Renaissance masters
Da Vinci's artistic peers
Renaissance masters are the celebrated artists of the European Renaissance, roughly the 14th through 17th centuries, whose work defined Western artistic ideals.
The term typically evokes painters and sculptors like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli.
She studied the Renaissance masters in Florence.
The phrase implies technical brilliance and enduring influence—comparing someone to the Renaissance masters is high praise.
- HumanismMovement centering individual worth
- Leonardo da VinciItalian artist-scientist-engineer
- DonatelloQuattrocento Florentine sculptor
- Medici familyFlorentine banking dynasty
- patron of the artsFunder of cultural work
Dante Alighieri · Petrarch · oil painting · Thomas More · Sandro Botticelli · Giordano Bruno · Galileo Galilei · Johannes Kepler · Nicolaus Copernicus · Tycho Brahe · Francis Bacon · Michelangelo · Sistine Chapel · Titian · Caravaggio · linear perspective · Raphael · El Greco
- Italian figuresGaribaldi, Verdi, Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composers, Italian artists
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- Religious Artistsiconographer, Giotto, stained glass artist, illuminators
Renaissance mastersSunday painters
Amateur recreational artists
dilettantes · apprentices · journeymen · folk artists · outsider artists
Renaissance mastersDadaists
Absurdist art movement members
iconoclasts · conceptual artists · abstract expressionists · minimalists · primitivists
Renaissance, masters, master, mastery, masterful, masterfully, mastered, mastering, masterly