Early Renaissance Artists
Italian Painters and Sculptors of the Quattrocento.
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The Expulsion from the Garden
of Eden (detail), Brancacci Chapel,
Florence (c.1426-7) by Tommaso
Masaccio.

Early Renaissance Artists (1400-1490)

The revival in the visual arts of painting, drawing and sculpture, known as the Renaissance or Rinascimento, began in the 14th century (trecento), in Italy, and was initially influenced by Gothic art forms and the Proto-Renaissance art of Giotto (1267-1337), the three important founders of this artistic revival were the Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), and the Florentine painters Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, better known as Masaccio (1401-1428), and the sculptor Donatello (1386-1466). Other major figures included: Piero della Francesca (1422-1492). Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) and Alessandro Botticelli (1445-1510).

See below for a chronological list of other early Renaissance artists. Unless otherwise indicated, artists are of Italian origin and their speciality is painting.


Madonna and Child (c.1480s)
by Giovanni Bellini.

List of Early Renaissance Artists

Giotto di Bondone 1267-1337
Bernardo Daddi 1290-1348
Taddeo Gaddi 1300-1366
Maso di Banco 1320-1350
Agnolo Gaddi 1345-1396
Spinello Aretino 1350-1410
Francesco di Valdambrino 1363-1435 Sculptor
Jacobello Del Fiore 1370-1439
Jacopo della Quercia 1371-1438 Sculptor
Stefano di Zevio 1375-1451
Filippo Brunelleschi 1377-1446 Sculptor/Architect
Lorenzo Ghiberti 1378-1455 Sculptor
Nanni di Banco 1380-1421 Sculptor
Masolino da Panicale 1383-1447


The Lamentation Over The Dead Christ (1490) by Andrea Mantegna.

Donatello 1386-1466 Sculptor
Fra Angelico 1387-1455
Parri Spinelli 1387-1453
Michelino da Besozzo 1388-1450
Andrea di Bartolo 1389-1428
Sassetta 1390-1450
Piero di Niccolo Lamberti 1393-1435 Sculptor
Nicolo di Pietro 1394-1440
Pisanello 1395-1455
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo 1396-1472 Sculptor/Architect
Francesco Squarcione 1397-1468
Paolo Uccello 1397-1475

Domenico di Bartolo 1400-1447
Domenico Veneziano 1400-1461
Filarete 1400-1469 Sculptor
Michele Giambono 1400-1462
Bernardo Martorell 1400-1452 Spanish
Michele Pannonio 1400-1464 Hungarian
Luca della Robbia 1400-1482 Sculptor
Giovanni di Paolo 1403-1483
Leon Baptista Alberti 1404-1472 Architect
Bartolome Bermejo 1405-1498 Spanish
Master of the Duke of Bedford 1405-1435 French Miniaturist
Fra Filippo Lippi 1406-1469
Sano di Pietro 1406-1481
Lo Scheggia 1406-1486
Giovanni da Modena 1409-1456
Bernardo Rossellino 1409-1464 Sculptor
Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio 1410-1449
Vecchietta 1410-1480 Painter/Sculptor
Giovanni di Francesco 1412-1459
Jaume Huguet 1415-1492 Spanish
Paolo Romano 1415-1470 Sculptor
Agostino di Duccio 1418-1481 Sculptor
Andrea Bregno 1418-1503 Sculptor/Architect
Zanobi Machiavelli 1418-1479
Nanni di Bartolo 1419-1451 Sculptor
Neri di Bicci 1419-1491
Bertoldo di Giovanni 1420-1491 Sculptor
Giovanni Boccati 1420-1487
Benedetto Bonfigli 1420-1496
Bartolommeo Caporali 1420-1505
Jean Fouquet 1420-1477 French
Benozzo Gozzoli 1420-1497
Antonio Vivarini 1420-1484
Bartolomeo Bon 1421-1464 Sculptor/Architect
Pesellino 1422-1457
Piero della Francesca 1422-1492
Andrea del Castagno 1423-1457
Alessio Baldovinetti 1425-1499
Antonio Bregno 1425-1457 Sculptor/Architect
Niccolo di Liberatore 1425-1502
Antonio Rossellino 1427-1479 Sculptor
Luis Dalmau 1428-1461 Spanish
Gentile Bellini 1429-1507
Mino da Fiesole 1429-1484 Sculptor
Antonello da Messina 1430-1479
Lazzaro Bastiani 1430-1512
Belbello da Pavia 1430-1473 Manuscript Illuminator
Carlo Crivelli 1430-1495
Desiderio da Settignano 1430-1464 Painter/Sculptor
Vincenzo Foppa 1430-1515
Nicolas Froment 1430-1485 French
Francesco Laurana 1430-1502 Dalmatian/ Sculptor
Matteo di Giovanni 1430-1495
Niccolo Fiorentino 1430-1514 Goldsmith
Antoniazzo Romano 1430-1508
Giovanni Santi 1430-1494 Painter/Writer
Cosme Tura 1430-1495
Andrea Mantegna 1431-1506
Savelli Sperandio 1431-1504 Sculptor
Francesco Benaglio 1432-1492
Antonio Pollaiolo 1432-1498 Painter/Sculptor
Marco Zoppo 1433-1478
Francesco del Cossa 1435-1477
Pietro Lombardo 1435-1515 Sculptor
Andrea della Robbia 1435-1525 Sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio 1435-1488 Sculptor/Painter
Benvenuto di Giovanni 1436-1518
Matteo Civitale 1436-1501 Painter/Sculptor
Melozzo da Forli 1438-1494
Francesco di Giorgio Martini 1439-1501 Painter/Sculptor
Cosimo Rosselli 1439-1507
Bartolomeo Bellano 1440-1496 Sculptor
Vittorio Crivelli 1440-1501
Giovanni Dalmata 1440-1510 Dalmatian Sculptor
Jacopo de'Barbari 1440-1515
Fernando Gallego 1440-1507 Spanish
Antonio Rizzo 1440-1499 Sculptor
Bartolomeo Vivarini 1440-1500
Piero Pollaiolo 1441-1496
Benedetto da Maiano 1442-1497 Sculptor
Jacopo del Sellaio 1442-1493
Baldassare Estense 1443-1504
Giuliano da Sangallo 1443-1516 Architect
Bonifacio Bembo 1444-1477
Antonio Marescotti 1444-1462
Biagio d'Antonio da Firenze 1445-1510
Sandro Botticelli 1445-1510
Fra Carnevale 1445-1484
Neroccio 1445-1500
Pietro Perugino 1445-1523
Alvise Vivarini 1445-1505
Francesco Botticini 1446-1498
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo 1447-1522 Sculptor
Domenico da Tolmezzo 1448-1507
Agnolo degli Erri 1448-1482
Domenico Gagini 1449-1492 Sculptor
Domenico Ghirlandaio 1449-1494
Pedro Berruguete 1450-1504 Spanish
Bernardino Jacopi Butinone 1450-1507
Francesco Antonio del Cherico 1450-1470 Miniaturist
Guidoccio Cozzarelli 1450-1516
Ercole de'Roberti 1450-1496
Nuno Goncalves 1450-1471 Portuguese
Guido Mazzoni 1450-1518 Sculptor
Bartolomeo Montagna 1450-1523
Antonio da Fabriano 1451-1486
Attavante Degli Attavanti 1452-1525 Miniaturist
Giacomo Cozzarelli 1453-1515 Sculptor
Martin Bernat 1454-1497 Spanish
Pinturicchio 1454-1513
Pedro Sanchez 1454-1468 Spanish
Ambrogio de Predis 1455-1508
Filippino Lippi 1457-1504
Benedetto Ghirlandaio 1458-1497
Antonio Lombardo 1458-1516 Sculptor
Giambattista Cima da Conegliano 1459-1517
Antico 1460-1528 Sculptor
Francesco Bonsignori 1460-1519
Gherardo di Giovanni 1460-1497 Miniaturist
Niccolo Dell'Arca 1462-1494 Sculptor
Cristoforo Mantegazza 1464-1482 Sculptor
Raffaellino del Garbo 1466-1524
Gil de Siloe 1467-1505 Spanish Sculptor/Architect
Boccaccio Boccaccino 1468-1525
Clemente da Urbino 1468
Lorenzo di Alessandro da Sanseverino 1468-1503
Andrea Previtali 1470-1528
Il Riccio 1470-1532 Sculptor
Silvestro Dell'Acquila 1471-1504 Sculptor
Jacometto 1472-1497
Antonio Mantegazza 1472-1495 Sculptor
Nicola di Maestro Antonio d'Ancona 1472
Mariotto Albertinelli 1474-1515
Benedetto da Rovezzano 1474-1554 Sculptor
Zoan Andrea 1475-1505 Painter/Printmaker
Jean Barbet 1475-1514 French
Bartolomeo di Giovanni 1475-1511
Benedetto Briosco 1477-1514 Sculptor
Carlo di Braccesco 1478-1501
Pietro da Rho 1480-1508 Sculptor
Tommaso Cazzaniga 1481-1504 Sculptor
Giulio Campagnola 1482-1514 Engraver
Giovanni Mansueti 1484-1526
Camillo Boccaccino 1504-1546

The Early Renaissance was followed by the High Renaissance (c.1490-1530) and Mannerism (c.1530-1600).

For details of Old Masters and famous sculptors from these periods, please see: High Renaissance Artists and Mannerist Artists.

• For other art movements and periods, see: History of Art.
• For styles of painting and sculpture in Ireland, see: Irish Art

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