It is important to note that Italy has had many fine painters since the beginning of time. One Cesare Bassano is on record as the first Italian painter.
Giotto di Bondone
the first renaissonce painter was not Italian it was Robert campin and he was from the Netherlands also Italy was not a united country then
I think you mean Giotto di Bondone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_ChiricoThis is probably the guy you're looking for. A fantastic surrealist artist, of Italian stock, born in Greece.
Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926, American Painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1475 1564, Italian painter, sculptor, poet and architect Marie Bracquemond, 1841-1916, French Impressionist painter Melchior Broederlam, 1381-1409, from the Netherlands, International Gothic style painter Matthias Grunewald, 1475-1528, German, late Gothic style painter
The correct answer is D: Masaccio,(1401-1428),Massaccio is considered by many to be the first important artist of the Italian Renaissance. Above all else he is thought of the first naturalistic artist.
- He was Italian - He was first a painter - He created the Mona Lisa - He then became a inventor - He was born April 15th 1452 and died on May 2 1519
Giotto di Bondone, better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
He was a failed painter
Could it be that you are doing a crossword puzzle? Could it be that the 51 down in this puzzle says 'Pieta'. In that case the answer is Michelangelo.
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Dali.