We have so many Italian artists that are well-known all over the world for their art, so it would be amazing to create a new stamp set in memory of them. I have a few names that came to my mind while writing this down but I'm open to any kind of suggestion. – Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was one of the most important architects of the Italian Renaissance and an inventor of the perspective. All of his most well-known works are in Florence. An example may be the Florence's dome or the Pazzi Chapel but he also made a few interesting sketches of machines, very advanced for the time. – Donatello (1386-1466) was an Italian sculptor during the Renaissance. He worked in stone, bronze, wood, clay, and wax with several assistants. His reputation as a great artist was stated by Vasari and has always stood well, also because he managed to study with Filippo Brunelleschi – a famous architect that build the Florence's dome. He worked in Rome, Sienna and Padua as well as Florence, and worked for the Church, for Cosimo de' Medici, and for various city authorities. His work was inspired by ancient sculpture and he was the first sculptor of his time to celebrate the human body, an idea that had died out after Greek and Roman times. – Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His The Birth of Venus and Primavera are often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance. He was influenced by the revival of Greek and roman ideas in Florence at the time and he was one of the first western artists since classical times to depict non-religious subject matter. – Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian man who lived in the time of the Renaissance. He is famous for his paintings but he was also a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and a writer. His mission was getting to know everything about how things in nature worked and he kind of accomplished to his goal. Several sources suggest that he must have been homosexual and deeply in love with his man, dedicating him his works of art multiple times. – Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Michelangelo lived an extremely busy life, creating a great number of artworks – and some of them are among the most famous that have ever been made. They include two very famous marble statues, the Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica and David which once stood in a square in Florence but is now in the Accademia Gallery. His most famous paintings are huge frescos, the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and the Last Judgement. His most famous work of architecture is the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica. – Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an Italian artist. He was a painter ell-known during the Baroque time. He painted in a way called naturalism, which means that he painted things how they actually looked. He painted pictures of people so that the people looked real, and he made his pictures look exciting by painting a lot of very dark shadows and very bright lights – which is called chiaroscuro. He was known for his paint Medusa, Narcissus and for his multiple version of Bacchus and Boy Bitten by a Lizard.
