Here we have an annotated alphabetical listing of visual artists from the Proto-Renaissance period (ca. 1100-ca. 1400) in Italy. As "Proto-" segued into "Early Renaissance," and because no one was considerate enough of us, today, to stop working at 1400 on the dot, you can expect to see a fair amount of overlapping with the 15th-century Italian Artists list. Hyperlinked names indicate a path to an individual artist's profile.
This page covers artists whose surnames began with the letters A through F.
Artists A-F | G-O | P-Z
A
Altichiero (da Zevio)
Ambrogio, Giovanni d'
- Florentine sculptor and architect;
Master of Cathedral Works, Florence Cathedral
Active 1382-1418
Angelo, Nicolaus de
- Roman architect and sculptor
Active second half of the 12th century
Anselmus
- Sculptor
Active, in Milan, 1171
Antelami, Benedetto
- Sculptor and architect
Active, mainly in Parma, 1178-1233
Arnolfo (di Cambio)
- Florentine sculptor and architect
Active 1265; d. 1302
B
Balduccio, Giovanni di [Giovanni Balducci]
- Sienese sculptor, active in Pisa and Milan
Active 1317/18-49
Banco, Maso di
- Florentine painter
Active 1335-50
Barisanus of Trani
- Sculptor and bronze-caster
Active 1179
Bartolo, Taddeo di
- Sienese painter
b. ?1362-3; d. after August 28, 1422
Benivieni, Lippo di
- Florentine painter
Active 1296-1320
Berlinghieri, Berlinghiero
- Painter active in Lucca
Active 1228; d. before 1236
Berlinghieri, Bonaventura
- Painter, son of Berlinghiero
Active 1228-74
Besozzo, Michelino (de' Molinari)
- Milanese painter and illuminator
Active 1388; d. after 1450
Bicci, Lorenzo di
- Florentine painter associated with Florence Cathedral
b. ca. 1350; d. ?1427
Biduino [Biduinus]
- Sculptor
Active ca. 1173-94
Binellus
- Umbrian sculptor and architect
Active 1195-1201
Biondo, Giovanni del
- Florentine painter
Active 1356-99
Bologna, Niccolò di Giacomo da
- Bolognese illuminator
Active 1349-1403
Bologna, Vitale da [Vidalino di Amyo de Equis]
- Bolognese painter
b. before 1309; d. between 1359 and 1361
Bonanus of Pisa
- Sculptor, active in Sicily and, of course, Pisa
Active ca. 1179-86
Bonaguida, Pacino di
- Florentine painter and illuminator
Active from 1302 to pre-1340
Bonaventura, Segna di
- Sienese painter
Active by 1298; d. before 1332
Bonomo, Jacobello di
- Venetian painter
Active ca. 1370-90
Brioloto
- Veronese sculptor
Active 1189-1226
Buonaccorso, Niccolò di
- Sienese painter
Active 1356; buried May 17, 1388
Buschetto [Boschetto; Busketus]
- Architect responsible for the Pisa Cathedral
Active ca. 1064-1110
C
Camaino, Tino di
- Itinerant sculptor for powerful patrons
b. ca. 1280; d. 1337
Campionesi, The (Collective)
- Sculptors and architects
Active in northern Italy, mid-12th to late 14th century
Casentino, Jacopo del
- Florentine painter
Active ca. 1315-1349
Cavallini, Pietro
- Roman painter and mosaicist
b. ca. 1240; d. after ca. 1330
Cimabue [Cenni (Benciviene) di Pepo]
- Painter and mosaicist
b. ca. 1240; d. before July 14, 1302
Cione, Nardo di
Como, Giovanni di Benedetto da
- Lombardic illuminator of the Hours of Blanche of Savoy
Active ca. 1378
Como, Giroldo (di Jacopo) da [Giroldo da Lugano]
- Sculptor associated with the cathedral at Massa Marittima
Active 1267-74
Como, Guido [di Bonagiunta Bigarelli] da
- Sculptor associated with the Pisa and Pistoia Cathedrals
Active ca. 1238; d. 1257
Cosmati, The (Collective)
- Roman marble-workers
Active 12th and 13th centuries
Crocefissi, Simone dei
- Bolognese painter
b. ca. 1330; d. 1399
D
Daddi, Bernardo
Dalmasio, Lippo di [Lippo delle Madonne]
- Bolognese painter known for his Madonnas
d. ca. 1410
Diotisalvi
- Architect associated with the Pisa Baptistery
Active 1152
d'Ognabene, Andrea di Jacopo
- Goldsmith active in Lucca
Active 1286-ca. 1317
Drudus de Trivio
- Roman marble-worker and sculptor
Active ca. 1230-40
Duccio (di Buoninsegna)
- Sienese painter
Active 1278; d. before August 3, 1319
F
Filippuccio, Memmo di
- Sienese painter and illuminator
Active 1288-1324
Fiorentino, Stefano
- Florentine painter
Active ca. 1347
Foggia, Nicola [Niccolò] di Bartolomeo da
- Sculptor associated with Ravello Cathedral
Active ca. 1230-72
Forli, Giustino del fu Gherardino da
- Venetian scribe and illuminator
Active 1362 to sometime after 1384
