Tintoretto

His precise birth date is unknown, as it seems he had misinformed people about his age throughout his lifetime. He was one of the most famous, versatile and skilled Italian Renaissance painters, particularly commended for his skills with fine brushwork and colors. His artwork consisted of wide range of subjects, from portraiture, to landscape, to mythological scenes, to spiritual with a constant change in his style over the time. He had successfully released over 600 artworks and was the first painter ever to paint primarily for the overseas clientele.

From the late fifteenth century to the genesis of the sixteenth, a new movement influenced art in Europe, expanding the bleak limits of past art and created some of the most memorable masterpieces in history. The creators of these artworks during these decades of the Renaissance include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raphael Sanzio. Influenced and sometimes driven competitively by each other, these artists share differences and similarities in their life, art style and techniques, and interests.

Tiziano Vecellio, also known as Titian was an Italian painter, born sometime around 1488 and died around 1576. Titian was one of the furthermost important members of the sixteenth century Venetian school. Titian’s painting career was prosperous from the start but over the years his style changed drastically and he retained a lifelong interest in color, which

“There is no greater name in Italian art—therefore, no greater in art—than that of Titian,” (Claude Phillips “Earlier Works of Titian”1897 page 5). This artist was more than just a normal painter that played around in his work studio; he was the father of what was bound to become something greater than he even believed. We watched him work with imaginative textures and animated colors to generate the masterpieces of not only the Renaissance; but also of modern day work. All kinds of artists—painters, singers, writers, sculptures—are exploring their muse by studying how he worked with his paint brush; they idolize him and one day want their work to be as exceedingly renowned as Titian’s. His work has been carried on for many years after his

Michelangelo also was an Italian artist. He lived from 1475 to 1564. Because he preferred to work alone, Michelangelo refused to have apprentices. Although one of his most famous works is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he preferred to sculpt. At age 23,

"After the death of Raphael, the sixteenth century saw a shift in the dominance in art from Florence and Rome to Venice in northern Italy." The only painter who was still of great importance for central Italy was Michelangelo, who finally died in 1564 and left the region around Florence and Rome behind with no more artists worth mentioning. Basing on the foundation laid down by Giovanni Bellini "Venice gradually took over the leadership in painting" .

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio better known as simply Caravaggio was an Italian Baroque master painter born in Italy around 1571. After he apprenticed with a painter in Milan, he moved to Rome, where he lived for most of his life. His work influenced painters around Europe. He’s most known for his gruesome subjects and use of Tenebrism, which was a technique that used heavy shadow to

Therefore one of his grammar school friends Domenico Ghirlandaio realized this and introduced him to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, his father soon realized he had no interest in becoming a banker, therefore agreed to apprentice him to the fashionable Florentine painter's workshop. Only after a year Michelangelo was offered an extraordinary opportunity to study classical sculpture in the Medici gardens.Michelangelo fled to Bologna after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s death, where he continued his study.In 1495 he moved back to Florence in 1495 to begin work as a sculptor, modeling his style after masterpieces of classical antiquity. In 1498 he moved to rome where he got commissioned by Jean Bilhères de La Graulas, a representative of the French King Charles VIII to the pope, where he did the statue pieta. Upon completion he moved back to Florence where he was now seen as a prominent figure in the art industry, soon after he moved back he started work on the statue of david.After this he really blew up getting asked to do works such as decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the creation of adam. After a brief illness, Michelangelo in 1564, coincidentally he is one of the only artists during this time to see the popularity of his art during his lifetime. Even though these two have different ways of achieving the point they are today, there's

Francesco used a style that I really enjoy, it is called pittura di tocco and it is a style known for its small dotting in the art work and it's small but clean brush strokes. It's a style that not many artist can lock down it is very very advanced. He started in venice italy when he was passed down a shop from his father who was deceased and he worked alongside his brother to make and sell hand made paintings. His paintings are beautiful painting like the venetian capriccio which is a landscape painting of the molo towards santa Maria. He was born october 1712 and when his father passed away in the year 1716 and that's when he had the shop passed down to him, he was only 4 when the shop was handed down to him and his brother. He worked with

His early paintings had an unconventional, unique, and unfinished look about them. The images were known to everyone in everyday life.

El Greco's artistic formation in Rome and Venice, reflects the influence of roman mannerist designs (e.g Michaelangelo's masterfully polished drawings) and that of the Venetian school of painting with its emphasis in the richness and variety of colors, the use of pigments to achieve the impression of depth and brightness,

Giovanni Bellini, (born c. 1430, Venice [Italy]—died 1516, Venice), Italian painter who, in his work, reflects the increasing interest of the Venetian artistic milieu in the stylistic innovations and concerns of the Renaissance (metmuseum). Bellini was one of the most influential Venetian artists. He lived and worked in Venice all his life; his career spanned 65 years. Little is known about Bellini’s family. Bellini’s father, Jacopo, a painter was a pupil of the Gentile da Fabriano, in any case, Jacopo introduced the principles of the Florentine Renaissance to Venice before either of his sons (Britannica). Jacopo strove to ensure that his sons would become distinguished painters as well and, it is said, often pitted them each other.

Leonardo’s masterpiece painting was done in fresco style with oil and tempera paints. His painting took place in the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan (1494-1498). He chose to present his work during the Italian High Renaissance Period. Although, it was known to be one of his greatest works, his painting was in poor condition as he used fresco style with oil and tempera paints on a dry plaster, due to which the colors did not blend well (Italian Renaissance, par.1). While, Tintoretto’s painting was done as an oil painting on a canvas which took the place in Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy (1592 to 1594). He chose to present his work during the Mannerism period. Tintoretto’s painting was in a much better condition as it is

El Greco, at the age of 26, like other Greek artists had travelled to Venice and came under the influence of Titian and Tintoretto. During his stay in Italy, he widened his style with aspects of Mannerism and

With the continuous growth of paintings and artists, prestige for art increased dramatically to the point in which religious aspects were shown through landscapes, portraits, and temperas. This then allowed the creation of new styles and mathematical input that manifested everyday life with religious aspects. One such artist was Giovanni Bellini who introduced bright, rich, strong colors into his palette and landscapes that expressed the happiness, calmness, and prosperity that Italy carried throughout the Renaissance. These characteristics and styles of paintings subsequently became a popular Venetian cornerstone. Other important figures in the Italian Renaissance that demonstrated the movement?s ideas through their ingenious paintings and architectural methods were Pier Della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti. Francesca, who was and expert in mathematics, developed the art form of perspective. Alberti, on the other hand, as an architect developed the pediment which became popular throughout the entire Renaissance. His monasteries and churches depicted many of the religious ideas, as evident in one of his famous works, the Santa Maria Novella. All in all, the use of the common religious themes such as the annunciation, adoration, Crucifixion, and the popular Madonna