Artists' List: The Italian Proto-Renaissance

These things always start out simply enough. "How about a list of Western medieval artists?" (that was the question). No big deal, I thought (because Mrs. Misguided Optimist's internal censor, here, has never quite learned to avoid that booby-trap of a multiply-by-twenty + add-a-week "no big deal" thought). Silly me.

As it turns out, you've got your Western visual artists from 1100-1400, or thereabouts, but it's unwieldy to include the Italians who were, in any case, doing some very divergent work from the rest of Europe. And those Anonymous Masters are problematic in number, so they rightfully should be accorded their own list. Besides all of this, many dozens of artists were working in Eastern Asia during these years, and the Chinese and Japanese had absolutely no problem recording artists' names ... and, since I was already researching those years ... well, you can probably see where this led. (Straight down that familiar Road to Hell, is where! So many good intentions do.) I'll get it all sorted out one of these days, or so I soothingly tell myself. You've got three more "medieval" artists lists coming. Meanwhile, here is the (greatly) expanded list of visual artists working in Italy during the years ca. 1100-ca. 1400.

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