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Giotto di Bondone was the great innovator of the proto renaissance

Giotto, the first great artist of the renaissance, his paintings display a three dimensional quality which breaks with the flat representations of the past.

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Andrea del Verrocchio, multitalented painter and sculptor

Andrea del Verrocchio, this gifted and multitalented Renaissance artist's pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli.

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Filippino Lippi Renaissance artist 1457/8-1504

Filippino Lippi was the illegitimate son of Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti. Working in Florence he was a gifted and influential Italian painter.

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Fra Filippo Lippi and his works in Prato Cathedral

Fra Filippo Lippi, this famous Florentine painter was placed in a Carmelite monastery in Florence on the death of his parents.

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Luca Signorelli Italian painter famous for his massive cathedral works

Luca Signorelli, the Renaissance artist and his work in the Orvieto Cathedral. He is famous for his renditions of the human form and his foreshortening skills.

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The Lady with an Ermine was painted in 1489/90 by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo’s portrait of Cecilia Gallerani known as The Lady with an Ermine this oil on wood panel is a magnificently realised study of feminine beauty.

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Michelangelo's Doni Tondo a compositional masterpiece.

The Doni Tondo, or The Holy Family, is Michelangelo's only complete surviving panel painting. In contrast to his frescoes the Tondo was painted in egg tempera.

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Giorgione of the Venetian High Renaissance master of light and colour.

Giorgione, High Renaissance the artist from Venice who painted the Sleeping Venus and the Tempest. He was apprenticed to the painter Giovanni Bellini.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti, the life and art of the renaissance master

Michelangelo painter, poet and architect He was also regarded as the greatest sculptor of the sixteenth century. The creator of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

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