# The greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance

The masters of Italian painting from the 15th and 16th centuries cited in every art-history guide, with a signature work by each.

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- Jan 1, 2024 · Ludovica
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## Top 15

1. **Leonardo da Vinci** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1452-1519. The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
2. **Michelangelo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1475-1564. The Sistine Chapel ceiling and Last Judgement.
3. **Raphael** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1483-1520. The School of Athens and the Sistine Madonna.
4. **Titian** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1488-1576. The Venus of Urbino; master of Venetian colour.
5. **Sandro Botticelli** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1445-1510. The Birth of Venus and Primavera.
6. **Masaccio** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1401-1428. The Brancacci Chapel frescoes, the first great use of perspective in painting.
7. **Giotto** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1267-1337. The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua; forerunner of the Renaissance.
8. **Piero della Francesca** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1415-1492. The Flagellation of Christ; painter and mathematician of perspective.
9. **Giorgione** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1477-1510. The Tempest.
10. **Andrea Mantegna** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1431-1506. The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, in a daring foreshortening.
11. **Fra Angelico** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1395-1455. The Annunciation in the convent of San Marco, Florence.
12. **Giovanni Bellini** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — c. 1430-1516. Father of Venetian Renaissance painting.
13. **Correggio** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1489-1534. The dome of Parma Cathedral.
14. **Paolo Uccello** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1397-1475. The Battle of San Romano.
15. **Tintoretto** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1518-1594. The canvases of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice.
16. **Paolo Veronese** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1528-1588. The Wedding at Cana in the Louvre.

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