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: 10 (M) MARCELLO PIACENTINI (Rome 1881- 1960) Architect and urban planner, Marcello Piacentini was as highly influential in the field of architecture between the two wars as he was later to be harshly criticized. Only recently has his work been approached in more objective t... MARINO MARINI (Pistoia 1901- Forte dei Marmi 1980) Developing during the years when archeological trends were in vogue in Italian art, Marini managed to avoid the most extenuating elegance, the most calculated eclecticism, combining his study of classical/archa... MARIO SIRONI (Sassari 1885- Milan 1961) Sironi, student of engineering at the University of Rome and pupil of the Academy, was a frequent visitor, with Boccioni and Severini, to Balla's studio. His divisionist and futurist apprenticeship was marked by a causti... MASACCIO (Tommaso di Giovanni Cassai, San Giovanni Valdarno 1401-Rome1428) "We have had a very great loss", declared Brunelleschi upon hearing that Masaccio had died in Rome at the age of twenty-six in mysterious circumstances, after having followed Masoli... MASOLINO DA PANICALE (Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini, Panicale in Valdarno 1383-Florence 1440) The critical neglect of this fine master, only in part linked to the late Gothic tradition as often been thought, stems from the fact that after beginning with Ghiberti and Star... MASSIMO D' AZEGLIO (Turin 1798 - 1866) Politician and man of letters, D' Azeglio approached painting for the first time in 1814, at Rome, where he was then living since his father was a minister of the Vatican. He was later to dedicate himself assiduously to this a... MATTIA PRETI (Cavalier Calabrese, Tavena, Catanzaro, 1613-La Valletta 1699) The fact that Mattia was named Knight of Malta when only twenty-nine (1642) caused a sensation, so that he was given the nickname of ''Cavalier Calabrese'', a name that united his regi... MAURIZIO CATTELAN ( Padova 1960 ) Involved first in the sphere of anti- functional design, in the late Eighties Cattelan transferred his tendency toward provocation to a specifically artistic/ figurative activity. His initiatives aim to bring to light concealed sec... MEDARDO ROSSO (Turin 1858 - Milan1928) A pupil at the Brera Academy in 1882 and 1883, Rosso approached the artists of the Scapigliatura, drawing from them a lasting preference for barely suggested forms and insistent effects of light and shadow . Between 1885 ... MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475 Caprese,Tuscany - 1564 Rome) One of the defining figures in Western art history. In 1488, at the age of only thirteen, Michelangelo was already an apprentice in the Ghirlandaio workshop, run by one of the best known and most active families of ...