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: 6 (S) SANDRO BOTTICELLI (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, Florence 1445-1510) Various hypotheses have been advanced to explain the pseudonym of Botticelli- son of a leather tanner- who was first apprenticed to a goldsmith, perhaps a certain "Botticello". His brother Anton... SCIPIONE (Gino Bonichi, Macerata 1904 - Arco, Trento, 1933) Surprising, in Scipione, is a singular conjunction of local and cosmopolitan elements. Rome is not only the background of many paintings but also an electively Baroque locale, as if the artist wi... SEBASTIANO RICCI (Belluno 1659 - Venice 1734) At the age of fourteen Sebastiano was already an apprentice in Venice. Active at Bologna and Parma in the 1680s, he was in Rome in 1691; back in Venice in 1696, at Vienna in 1702 and immediately afterward in Florence. ... SILVESTRO LEGA (Modigliana, Forlė, 1826 - Florence 1895) A pupil of Bezzuoli at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts and then, still at Florence, of Mussini, he served his apprenticeship under the sign of romantic historical painting. A republican, he fought in 184... SIMONE MARTINI (Siena c.1284- Avignone 1344) In a sonnet by Francesco Petrarch, Simone flies up to Paradise to paint the "lovely face" of the mythical Laura beloved by the poet. Nothing is known of that portrait on parchment, which would be the first example of ... SOUTHERN ITALIAN MINIATOR (active in the middle of the 13th century) The Kingdom of Sicily, governed by Frederick II of Swabia (1194-1250) and later by his son Manfredi (crowned in 1258) possessed cultural traits so original as to figure among the most significant in the w...