"Susanna and the Elders (Tintoretto) Susanna and the Elders is a painting by Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti (15181594). Robusti, also known as Tintoretto or IlFurioso, for the energy and ""fury"" with which he painted, depicted both sacred and profane subjects in a period known as the Venetian “golden century”. ""Susanna and the Elders"" (c.1555–56) depicts a scene from the biblical episode of Susanna, from the Book of Daniel. The painting shows Susanna, a young married woman, sitting on the edge of a small pool, preparing to take a bath. She is watched by two elderly men, acquaintances of her husband,"
"Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 in Gregorian style, or 1494 according to the calculation of times in Florence where the year began on 25 March – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning ""red Florentine"" in Italian), or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school. Born in Florence with the red hair that gave him his nickname, Rosso first trained in the studio of Andrea del Sarto alongside his contemporary, Pontormo. In late 1523, Rosso moved to Rome, where he was exposed to the works of"
"San Lorenzo in Sansepolcro. Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 in Gregorian style, or 1494 according to the calculation of times in Florence where the year began on 25 March – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning ""red Florentine"" in Italian), or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school. Born in Florence with the red hair that gave him his nickname, Rosso first trained in the studio of Andrea del Sarto alongside his contemporary, Pontormo. In late 1523, Rosso moved to Rome, where he was exposed"
"Jacopo de' Barbari Jacopo de' Barbari, sometimes known or referred to as de'Barbari, de Barberi, de Barbari, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo or Barberigo (c. 1460/70 – before 1516), was an Italian painter and printmaker with a highly individual style. He moved from Venice to Germany in 1500, thus becoming the first Italian Renaissance artist of stature to work in Northern Europe. His few surviving paintings (about twelve) include the first known example of ""trompe l'oeil"" since antiquity. His twenty-nine engravings and three very large woodcuts were also highly influential. His place and date of birth are unknown, but he was described"
"Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Piazzetta was born in Venice, the son of a sculptor Giacomo Piazzetta, from whom he had early training in wood carving. Starting in 1697 he studied with the painter Antonio Molinari. By Piazzetta's account, he studied under Giuseppe Maria Crespi while living in Bologna in 1703–05, although there is no record by Crespi of formal tutelage. Thanks to Crespi, Carlo Cignani's influence reached Piazzetta. Piazzetta did"
"Rossello di Jacopo Franchi Rossello di Jacopo Franchi: An Italian Renaissance Artist Rossello di Jacopo Franchi (c. 1376/77 – c. 1456) of Florence was an Italian painter. He worked in Florence beginning sometime around 1404 and was active until 1451. Rossello di Jacopo Franchi was born in the year 1376 or 1377. He was most likely the son of Jacopo del Rosso and Catherine. His father and older brother, Nanni, both worked in the textile industry, as a wool-carder, and a cloth cutter, respectively. Therefore, his entry into the arts was unexpected. The same can be said for Rossello's younger"
"richly embroidered cloth of honor held by two angels, is a type familiar from trecento painting. Some stylistic features, such as the tiny head with a slender, elongated body indicates the influence of Lorenzo Monaco and Lorenzo Ghiberti. Rossello di Jacopo Franchi Rossello di Jacopo Franchi: An Italian Renaissance Artist Rossello di Jacopo Franchi (c. 1376/77 – c. 1456) of Florence was an Italian painter. He worked in Florence beginning sometime around 1404 and was active until 1451. Rossello di Jacopo Franchi was born in the year 1376 or 1377. He was most likely the son of Jacopo del Rosso"
"his pupils. He died in Bologna. Jacopo Alessandro Calvi Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (23 February 1740 – 15 May 1815) was an Italian painter and art critic who painted sacred and historical subjects in a late-Baroque style. He was born in Bologna. He became deaf at the age of eight years, and due to his short stature, he was nicknamed ""il Sordino"". He trained with Giuseppe Varotti and later with Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti, from whom he also learned poetry. Among Calvi's writing are: Calvi painted in the cloister of the church of San Michele in Bosco and the Church of Sant'Agostino,"
"Giovanni Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24 – February 5, 1579) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy. Moroni was the son of architect Andrea Moroni. He trained under Alessandro Bonvicino ""Il Moretto"" in Brescia, where he was the main studio assistant in the 1540s, and worked in Trent, Bergamo and his home town of Albino, near Bergamo, where he was born and died. His"
"have been famous in our century/ that it make others seem destitute"". Santi then goes on to list famous names in painting, as known to him, this constitutes a remarkable concise list of 27 prominent painters of late 15th-century Italy and the Flanders, as one painter would have known. Santi's list reproduced in no order: Giovanni Santi Giovanni Santi (c. 1435 – 1 August 1494) was an Italian painter, decorator, and the father of Raphael. He was born at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino. He was a petty merchant for a time; he then studied under Piero della Francesca."
"Jacopo Coppi Jacopo Coppi, also called ""Giacomo Coppi"" or ""'Jacopo del Meglio'"" (""the Best"") (Peretola, 1523 - 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi. He was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. For the room, he depicted the ""Invention of Gunpowder"" and the ""Family of Darius before Alexander the Great"". Some of the sources dispute the identity of Coppi and Meglio. He is said to have"
"by a not clearly identified student. The work is signed ""IACO. BAR VIGEN/NIS 1495"". Jacopo de' Barbari is attributed a ""Christ Blessing"" displayed at the Snite Museum of Art in Notre Dame University, Indiana. Jacopo de' Barbari Jacopo de' Barbari, sometimes known or referred to as de'Barbari, de Barberi, de Barbari, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo or Barberigo (c. 1460/70 – before 1516), was an Italian painter and printmaker with a highly individual style. He moved from Venice to Germany in 1500, thus becoming the first Italian Renaissance artist of stature to work in Northern Europe. His few surviving paintings (about twelve)"
"Giovanni Battista Crespi Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his family some years later. In 1591 he is known to have been living in Milan. True to the Counter-Reformation piety zealously expressed in Milanese art of his time, his paintings focus on mysteries and mystical episodes in saintly life. The crowded canvases and the angles recall Mannerism, but his paintings show an emotion that evokes common sentiments in"
"Jacopo Ligozzi Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist. His art can be categorized as late-Renaissance and Mannerist styles. Born in Verona, he was the son of the artist Giovanni Ermano Ligozzi, and part of a large family of painters and artisans. After a time in the Habsburg court in Vienna, where he displayed drawings of animal and botanical specimens, he was invited to come to Florence and became one of the court artists for the Medici. Upon the death of Giorgio Vasari in 1574, he became head of the ""Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del"
"Jacobello da Messina Jacopo de Antonio; also called Jacobello Antonello, Jacobello da Messina"", or ""Iacobello di Antonello (c. 1456 – after 1482), was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Renaissance. He was the son of Antonello Da Messina. Jacobello may be the same as Pino da Messina. The son of the painter Antonello Da Messina, Jacobello was probably born at Messina some time before 1457, and almost certainly traveled to Venice with his father during the 1460s and 1470s. He was also active in Naples and is mentioned in his father's will of 1479. Few works are"
"Jacopo Alessandro Calvi Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (23 February 1740 – 15 May 1815) was an Italian painter and art critic who painted sacred and historical subjects in a late-Baroque style. He was born in Bologna. He became deaf at the age of eight years, and due to his short stature, he was nicknamed ""il Sordino"". He trained with Giuseppe Varotti and later with Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti, from whom he also learned poetry. Among Calvi's writing are: Calvi painted in the cloister of the church of San Michele in Bosco and the Church of Sant'Agostino, Ferrara. Anna Mignani was one of"
"painted in Rome and Bologna. Vasari mentions that he helped paint the decorations for the funeral of his master. Among his works are frescoes (1577) for the tribune of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome; a painting of ""Ecce Homo"" for the church of Santa Croce in Florence, and a canvas of the Redeemer (1579) for the church of San Salvatore in Bologna. Jacopo Coppi Jacopo Coppi, also called ""Giacomo Coppi"" or ""'Jacopo del Meglio'"" (""the Best"") (Peretola, 1523 - 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto"
"Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the ""Rococo"" style. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period. Successful from the beginning of his career, he has been described by Michael Levey as ""the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century"
"Niccolò Corso Niccolò Corso, also known as Niccolò di Lombarduccio,(1446- circa 1512) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Liguria. The majority of his known pictures are located in the cloister and refectory of the monastery of the Olivetan Fathers at Quarto, near Genoa. He was the son of a certain Lombarduccio, a native of Corsica and was probably born in Liguria around 1446. His family name ""Corso"" () is a reference to his Corsican roots. The first documentary evidence on the artists dates to 15 September 1469 when a 'Nicola de Corsus Plebs Vici Corsice"
"Giovanni Battista Borghesi Giovan Battista Borghesi"", also called ""Giovanni Battista or Giambattista (25 November 1790 – 11 December 1846) was an Italian painter and scenic designer of the Neoclassic period, active mainly in Parma. He studied in Parma under Biagio Martini. Among his first works were frescoes of the ""Death of Hector"" and ""Flight of the Vestals"" painted for the house of his uncle, Pietro Borghesi. He painted a ""Madonna and Child with Saints"" for the church of Santa Margherita in Colorno; a ""Sant'Antonio Abate"" for the church of Sant'Uldarico; and a ""Trinity"" altarpiece (1822) for the Oratory of Trinità"
"of his works. He died in Florence. Jacopo Ligozzi Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist. His art can be categorized as late-Renaissance and Mannerist styles. Born in Verona, he was the son of the artist Giovanni Ermano Ligozzi, and part of a large family of painters and artisans. After a time in the Habsburg court in Vienna, where he displayed drawings of animal and botanical specimens, he was invited to come to Florence and became one of the court artists for the Medici. Upon the death of Giorgio Vasari in 1574, he became head of"
"Battista Brazzè (""Il Bigio""), Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi. Finally, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, after the 1620s he completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings . Jacopo da Empoli Jacopo da Empoli (30 April 1551 – 30 September 1640) was an Italian Florentine Reformist painter. Born in Florence as Jacopo Chimenti (Empoli being the birthplace of his father), he worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under Maso da San Friano. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism), Santi di Tito, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded"
"Portrait of Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò Portrait of Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò is a 1515 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto and now in the National Gallery, London. It is signed and dated ""L.[aurentius] Lotus P.[inxit] / 1515"". Its subjects have been identified via inscriptions scattered throughout the painting. They both practised medicine and pharmacy in Bergamo, selling iron vitriol from a shop on Piazza Vecchia - it was probably the first portrait Lotto produced in that city. It was probably in Bergamo. It was retained by its subjects' descendents until"
"Jacopo Bellini Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400 – c. 1470) was one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy. His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous painters. Few of Bellini's paintings still exist, but his surviving sketch-books (one in the British Museum and one in the Louvre) show an interest in landscape and elaborate architectural design and are his most important legacy. His surviving works show how he accommodated linear perspective to the decorative patterns and rich colors of Venetian painting. Born in Venice, Jacopo had probably"
"Jacopo Ripanda Jacopo Ripanda (Bologna, 15th century - Rome, c.1516) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance era. His works were mainly undertaken in his home town of Bologna, and in Rome, as a result of his numerous papal commissions for frescoes in churches and Vatican palaces. Little is known of the life and work of this painter, though he was highly admired in his lifetime. He was probably born in Bologna in the second half of the fifteenth century, from which the artist must have left at a fairly young age to travel to Rome during the pontificate of"
"most recently discovered work of Agresti came to light in June 2009 in Cesena Cathedral, an oil on copper in depicting the patron saint of the city, Saint John the Baptist, assigned to the old master by Alex Cavallucci. The Church of St John Maddermarket in Norwich has a large oil canvas of ""The Last Supper"" which, although attributed to Agresti, has no verifiable provenance. One of his pupils was Litardo Piccioli. Livio Agresti Livio Agresti (1508–1580), also called Ritius or Ricciutello, was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period, active both in his native city of"
"Giovanni Battista Lucini Giovanni Battista Lucini or Giovan Battista Lucini (9 July 1639 in Crema – 14 or 15 September 1686 in Crema) was an Italian painter who produced many religious compositions for the religious institutions in Crema. He was active in the region in and around Crema throughout his short career. His innovative works anticipate artistic trends in Lombardy and Venice in the 18th century. Giovanni Battista Lucini was born in Vaiano Cremasco as the son of Girolamo Lucini and Laura Fogarola. His father was of noble descent and had been elected in 1626 as a member of the"
"Giovanni Costa Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary. Giovanni Costa was born in Rome on 15 October 1826, the fourteenth of the sixteen children of Gioacchino Costa (died 1842) and Maria Chiappi (died 1857). His father was from Santa Margherita Ligure and as a young man had moved to Rome, where he opened a wool-spinning factory and achieved wealth and position. The family lived in a large house in Piazza San Francesco a Ripa, in Trastevere, close to the factory. When he was 12"
"output can be found in the Uffizi in Florence and the Hermitage and also appear on the international art market. Jan Baptist Lambrechts Jan Baptist Lambrechts (baptised 28 February 1680 - after 1731) was an 18th-century Flemish painter. He is mainly known for his genre scenes of drinkers, cooks, maids, vegetable salesmen and dancing farmers. Jan Baptist Lambrechts was born in Antwerp as the son of Jacob and Anna Deckers. His parents died when he was still very young. His stepbrother Jeroom Lambrechts allowed him to develop his artistic skills through self study. In 1703 he left for Lille with"
"Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano (ca. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, and studying under Bonifazio Veronese in Venice, he painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre scenes . Bassano's pictures were very popular in Venice because of their depiction of animals and nocturnal scenes. His four sons: Francesco Bassano the Younger, Giovanni Battista da Ponte, Leandro Bassano, and Girolamo da Ponte, also"
"Carmelo"" for the parish church of Verbosca . He worked with Pietro Bellotto in Koper, painting a ""Mystery of the Rosary"" and ""Last Supper"". For the church of Church of S. Antonio Abate in Sasso, in Gargnano, he painted a ""Madonna of the Rosary"" in 1658. Stefano Celesti Stefano Celesti (active after 1635) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Venice and it territories on the mainland. He was born in Venice (or possibly Istria), the son of the Baroque Venetian painter Andrea Celesti. He was active in Istria, Brescia, and near Lago di Garda. In 1638"
"Saint John the Baptist (""Trittico di Baccaresca"", ca. 1565, Gubbio, Museo Diocesano). The latter work was commissioned by Gabriele, Filippo and Antonio Gabrielli for the church in their castle at Baccaresca, near Gubbio. Among his pupils were his son (or brother) Virgilio (trained also in Rome with Daniele da Volterra, and died in Gubbio in 1621); Mario Marioni; Giovanni Maria Baldassini (active 1540-1601); Bernardino Brozzi (1555-1617); and one of the more prominent painters of Gubbio, Felice Damiani. Benedetto Nucci Benedetto Nucci (1515–1587) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism period. He was born in Cagli. He was a"
"Jacob van der Kerckhoven Jacob van der Kerckhove or Jacques van de Kerckhoven, known in Italy as Giacomo da Castello (1636/1637 – after 1712), was a Flemish painter who after training in Antwerp was active in the Veneto region in Italy. He was one of the most prominent still life and animal specialists active in the Veneto territory around the turn of the 18th century. Jacob van der Kerckhoven was likely born in Antwerp in 1636 or 1637. He was registered at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Jan Fyt in the year 1649-1640. Jan Fyt"