Who's Who: Artists and Architects

Following is a chart of major artists and architects involved in creating or decorating sacred sites, including a basic biography and a list of where his or her work can be seen.

Portrait	Name	Dates	Overview	Related Sacred Sites
	Angelico, Fra	1395–1455	Florentine artist.	Convent of San Marco, Florence; Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto; Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanno val d'Arno
	Bellini, Giovanni	1430-1516	Venetian artist renowned for his painting of light and soft colors as well as well as a new generation of Madonnas.	I Frari and San Zaccaria in Venice.
	Botticelli, Sandro	1444-1510	Outstanding Renaissance painter active in Florence. Pupil of Lippi, patronized by Lorenzo de' Medici. He is buried in Ognissanti, parish church of the Vespucci family.
	Brunelleschi, Filippo	1377-1446	Florentine architect, one of the first to be named in association with his work.	Duomo, San Lorenzo, Santa Spirito, and the Pazzi Chapel at Santa Croce, all in Florence.
	Chagall, Marc	1887-1985	Russian-born Jewish artist who later settled in France, known for his bright colors and surrealistic images. Created many stained-glass windows for religious and secular buildings.	Stained-glass windows in: Metz Cathedral; Reims Cathedral; Fraumünster in Zurich; St. Stephen Church in Mainz; All Saints Church in Tudelay (England); and many others.
	del Castagno, Andrea	c1421—1457	Florentine painter supported by the Medicis.	Convent of Sant'Apollonia, Florence. Equestrian fresco of Nicolò da Tolentino in the Florence Duomo. Famous Men and Women cycle of nine portraits in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
	della Francesca, Piero	c.1416-1492	Especially known for his beautiful Madonnas.	Duke Federico of Urbino portrait in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; fresco cycle in the Franciscan church in Arezzo; Sansepolcro Museo Civico; Pregnant Madonna in Monterchi near Sansepolcro; the Madonna di Senigallia and the Flagellation in the Urbino Palazzo.
	Ghiberti, Lorenzo	1378-1455	Contemporary and competitor of Brunelleschi, known best for his bronze doors to the Baptistery in Florence.	North and east doors of Baptistery, Florence.
	Greco, El	1541-1614	Born in Crete ane named Domenikos Theotocopoulos, he was known in Spain as "the Greek."
	Lippi, Fra Filippo	1406-1469
	Lucas Cranach the Elder	1472-1553
	Masaccio, Tommaso	1400-1428	Highly talented Florentine artist, known for the emotional power of his paintings.	Brancacci Chapel frescos in Santa Carmine, Florence; "The Trinity" in Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
	Michelangelo Buonarroti	1475-1564	Florentine ultimate "Renaissance man" - painter, sculptor, architect and poet.	Sistine Chapel, Pieta, and dome at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City; David in Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence; Pieta in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence; San Lorenzo, Florence.
	Rubens, Peter Paul	1577-1640
	Signorelli, Luca	c1450-1523	Signorelli was a technical master, particularly with regard to male anatomy and the tricks of foreshortening. He is thought to have been taught by Piero della Francesca and to have influenced both Raphael and Michelangelo.	Throughout Umbria and Tuscany, most notably at the Orvieto Cathedral including a self-portrait and the Great Cloister at Monte Oliveto Maggiore, south of Siena.
	Titian	1485-1576
	Velasquez, Diego	1599-1660