donatello
A celibate perfectionist revives classical sculpture
1386-1466
Elisabetta Sirani
The mysterious death of a young art teacher
1638-1665
Fede Galizia
A woman in Italy invents the still life
1578-1630
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
A poet creates a church of speed and violence
1876-1944
Fra Angelico
Spiritual rock star kickstarts the Italian Renaissance
1395-1455
Giacomo Balla
Moving objects multiply themselves
1871-1958
Giampietrino
Copying Leonardo da Vinci for fun and profit.
1495-1549
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Making marble move
1598-1680
Gino Severini
A future of dancers instead of machines
1883-1966
Giorgio de Chirico
Enchanted space in the city of Nietzsche
1888-1978
Giorgio Morandi
What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
1890-1964
Giorgio Vasari
The first art historian
1511-1574
Giorgione
Rich color and mood like smooth syrup
1477-1510
Giotto di Bondone
The human form, rediscovered during the Dark Ages
1267-1337
Giovanna Garzoni
Travel, socialize, paint lemons and beans
1600-1670
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Making a living from etchings
1720-1778
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Spirit and fire, a quick and resolute style
1696-1770
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Why take art so seriously?
1526-1593
John Singer Sargent
Portrait painter extraordinaire
1856-1925
Lavinia Fontana
Matriarch of the family business
1552-1614
Leonardo da Vinci
Did you know he was a vegetarian?
1452-1519
Lorenzo Monaco
Gothic tradition is good enough for me
1370-1425
Luca della Robbia
Terra-cotta Master
1399-1482
Luigi Russolo
Machines that scream: inventing Futurist music
1885-1947
Michelangelo
Time to flex
1475-1564
Piero della Francesca
A mathematician gets fierce with perspective
1415-1492
Plautilla Nelli
1524-1588
Raphael Sanzio
Star boy parties himself to death
1483-1520
Rosalba Carriera
Pastel portraits keep you looking young and fresh
1673-1757
Sandro Botticelli
A fulcrum between old and new
1445-1510
Sofonisba Anguissola
Intimate portraitist and confidant to the queen
1532-1625
Tina Modotti
1896-1942
Tintoretto
1518-1594
Titian
"The Sun amidst small stars"
1488-1576
Umberto Boccioni
Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882-1916
Vincenzo Catena
A rich boy makes friends and paints for fun
1480-1531
Ancient Theater of Segesta
400 BCE
Ancient Theater of Taormina
400 BCE
Arch of Titus
Rabirius, 82 CE
Arian Baptistery
Theodoric the Great, 400 CE-500 CE
Baptistry of Neon
Bishop Ursus, 400 CE-500 CE
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore
Andrea Palladio, 1566-1610
Basilica of San Vitale
Bishop Ecclesius, 526 CE-547 CE
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Theodoric the Great, 504 CE-504 CE
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore
Giorgio Vasari, 1296-1436
Church of the Gesù
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1568-1580
Colosseum
Vespasian — Titus, 70 CE-80 CE
Devils Bridge
1400
Doge's Palace, Venice
1340
Florence Baptistery
1059-1128
Hadrian's Villa
200 CE
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Bonanno Pisano, 1173-1372
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
450 CE
Mausoleum of Theoderic
520 CE
Nuragic Sanctuary of Santa Cristina
1100 BCE
Palace of Theodoric
700 CE
Pantheon
Marcus Agrippa, 113 CE-125 CE
Pisa Baptistry
Diotisalvi, 1152-1153
Pisa Cathedral
Buscheto and Rainaldo, 1063-1092
Pyramid of Cestius
Gaius Cestius, 12 BCE
St. Peter's Square
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1675
Temple of Segesta
420 BCE
Torcello Cathedral
639 CE
Trajan's Column
107 CE-113 CE
Trevi Fountain
Nicola Salvi, 1762
Villa Capra, 'La Rotonda'
Andrea Palladio, 1592
Villa Farnesina
Baldassarre Peruzzi, 1506-1510