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Who are the best-known painters of the High Renaissance?
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  Pietro Cavallini (1259 – c. 1330), painter and mosaicist. He was a member of the ancient Roman family of the Cerroni. Francesco Traini (fl. 1321 – 1345), painter and illuminator. "He was the most accomplished Pisan artist in the second quarter of the 14th century." Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 – 1469), was a leading painter of the Renaissance. He painted religious subjects on altarpieces and in "frescoes" in various towns in Italy. Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429/33 – 1498), was a painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver. Representative of the Florentine school of the late quattrocento. Niccolò Alunno (1430 – 1502), was a painter of the Umbrian School, who was also active in The Marches. Luca Signorelli (c. 1445 – 1523), was one of the great painters during the Renaissance. His masterpiece is the fresco cycle in Orvieto Cathedral. Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – 1510), creator of "The Birth of Venus" and "Primavera", was one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. Pinturicchio (1454 – 1513), original name Bernardino di Betto, was a painter of the Umbrian school known for his frescoes in the Collegiate Church at Spello. Filippino Lippi (c. 1457 – 1504), Renaissance painter of the Florentine school, who was the son of Filippo Lippi and the pupil of Botticelli. Fra Bartolomeo (1472 – 1517), painter who was "a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style." Pontormo (1494 – 1557), "was the leading painter in mid-16th-century Florence and one of the most original and extraordinary of Mannerist artists." Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574), was a painter and polymath from Arezzo. Author of "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects". Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 1643), was a painter, draughtsman and writer. He executed canvases and frescoes of religious and mythological subjects, and portraits. Giuseppe Cesari (1568 – 1640), was a celebrated historical painter, sometimes called il Cavaliere d'Arpino. Domenico Fetti (c. 1589 – 1623), was a painter. "His most characteristic works are of religious themes turned into scenes of everyday contemporary life." Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656), was a painter. She specialized in paintings of strong heroines, especially from the Bible. Pietro da Cortona (1596/7 – 1669), painter and architect, was one of the leading protagonists of the exuberant, high Baroque style. Giovanna Garzoni (1600 – 1670), was a painter, best known for her studies of flowers, plants, and animals. Francesco Furini (1603 – 1646), "was one of the leading Florentine painters of the first half of the 17th century." Filippo Baldinucci (1624 – 1697), was a painter, art historian, and biographer. He wrote "the first dictionary of art terminology." Carlo Maratta (1625 – 1713), was a leading painter of the Roman school under the influence of the counter-reformation. Pompeo Batoni (1708 – 1787), was "the preeminent painter of 18th century Rome and in the 1780s probably the most famous artist in Europe." Marcello Bacciarelli (1731 – 1818), court painter to King Stanisław August Poniatowski, was one of the most prolific artists in Warsaw during the late 18th century. Vincenzo Camuccini (1771 – 1844), was a painter. Among his best-known works are "Death of Caesar" and "Death of Virginia". Francesco Podesti (1800 – 1895), was a painter and Member of the Accademia di San Luca. Constantino Brumidi (1805 – 1880), painter whose lifework was the painting of portraits and frescoes for the Capitol in Washington, D.C.  Giovanni Fattori (1825 – 1908), perhaps the best of the Macchiaioli, was fond of battle scenes and landscapes populated by long-horned white cattle. Telemaco Signorini (1835 – 1901), painter and graphic artist. He was a leader of the Macchiaioli. Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920), was an important painter of the early 1900s. His favorite subject was the single figure. Alberto Burri (1915 – 1995), was a painter, collagist and designer, born at Città di Castello in Umbria.  
At the turn of the 16th century, especially in Northern Italy, artists began to use new techniques in the manipulation of light and darkness, such as the tone contrast evident in many of Titian's portraits and the development of sfumato and chiaroscuro by Leonardo da Vinci and Giorgione. The period also saw the first secular (non-religious) themes. Debate has ensued as to the secularism of the Renaissance emphasized by early 20th-century writers like Jacob Burkhardt due to the presence of these - actually few - mythological paintings. Botticelli was one of the main painters whose secular work comes down to us today, though he was deeply religious (a follower of Savonarola) and painted plenty of traditional religious paintings as well. The period known as the High Renaissance represents the culmination of the goals of the earlier period, namely the accurate representation of figures in space rendered with credible motion and in an appropriately decorous style. The most famous painters from this time period are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Their images are among the most widely known works of art in the world. Leonardo's The Last Supper, Raphael's The School of Athens and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are the textbook examples of this period. High Renaissance painting evolved into Mannerism (c. 1520-80), especially in Florence. Mannerist artists, who consciously rebelled against the principles of High Renaissance, tend to represent elongated figures in illogical spaces. Contemporaries criticized this period as seeming artificial. Modern scholarship has recognized the capacity of Mannerist art to convey strong (often religious) emotion where the High Renaissance failed to do so. Some of the main artists of this period are Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Parmigianino and Giulio Romano. 
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Important figures from the Renaissance. Renaissance painters. Leonardo da Vinci with Michelangelo and Raphael form the traditional trinity of great masters of the Renaissance. 
Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24 – February 5, 1579) was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy. 