Agnolo Bronzino — A butcher's son swept off his feet by a renaissance master.
1503-1572Andrea Palladio — Inventor of Curb Appeal, Master of the Facade
1508-1580Antonio Canova — A global titan of neoclassical sculpture
1757-1822Antonio Sant'Elia — Prophet of the violent, industrial future
1888-1916Artemisia Gentileschi — Heads will roll
1593-1656Bernardo Parentino — Let's torture Saint Anthony
1450-1500Canaletto — The spiritual inventor of the postcard
1697-1768Caravaggio — How a murderer invented Baroque painting
1571-1610Carlo Carrà — An argument for consistency
1881-1966Carlo Crivelli — The detailed worlds of the forgotten High Gothic
1430-1495Cimabue — Master of Flat
1240-1302Donatello — A celibate perfectionist revives classical sculpture
1386-1466Elisabetta Sirani — The mysterious death of a young art teacher
1638-1665Fede Galizia — A woman in Italy invents the still life
1578-1630Filippo Tommaso Marinetti — A poet creates a church of speed and violence
1876-1944Fra Angelico — Spiritual rock star kickstarts the Italian Renaissance
1395-1455Giacomo Balla — Moving objects multiply themselves
1871-1958Giampietrino — Copying Leonardo da Vinci for fun and profit.
1495-1549Gian Lorenzo Bernini — Making marble move
1598-1680Gino Severini — A future of dancers instead of machines
1883-1966Giorgio de Chirico — Enchanted space in the city of Nietzsche
1888-1978Giorgio Morandi — What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
1890-1964Giorgio Vasari — The first art historian
1511-1574Giorgione — Rich color and mood like smooth syrup
1477-1510Giotto di Bondone — The human form, rediscovered during the Dark Ages
1267-1337Giovanna Garzoni — Travel, socialize, paint lemons and beans
1600-1670Giovanni Battista Piranesi — Making a solid living from Etchings
1720-1778Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — Spirit and fire, a quick and resolute style
1696-1770Giuseppe Arcimboldo — Why take art so seriously?
1526-1593John Singer Sargent — Portrait Painter Extraordinaire
Lavinia Fontana — Matriarch of the family business, "Painting"
1552-1614Leonardo da Vinci — Did you know he was a vegetarian?
1452-1519Lorenzo Monaco — Gothic tradition is good enough for me
1370-1425Luca della Robbia — Terra-cotta Master
1399-1482Luigi Russolo — Machines that scream — inventing Futurist music
1885-1947Michelangelo — Time to flex
1475-1564Piero della Francesca — A mathematician gets fierce with perspective
1415-1492Raphael Sanzio — Star boy parties himself to death
1483-1520Rosalba Carriera — Pastel portraits keep you looking young and fresh
1673-1757Sandro Botticelli — A fulcrum between old and new
1445-1510Sofonisba Anguissola — Intimate portraitist and confidant to the queen
1532-1625Titian — "The Sun amidst small stars"
1488-1576Umberto Boccioni — Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882-1916Vincenzo Catena — A rich boy makes friends and paints for fun
1480-1531Ancient Theater of Segesta
400 BCEAncient Theatre of Taormina
400 BCEArch of Titus
Rabirius82 CEArian Baptistery
Theodoric the Great400 CE-500 CEBaptistry of Neon
Bishop Ursus400 CE-500 CEBasilica di San Giorgio Maggiore
Andrea Palladio1566-1610Basilica of San Vitale
Bishop Ecclesius526 CE-547 CEBasilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Theodoric the Great504 CE-504 CECattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore
Giorgio Vasari, Arnolfo di Cambio1296-1436Church of the Gesù
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola Giacomo della Porta1568-1580Colosseum
Vespasian — Titus70 CE-80 CEDoge's Palace, Venice
1340Florence Baptistery
1059-1128Hadrian's Villa
200 CELeaning Tower of Pisa
Bonanno Pisano1173-1372Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
450 CEMausoleum of Theoderic
520 CENuragic Sanctuary of Santa Cristina
1100 BCEPalace of Theodoric
700 CEPantheon
Marcus Agrippa113 CE-125 CEPisa Baptistry
Diotisalvi1152-1153Pisa Cathedral
Buscheto and Rainaldo1063-1092Pyramid of Cestius
Gaius Cestius12 BCESt. Peter's Square
Gian Lorenzo Bernini1675Temple of Segesta
420 BCEThe Devils Bridge
1400Torcello Cathedral
639 CETrajan's Column
107 CE-113 CETrevi Fountain
Nicola Salvi1762Villa Capra, 'La Rotonda'
Andrea Palladio1592Villa Farnesina
Baldassarre Peruzzi1506-1510