Italy

Agnolo Bronzino

A butcher's son swept off his feet by a renaissance master.

Andrea Palladio

Inventor of Curb Appeal, Master of the Facade

Antonio Canova

A global titan of neoclassical sculpture

Antonio Sant'Elia

Prophet of the violent, industrial future

Artemisia Gentileschi

Heads will roll

Bernardo Parentino

A case of mistaken identity

Canaletto

The spiritual inventor of the postcard

Caravaggio

How a murderer invented Baroque painting

Carlo Carrà

An argument for consistency

Carlo Crivelli

The detailed worlds of the forgotten High Gothic

Cimabue

Master of Flat

Donatello

A celibate perfectionist revives classical sculpture

Elisabetta Sirani

The mysterious death of a young art teacher

Fede Galizia

A woman in Italy invents the still life

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

A poet creates a church of speed and violence

Fra Angelico

Spiritual rock star kickstarts the Italian Renaissance

Giacomo Balla

Moving objects multiply themselves

Giampietrino

Copying Leonardo da Vinci for fun and profit.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Making marble move

Gino Severini

A future of dancers instead of machines

Giorgio de Chirico

Enchanted space in the city of Nietzsche

Giorgio Morandi

What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?

Giorgio Vasari

The first art historian

Giorgione

Rich color and mood like smooth syrup

Giovanna Garzoni

Travel, socialize, paint lemons and beans

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Making a living from etchings

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Spirit and fire, a quick and resolute style

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Why take art so seriously?

John Singer Sargent

Portrait painter extraordinaire

Lavinia Fontana

Matriarch of the family business

Leonardo da Vinci

Did you know he was a vegetarian?

Lorenzo Monaco

Gothic tradition is good enough for me

Luca della Robbia

Terra-cotta Master

Luigi Russolo

Machines that scream: inventing Futurist music

Michelangelo

Time to flex

Piero della Francesca

A mathematician gets fierce with perspective

Rosalba Carriera

Pastel portraits keep you looking young and fresh

Sandro Botticelli

A fulcrum between old and new

Sofonisba Anguissola

Intimate portraitist and confidant to the queen

Tina Modotti

Titian

"The Sun amidst small stars"

Umberto Boccioni

Why can’t I stop painting my mother?

Vincenzo Catena

A rich boy makes friends and paints for fun