Italian artists

Artists A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z   [*]  Search Artists Keywords Artists: 30 (G) GAETANO PREVIATI (Ferrara 1852- Lavagna, Genoa, 1920) Close to the Scapigliati, the young Previati became known for great canvases of patriotic and literary subjects. He later adopted the divisionist technique and emerged as painter of ideas (his first illustratio... GIACOMO BALLA (Turin 1871 - Rome 1958) In Rome since 1895, Balla was a precursor whose importance as such has only recently been recognized. Imaginative experimenter, unconventional but not drastic, he first transferred to the Futurist avant garde the research ... GIACOMO CERUTI (known as Il Pitocchetto, Milan 1698 -1767) Active at Brescia in his youth, Ceruti was at Venice in 1736; later at Piacenza, then again at Brescia and Milan. A successful portrait painter, he also painted works of religious subject and still lifes... GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO (Venice 1696-Madrid 1770) The son of Orsetta and Domenico Tiepolo, "merchant of naval supply shop", Tiepolo was both artist and adept, sophisticated entrepreneur, the owner of a large workshop engaged in important projects. Two of his seven childr... GIAMBOLOGNA (Jean de Boulogne, Douai 1529-Florence 1608) The artist career of Gianbologna is a tangible sign of the vital cultural exchange that took place, throughout the Renaissance, between the lands of Flanders and Italy. Trained in his homeland, the arti... GIANDOMENICO TIEPOLO ( Venice 1727 - 1804 ) His father's pupil, ad soon collaborator, Giandomenico was a versatile and discerning artist. Resembling Giambattista in his taste for the bizarre and for loose brushstrokes, he reveals in the frescoes of Villa Valmarana and... GIANLORENZO BERNINI (Naples, December 7, 1598 - Rome, November 28,1680) Painter, sculptor, architect, set designer and playwright, Bernini was considered by his contemporaries the Michelangelo of his time. Pope Urban VIII Barberini (1623-44) even saw in the artist's ver... GINO ROSSI (Venice 1884 - Sant' Artemio di Treviso 1947) The apprenticeship of the intense, cosmopolitan artist Gino Rossi was predominantly French. In Brittany in 1907, then in Paris, Belgium and Holland, he was close to the Nabis and Simbolist trends. His ... GINO SEVERINI (Cortona 1883 - Paris 1966) Already a divisionist painter in Rome, a friend of Balla and Boccioni, Severini moved to Paris in 1906, resolved to become a versatile, refined peintre de la vie moderne. He adhered to Futurism at the very start of the ... GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (Vòlos,Greece 1888-Rome 1978) Born in Greece of Italian parents - his father was a railway engineer, his mother a Genoese aristocrat - De Chirico, with his brother Alberto Savinio, constitutes an exception in the Italian artistic and cultural scen... GIORGIO MORANDI (Bologna 1890 - 1964) Despite Morandi's provocatively Futurist debut, his career is exemplary for reserve and apparent detachment from contemporary culture and the loudly proclaimed politics of the times. Disinclined to involvement in the organisa... GIORGIO VASARI (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574) Painter, architect and art historian. He began his broad humanist education with the glass painter Guillaume de Marcillat in Arezzo and continued his apprenticeship from 1524 in Florence with Andrea del Sarto and Ba... GIOTTO (Agnolo di Bondone, Colle di Vespignano c.1266 - Florence 1337) Representing a crucial turning point in Medieval painting, Giotto is by unanimous consensus the most genial, versatile artist of his age. His contemporaries already compared him to th... GIOVAN BATTISTA PIAZZETTA (Venice 1683 - 1754) Son of a modest sculptor, Piazzetta was at Bologna in the early years of the century, where he met Crespi. Settled in Venice starting from 1711, he was first the proprietor of a successful workshop and later, starting in 1750... GIOVANNI BELLINI Venice 1430-1516) Bellini's long career was to form the backbone of Venetian Renaissance painting. The brother of Gentile (c.1429-1507), also a painter, he learned the first rudiments from his father Jacopo, head of a prolific workshop. Giovanni w... GIOVANNI DUPRE' (Siena 1817 - Florence 1882) Trained at the Siena Academy, Dupré emerged as an artist in the 1840s, carrying the cultured, tempered naturalism of Bartolini toward cruder effects. An eclectic artist of wide renown, capable of conceiving and accompl... GIOVANNI FATTORI (Livorno 1825 - Florence 1908) In Florence to study painting, Fattori was torn between the practice of art and patriotic activism. In 1859 he began a series of scenes of military life that won him his first acclaim, and he was always to remain in... GIOVANNI LANFRANCO (Terenzo,Parma,1582- Rome 1647) It can be stated without exaggeration that the art of Giovanni Lanfranco represents a synthesis of the finest painting tradition of the Po region. A pupil of Agostino Carracci, Lanfranco took from him a love for the... GIOVANNI SEGANTINI (Arco, Trento, 1858 - Shafberg sul Maloja, Engandina, 1899) Trained at the Brera Academy, Segantini was close to the naturalists and the Scapigliati. In contact with Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, owner of a gallery in Milan, artist, critic, art theor... GIULIO PAOLINI ( Genoa 1940 ) His art is distinguished by rigour and restrained, modernistic elegance. Apparently discerning and consistent, not devoid of self- citation and thematic reiteration, it reveals a kind of natural, relaxed inner discourse. His first w... GIUSEPPE BOSSI (Busto Arsizio 1777 - Milan 1815) A passionate and versatile artist, refined man of culture, historian and art critic, Giuseppe Bossi was both artist and cultural organizer, an Enlightenment intellectual who firmly believed in the morality of the ... GIUSEPPE DE NITTIS (Barletta 1846 - Saint German en Laye 1884) After training at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, De Nittis painted landscapes en plain air which were appreciated by the Macchiaioli, encountered at Florence in 1867. Moving to Paris in 1868, the am... GIUSEPPE MARIA CRESPI (known as Lo Spagnolo, Bologna 1665 - 1747) A highly cultivated artist whose training was complex and prolonged - he visited Parma, Urbino, and Venice in voyages of study; was in Florence between 1708 and 1709, called there by the Grand Duke Ferdi... GIUSEPPE PELLIZZA DA VOLPEDO (Volpedo, Alessandria, 1868 - 1907) Training first at the Brera Academy, then at the Rome and Florence Academies, the artist went to Paris in 1889 to visit the Universal Exposition. Upon returning to Volpedo, where his family owned land, he painti... GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI (Meda 1904 - Como 1943) Terragni is, with Antonio Sant' Elia, a milestone in the Italian modern movement. A leading figure in the rationalist movement, which he joined at a very young age, he conceived of the new architecture as a severe, heroic c... GIUSEPPE VALADIER (Rome 1762 - 1839) Son of a goldsmith and bronze smelter, Valadier was to emancipate the profession of architect from its customary task of constructing individual buildings. With him the architect became urban planner. Laying aside the guise of ... GUERCINO (Giovan Francesco Barbieri, Cento, Ferrara,1591-Bologna 1666) After beginning as a self-taught artist Guercino worked in the workshop of Benedetto Gennari. He also worked for Alessandro Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna and later Cardinal, painting ... GUGLIELMO (active in Pisa, second half of the 12th century) "Exellent in art", according to an inscription now lost, Guglielmo is considered the forerunner of Pisa's great Medieval sculpture. He is buried in and commemorated on the façade of the Cathedral a... GUIDO CAGNACCI (Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, Forlì, 1601-Vienna 1663) Only recently have critics justly reassessed the work of Guido Cagnacci, which was entirely unappreciated by his contemporaries. Cesare Malvasia in fact(1616-83) wrote in his Lives of the Bolog... GUIDO RENI The young Guido Reni was to have become a musician by profession, since his father Daniele had directed him toward the study of music. His father's choice was justified by the fact that Daniele himself, a musician employed by the city's Signoria, had...