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Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)
Pinturicchio
220px|thumb|Crucifixion between Sts. Jerome and Christopher|The Crucifixion with Sts. Jerome and Christopher, 1471, oil on wood, 59 × 40 cm, [[Galleria Borghese, Rome]] 220px|thumb|Fresco at Siena Cathedral depicting [[Pope Pius II]] Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (, ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian Renaissance painter. He acquired his nickname (meaning "little painter") because of his small stature and he used it to sign some of his artworks that he produced during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Scrovegni Chapel
chapel in Padua, Italy
Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio
Romanesque church in Milan
Monza Cathedral
cathedral church of Monza, Italy
Suardi Chapel
oratory/private chapel with cycle of frescos by Lorenzo Lotto
Antonio Viviani
Italian painter (1560-1620)
God the Father with Two Saints
painting by Pietro Perugino
Sacristy of Vasari
building in Naples, Italy
Annunciation
fresco by Antonio da Correggio
Santa Fina Chapel
Chapel in San Gimignano
Baglioni Chapel
building in Spello, Italy
Birth of the Virgin
fresco by Lorenzo Lotto
Life of the Virgin
cycle of frescos by Filippo Lippi