LibGuides: Artists You Should Know: Renaissance

Notable Renaissance Artists (1400-1600)

If you wish to be generally familiar with art history, here is a short list of artists you should know from this period:

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Movement(s)	Primary Medium	Representative Works
Bosch, Hieronymus ND653 .B65	~1450	1516	Dutch	Early Netherlandish	Painting	The Garden of Earthly Delights The Temptation of St. Anthony
Botticelli, Sandro ND623 .B7	~1445	1510	Italian (Florentine)	Renaissance	Painting	The Birth of Venus Primavera
Da Vinci, Leonardo ND623 .L5	1452	1519	Italian	High Renaissance Realism	Painting Drawing	Mona Lisa The Last Supper The Vitruvian Man
Donatello NB623 .D7	~1386	1466	Italian (Florentine)	Early Renaissance	Sculpture	St. John the Evangelist David Gattamelata
Dürer, Albrecht ND588 .D9	1471	1528	German	Renaissance	Painting Woodcuts	Self-Portrait at 26 Knight, Death, and the Devil Praying Hands
El Greco ND813 .T4	1541	1614	Cretan	Mannerism	Painting Sculpture	The Assumption of the Virgin The Burial of Count Orgaz
Fra Angelico ND623 .F5	~1395	1455	Italian (Florentine)	Early Renaissance	Painting Frescoes	The Virgin of the Annunciation The Deposition The Last Judgement
Ghiberti, Lorenzo ND623 .G45	1378	1455	Italian (Florentine)	Early Renaissance	Sculpture	The Gates of Paradise St. John the Baptist
Michelangelo NB623 .B9 ND623.B9	1475	1564	Italian	High Renaissance	Sculpture Painting	David Pieta The Last Judgement Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Raphael (Sanzio) ND623 .R2 - .R38	1483	1520	Italian	High Renaissance	Painting	The School of Athens Sistine Madonna Madonna of the Meadow
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) ND621 .V5	~1490	1576	Italian (Venetian)	Renaissance	Painting	Assumption of the Virgin The Danaë Bacchus and Ariadne

Renaissance Artists (1400-1600)

If you are a student of Art or Art History, here is a more detailed list of artists you should know from this period:

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Movement(s)	Primary Medium	Representative Works
Alberti, Leon Battista NA1123 .A5	1404	1472	Italian	Italian Renaissance	Architecture	Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Mantua
Bonacolsi, Pier Jacopo	~1460	1528	(North) Italian	Renaissance	Sculpture	Antonia del Balzo Medallion Meleager
Bosch, Hieronymus ND653 .B65	~1450	1516	Dutch	Early Netherlandish	Painting	The Garden of Earthly Delights The Temptation of St. Anthony
Botticelli, Sandro ND623 .B7	~1445	1510	Italian (Florentine)	Renaissance	Painting	The Birth of Venus Primavera
Brunelleschi, Filippo NA1123 .B8	1377	1446	Italian	Italian Renaissance	Architecture Sculpture	Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence
Da Vinci, Leonardo ND623 .L5	1452	1519	Italian	High Renaissance Realism	Painting Drawing	Mona Lisa The Last Supper The Vitruvian Man
David, Gerard ND673 .D3	~1460	1523	Dutch	Early Netherlandish	Painting	Madonna with Angels and Saints The Marriage of St. Catherine
Donatello NB623 .D7	~1386	1466	Italian (Florentine)	Early Renaissance	Sculpture	St. John the Evangelist David Gattamelata
Dürer, Albrecht ND588 .D9	1471	1528	German	Renaissance	Painting Woodcuts	Self-Portrait at 28 Knight, Death, and the Devil Praying Hands
El Greco ND813 .T4	1541	1614	Cretan	Mannerism	Painting Sculpture	The Assumption of the Virgin The Burial of Count Orgaz
Fra Angelico ND623 .F5	~1395	1455	Italian (Florentine)	Early Renaissance	Painting Frescoes	The Virgin of the Annunciation The Deposition The Last Judgement
Ghiberti, Lorenzo ND623 .G45	1378	1455	Italian (Florentine)	Early Renaissance	Sculpture	The Gates of Paradise St. John the Baptist
Gonçalves, Nuno ND833 .G6	fl. 1450-1471		Portuguese	Portuguese Renaissance	Painting	Portrait of Princess Saint Joana Panels of St. Vincent Outside the Walls
Hering, Loy	~1485	1564	German	Renaissance	Sculpture	Saint Willibald of Eichstätt Annunciation
Michelangelo NB623 .B9 ND623.B9	1475	1564	Italian	High Renaissance	Sculpture Painting	David Pieta The Last Judgement Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Ordóñez, Bartolomé	~1480	1520	Spanish	Renaissance	Sculpture	Cathedral of Barcelona choir stalls & retrochoir
Raphael (Sanzio) ND623 .R2 - .R38	1483	1520	Italian	High Renaissance	Painting	The School of Athens Sistine Madonna Madonna of the Meadow
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) ND621 .V5	~1490	1576	Italian (Venetian)	Renaissance	Painting	Assumption of the Virgin The Danaë Bacchus and Ariadne
van Cleve, Joos	~1485	1540/1	Dutch	Renaissance	Painting	Death of the Virgin
van Eyck, Jan ND673 .E87	~1390	~1441	Dutch	Early Netherlandish Realism	Painting	Ghent Altarpiece Arnolfini Portrait