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
A case of mistaken identity
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 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
1856-1925Lavinia Fontana
Matriarch of the family business
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 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