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Also Known As Giocondo da Verona • Giovanni da Verona
Born c.1433 • Verona • Italy
Died July 1, 1515 • Rome • Italy
Movement / Style Renaissance art • Renaissance
Masaccio
Italian painter
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Giuliano da Sangallo
Italian architect
Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger
Italian architect
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
Filarete: Ospedale Maggiore
Filarete
Italian architect
Pietro Lombardo
Italian sculptor
Francesco Di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio
Italian artist
Giovanni Maria Falconetto
Italian painter and architect
Baccio d’Agnolo
Italian architect
Palazzo Strozzi
Il Cronaca
Italian architect
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Stadhuis, Antwerp
Cornelis II Floris
Flemish artist
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder
Italian architect
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Bramante, Donato
Donato Bramante
Italian architect
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect

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