Places

Artists from Florence

169 painters in the Artifact World Gallery corpus were born in Florence, Italy (1240–1946), across 2,203 public-domain works. Their work spans Mannerism, Baroque, Early Renaissance and more. Ranked by fame — the most-recognized names first, each linking to their works and life dates.

Why Florence mattered

  1. 1400–1490

    Cradle of the Florentine Renaissance

    Renaissance Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters (1550)

  2. 1490–1530

    Leonardo and Michelangelo in the High Renaissance city

    High Renaissance Met Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Florence and Central Italy, 1400-1600

Representative works

Movements from Florence

Artists