High Renaissance Artists (1490-1530)

The period between 1490 and the sack of Rome by German mercenaries in 1527 witnessed a prolific output in all visual art forms. Oil painting is taken up by many artists, for use on panels, as fresco and tempera decline. The three principal Old Masters of Italian High Renaissance painting and sculpture are: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519); Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520); Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), and Titian (1485-1576); all of whom exerted a huge influence on both their contemporaries and successors down to Picasso. A prime factor in Renaissance art of the period was the implementation of classical values from the art of ancient Greece.

See below for a chronological list of other artists of the High Renaissance. Unless indicated, artists are Italian and their speciality is fine art painting.

School Of Athens (Detail showing the
deep perspective of the painting)
(1510-11) by Raphael.

List of High Renaissance Artists

Giovanni Bellini 1430-1516
Luca Signorelli 1441-1523
Donato Bramante 1444-1514 Architect/Painter
Vittore Carpaccio 1450-1525
Francesco Francia 1450-1517
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Painter/Inventor
Lorenzo di Credi 1458-1537
Alessandro Araldi 1460-1530
Bergognone 1460-1523
Bramantino 1460-1530
Lorenzo Costa 1460-1535
Benedetto Diana 1460-1525

School Of Athens (Detail showing Plato
And Aristotle) (1510-11) by Raphael.

Tullio Lombardo 1460-1532 Sculptor
Sebastiano Mainardi 1460-1513
Andrea Solario 1460-1524
Piero di Cosimo 1462-1521
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio 1466-1516 Painter
Andrea Sansovino 1467-1529 Sculptor
Cristoforo Solari 1468-1524 Sculptor
Francesco Granacci 1469-1543
Giovanni della Robbia 1469-1529 Sculptor
Bartolomeo Veneto 1470-1531
Marco Basaiti 1470-1530
Michele da Verona 1470-1540
Gian Cristoforo Romano 1470-1512 Sculptor

Bacchanal Of The Andrians (detail)
(1523-25) by Titian.

For details of painting and sculpture
in specific Italian cities, see:

Renaissance Art in Florence
Renaissance Art in Rome
Renaissance Art in Venice

HIGH RENAISSANCE HISTORY
Many artists from this era are
profiled in "Lives of The Artists"
(published 1550) by the art historian
Giorgio Vasari.

RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE
See Renaissance Sculptors.

EVOLUTION OF VISUAL ART
For the chronology and dates
of key events in the evolution
of visual arts around the world
see: History of Art Timeline.

Gaudenzio Ferrari 1471-1546
Fra Bartolommeo 1472-1517
Pietro Torrigiano 1472-1528 Sculptor
Giovanni Francesco Rustici 1474-1554 Sculptor
Giuliano Bugiardini 1475-1554
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 Painter/Sculptor
Marcantonio Raimondi 1475-1534 Engraver
Cesare da Sesto 1477-1523
Giorgione 1477-1510
Giovanni Francesco Caroto 1480-1555
Lorenzo Lotto 1480-1556
Bernardino Luini 1480-1532
Ludovico Mazzolino 1480-1528
Palma Vecchio 1480-1528
Vincenzo di Catena 1480-1531
Garofalo 1481-1559
Baldassare Peruzzi 1481-1536 Painter/Architect
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio 1483-1561
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) 1483-1520
Franciabigio 1484-1525
Girolamo Romanino 1484-1562
Francesco da Sangallo 1484-1576 Sculptor
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1485-1576
Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) Sculptor, Venetian Architect
Andrea del Sarto 1486-1530
Andrea del Brescianino 1487-1524
Bonifacio Veronese 1487-1553
Giovanni da Nola 1488-1558 Sculptor
Bernardino Licinio 1489-1565
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489-1534)
Giovanni Cariani 1490-1547
Ortolano Ferrarese 1490-1525
Francesco Beccaruzzi 1492-1563
Domenico Puligo 1492-1527
Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) Florentine Sculptor
Francesco Bacchiacca 1494-1557
Domenico Capriolo 1494-1528
Jean Cousin the Elder 1495-1560 French
Moretto da Brescia 1498-1554
Giulio Romano (c.1499-1546): managed the Raphael Rooms frescoes.
Paris Bordone 1500-1571
Giampietrino 1500-1540
Callisto Piazza 1500-1562
Girolamo da Carpi 1501-1556
Giulio Campi 1502-1572
Pierfrancesco Foschi 1502-1567
Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli 1507-1563 Sculptor
Jacopo Bassano 1510-1592
Brusasorci 1516-1567
Scipione Pulzone 1550-1598

The Italian High Renaissance was preceded by the Proto-Renaissance era (14th Century) and the Early Renaissance (15th Century), and was followed by Mannerism. For details of famous painters and sculptors from these periods, see: Giotto, and Proto-Renaissance Artists, then Early Renaissance Artists and Mannerist Artists. For creative practitioners in Spain during this era, see: Spanish Renaissance Artists.

• For a list of the top painters/sculptors, see: Visual Artists: Greatest.
• For other art movements and periods, see: History of Art.
• For styles of painting and sculpture in Ireland, see: Irish Art Encyclopedia.