Catholic painters

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of survivin

Spanish artist (1904–1989)

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)

Flemish painter (1577–1640)

Spanish painter (1599-1660)

Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

Italian painter (1445–1510)

Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.

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

Dutch painter (c. 1450–1516)

Flemish painter (1526–1569)

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 151831 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; ; ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed . His work is characterised by muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.

Spanish painter (1598–1664)

Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)

French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)

Italian painter of the Renaissance (1528–1588)

Italian Early Renaissance painter

15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)

Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)

Italian Baroque painter (1593-1651)

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)

Italian Renaissance painter (1431-1506)

Italian painter (1696–1770)

Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523)

Duccio di Buoninsegna ( , ; – ), commonly known as just Duccio, was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages, and is credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento Gothic style and the Sienese school.

early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399–1464)

Italian painter (1486-1530)

Italian painter (1397-1475)

Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1479)

Italian Renaissance painter (1489–1534)

Bolognese painter (1575–1642)

17th-century French painter and art theorist (1619—1690)

Italian painter

Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1406–1469)

German Renaissance painter (c.1480–1528)

German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)

Jacopo Carucci or Carrucci (; May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo (da) Pontormo or simply Pontormo (), was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.

Italian Renaissance painter (c.1450-1523)

Bolognese painter (1560–1609)

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.

French painter (c. 1420–1481)

Italian painter (1457–1504)

Italian painter (1290-1348)

Italian painter and architect (1499–1546)

Italian Renaissance painter (1472-1517)

Italian painter and architect of the High Baroque (1596-1669)

Italian painter (1480–1556)

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (8 February 1591 – 22 December 1666), better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner contrasts with the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style.

Italian painter (1552–1614)

Italian painter (1370–1427)

Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.

Flemish painter (c.1440-1482)

French painter (1590-1649)

Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1557-1602)

Italian painter (1439-1507)

Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1555-1619)