Francesco Melzi (1491-1570) Francesco Melzi, was an Italian painter born into a family of the Milanese nobility in Lombardy. He was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci. Francesco Melzi’s… Read More
Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) Agnolo di Cosimo; usually known as Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino, was a Florentine Mannerist painter. He lived all his life in Florence, and from his late 30s… Read More
Boccaccio Boccaccino (1467-1525) Boccaccio Boccaccino was a painter of the early Italian Renaissance, belonging to the Emilian school. He is profiled in Vasari’s Le Vite… Read More
Raffaello S Urbino (1483–1520) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and… Read More
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture,… Read More