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Also Known As Luca da Cortona • Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli
Born 1445 or 1450 • Cortona • Italy
Died October 16, 1523 • Cortona • Italy
Movement / Style Renaissance art • Renaissance

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Venus of Urbino by Titian
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The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
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Italian painter
The Last Supper
Andrea del Castagno
Italian painter
Giotto: Lamentation
Giotto
Italian painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico
Italian painter
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
Italian painter
Masaccio
Italian painter
Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter
Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child
Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian painter
Correggio: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Correggio
Italian artist
Paolo Uccello
Italian painter
Perugino
Italian painter
Baptism of Christ
Masolino
Italian painter
Lippi, Filippino: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne Outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
Filippino Lippi
Italian painter
Madonna with Child and SS. Sebastian and Rocco, oil on wood by Bartolomeo Montagna, 1487; in the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy.
Bartolomeo Montagna
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
Franciabigio
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