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