Welcome to Cavallini to Veronese
Cavallini to Veronese is a free online guide to the major painters of the Italian Renaissance.
Created and authored by David Savage, it brings together information on eighty artists and more than five thousand works, spanning from the late thirteenth century to the late sixteenth century. It is the first time that such a range of information has been brought together in a single source.
The site is intended as an accessible and comprehensive reference for visitors to Italy, scholars, and anyone with an interest in the art of the Italian Renaissance.
Each entry contains a succinct biography, followed by a description of works by (or attributed to) the artist in public collections and churches.
The website was launched in October 2012 and substantially redesigned in 2025. It is non-profit-making and unsupported by advertising.
Explore by Period
Explore the painters chronologically – from Pietro Cavallini in the late thirteenth century to Paolo Veronese at the end of the sixteenth century.
How to Use This Site
- Search for a painter using the search box at the top of the site.
- Browse by period, using the options above.
- Explore by region, discovering artists of the Florentine, Venetian, Central Italian, and North Italian schools.
- View the full index of artists, arranged alphabetically, simply by clicking Artists at the top of the page.
Works in major galleries are mentioned first, other public collections next, and churches last.
Explore by Regional School
Renaissance Italy was divided politically into independent city states and, although artists frequently travelled in search of commissions and patrons, there were distinctive regional artistic traditions. Discover the four great schools of Italian art:
Ten Great Masters
The following painters stand as milestones in the story of Italian art.
Their work shaped the language of painting for centuries to come.
Giotto
‘…painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature’.
Vasari, Lives (1568).
Simone Martini
‘Simone is the most loveable of all Italian artists before the Renaissance’.
Bernard Berenson, Central Italian Painters (1907).
Masaccio
‘To Masaccio especially we are indebted for the good style of modern painting’.
Vasari, Lives (1568).
Piero della Francesca
‘The best picture in the world’.
Aldous Huxley, Along the Road (1925).
Giovanni Bellini
‘The happy serenity of Bellini’s art, its tenderness and humanity …’.
Roger Fry, Giovanni Bellini (1899).
Botticelli
‘…the greatest master of linear design that Europe has ever had’.
Bernard Berenson, Florentine Painters (1896)
Leonardo da Vinci
‘His spirit was never at rest, his mind was ever devising new things’.
Antonio Billi, Libro (1516-30).
Michelangelo
‘The man whose work transcends and eclipses that of every other artist […] is the inspired Michelangelo Buonarroti’.
Vasari, Lives (1568).
Raphael
‘…it is from his having taken so many models, that he became himself a model for all succeeding painters’.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses (1774).
Titian
‘There is no greater name in Italian art – therefore no greater in art – than that of Titian’.
Claude Phillips, The Earlier Work of Titian (1897).