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Italian Artists
Scholastic Bowl Most Prominent
| Description/Clue | Work | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| Depicted nudity for the first time since antiquity | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| Depicted a boy with a wide-brimmed hat standing atop a severed head | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| Potentially modeled after Hadrian's lover, Antinous | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| This artist's Bronze David was potentially modeled after this ancient Roman | Antinous | Donatello |
| The central figure stands on a head with a helmet depicting putti pulling a chariot in triumph | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| Depicts the mercenary/condottiero Erasmo de Narni on horseback | Gattamelata | Donatello |
| Based on a sculpture of Marcus Aurelius on Horseback | Gattamelata | Donatello |
| Depicted two putti in battle armor in a relief at its base | Gattamelata | Donatello |
| This figure was depicted in this artist's Gattamelata | Erasmo de Narni | Donatello |
| Depicted the title figure emaciated with clasped hands begging for a forgiveness of sins | The Penitent Magdalene | Donatello |
| Depicted the central woman in wood, contrary to typical depictions | The Penitent Magdalene | Donatello |
| Wooden crucifixion sculpted in Lorenzo Ghiberti's workshop | Santa Croce Crucifix | Donatello |
| Very realistic depiction of the prophet Habakkuk | Lo Zuccone | Donatello |
| Nicknamed "The Pumpkin" | Lo Zuccone | Donatello |
| The artist allegedly yelled "Speak, damn you, Speak!" at this sculpture | Lo Zuccone | Donatello |
| First use of this artist's stiacciato technique | Saint George and the Dragon | Donatello |
| Also called Saint George freeing the Princess | Saint George and the Dragon | Donatello |
| This artist created this shallow sculpting technique | Saint George and the Dragon | Donatello |
| Depicted a violin player in the middle arch of this bronze bas-relief | The Feast of Herod | Donatello |
| Depicted John the Baptist's head being presented to Salome in bronze | The Feast of Herod | Donatello |
| Title figure wears a sheperds hat with a laurel | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| A wing from the helmet of the severed head of a defeated man runs up the title man's leg | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| Depicted the title woman about to slice the head off the Assyrian general | Judith and Holofernes | Donatello |
| One figure* wears a medallion with a horse eading "SUPERBIA," representing pride | Judith and Holofernes (*Holofernes) | Donatello |
| Also known as Madonna Del Perdono | Our Lady of Forgiveness | Donatello |
| Also known as Our Lady of Forgiveness | Madonna Del Perdono | Donatello |
| Depicted a laughing figure with hands in the air wearing Mercury's sandals | Amor-Atys | Donatello |
| Created for the Baptistry font of the Siena Cathedral | The Feast of Herod | Donatello |
| This artist's bronze The Freast of Herod was sculpted for this place | The Siena Cathedral | Donatello |
| First depiction of clouds in Italian Art | Saint George and the Dragon | Donatello |
| One central figure* rests a limb on a cannonball | Gattamelata (*the horse) | Donatello |
| These TWO statues are located in niches in the Orsanmichele | Saint George AND Saint Mark | Donatello |
| This artist's sculptures of Saint George and Saint Mark are located here | The Orsanmichele | Donatello |
| Features a box pedestal to be viewed from 4 different perspectives | Judith and Holofernes | Donatello |
| Cast in 11 different parts to simplify guilding | Judith and Holofernes | Donatello |
| Located in the Piazza del Santo in Padua | Gattamelata | Donatello |
| This artist's Gattamelata was located in this place in this city (both required) | Piazza del Santo in Padua | Donatello |
| Told this bald sculpture to come to life | Lo Zuccone | Donatello |
| This statue's pedestal contains two fake doors depicting the gates of hell | Gattamelata | Donatello |
| This statue's elongated head led to it having the nickname "dimwit" | Lo Zuccone | Donatello |
| Contrasted with Luca della Robbia's same architectural feature for the Duomo in florence | [This artist's] Cantoria | Donatello |
| Created a lively depiction of putti on Cantoria contrasted with this artist's Cantoria for the same building (artist and building required) | Luca della Robbia | Duomo in Florence | Donatello |
| Used terracotta clay to depict the title man with red robes | Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano | Donatello |
| Influenced by Eastern Orthodox depictions of Mary of Egypt | The Penitent Magdalene | Donatello |
| Also known as Virgin and Child with Four Angels | Chellini Madonna | Donatello |
| Circular depiction of Mary with a halo and christ leaning against a railing | Chellini Madonna | Donatello |
| Circular bronze work that the artist gave to his doctor | Chellini Madonna | Donatello |
| Has a reversed hollow side to allow easy replicas to be created by pouring molten glass | Chellini Madonna | Donatello |
| Depicted three virtues below a golden depiction of the title figure | Tomb of Antipope John XXIII | Donatello |
| Included the Cossa coat of arms and a bed propped up by two lion legs | Tomb of Antipope John XXIII | Donatello |
| This artist worked on the Tomb of Antipope John XXIII with this mentor of his | Michelozzo | Donatello |
| A cannonball represents the world | Gattamelata | Donatello |
| This artist's Amor-Atys, St. George, and more, are held in this museum | Bargello National Museum | Donatello |
| Depicts a putti with a fauns tail and chaps | Amor-Atys | Donatello |
| Depicted this figure "Bearded" and "Beardless" | Bearded Prophet and Beardless Prophet | Donatello |
| Depicts a normal-proportion lower half and a Mannerist-inspired upper half | John the Evangelist | Donatello |
| Depicted reliefs of celebrating putti underneath a soon-to-be severed head | Judith and Holofernes | Donatello |
| Distorted before being placed outside the Orsanmichele due to it being viewed when on ground level | St. Mark | Donatello |
| Compared to a group of Fauvists | N/A | Donatello |
| Reads "The victor is whoever defends the fatherland" on its base | David (bronze) | Donatello |
| Vasari called this sculpture of a pleading woman "flawless" | The Penitent Magdalene | Donatello |
| This artist's Habakkuk, Jeremiah, the Bearded Prophet, and more were created for this place | Giotto's Campanile | Donatello |
| Guilded bronze statue commissioned by the Guelphs | St. Louis of Toulouse | Donatello |
| Commissioned by a shoemakers guild | Saint George | Donatello |
| Includes a depiction of Madonna and Child in a half-gold lunette | Tomb of Antipope John XXIII | Donatello |
| Rectangular stiacciato inspired by Masaccio's The Tribute Money | The Ascension with Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter | Donatello |
| His doctor was paid with this roundel of Mary surrounded by 2 angels | Chellini Madonna | Donatello |
| Gold leaf was once used to highlight this work, according to a 2008 laser analysis | David (Bronze) | Donatello |
| Rectangular work with putti on top held in the Cavalcanti Chapel | Annunciation | Donatello |
| "Pulpit for the Cathedral in Prato" | N/A | Donatello |
| More expressive than this sculptor's later St. George | Jeremiah | Donatello |
| Taught by Lorenzo Ghiberti | N/A | Donatello |
| Bust of San Rossore Reliquary | N/A | Donatello |
| This artist painted the entirety of the interior of this place also known as the Scrovegni Chapel | The Arena Chapel | Giotto di Bondone |
| This man was taught by Cimabue | N/A | Giotto di Bondone |
| These works were commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni | The Arena Chapel (frescoes) | Giotto di Bondone |
| This usurer commissioned this man to paint the Arena Chapel | Enrico Scrovegni | Giotto di Bondone |
| Crowds brandish clubs and torches and look at the title action | Kiss of Judas (Arrest of Christ) | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts Jesus embracing his betrayer | Kiss of Judas (Arrest of Christ) | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts Christ as a seraphim brandishing the title figure | Saint Francis Recieving his Stigmata | Giotto di Bondone |
| Painted a 28-part fresco of the title Assisi saint | Life of St. Frances | Giotto di Bondone |
| This artist painted his cycle the Life of St. Francis with his teacher, this man | Cimabue | Giotto di Bondone |
| Painted the central woman's throne with a pink-clad christ in perspective, shifting to naturalism | Ognissanti Madonna | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts Christ in a flame-projecting golden ring/oval | The Last Judgement | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts a fat obese blue devil in the bottom right | The Last Judgement | Giotto di Bondone |
| Father of Renaissance art | N/A | Giotto di Bondone |
| This man broke from this tradition of his teacher, Cimabue | Byzantine Style | Giotto di Bondone |
| Painted cobalt-blue with stars | Ceiling of the Arena Chapel | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts paintings of a bust of Jesus surrounded by his 4 apostles in circles against the blue background | Ceiling of the Arena Chapel | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts Christ with extended arms surrounded by a rainbow | The Last Judgement | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts a throned St. Peter similarly to this artist's Ognissanti Madonna | Stefaneschi Triptych | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicts the title patron gifting the central figure a replica of the work itself | Stefaneschi Triptych (Stefaneschi is giving St. Peter a miniature Stefaneschi Triptych) | Giotto di Bondone |
| One of the earliest examples of the Droste Effect* | Stefaneschi Triptych (*The work appears in a smaller form within itself) | Giotto di Bondone |
| Angels cry above a craggy rock with a single bare tree on it at the title scene | Lamentation of Christ | Giotto di Bondone |
| Created 14 personifications in grisaille of these 2 sets of 7 things on opposing walls | Virtues and Vices (Arena Chapel) | Giotto di Bondone |
| A demon flies towards a hanged woman | Despair (one of his 7 Vices in the Arena Chapel) | Giotto di Bondone |
| Demonstrates his difference in style to his teacher Cimabue's painting of the same name | Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints (Ognissanti Madonna) | Giotto di Bondone |
| First panel in this artist's Arena Chapel Cycle | The Expulsion of Joachim | Giotto di Bondone |
| The last panel in this artist's Arena Chapel Cycle | The Last Judgement | Giotto di Bondone |
| This artist's Arena Chapel Cycle is life-size replicated in this museum | Otsuka Museum (Japan) | Giotto di Bondone |
| The Otsuka Museum in Japan houses life-size replicas of this series of work | Arena Chapel Cycle | Giotto di Bondone |
| This man was thought to have decorated the walls and coronation altarpiece of this place, instead of his student, Taddeo Gaddi, who actually did | Baroncelli Chapel | Giotto di Bondone |
| This artist (artist) was thought to have designed the walls and coronation altarpiece of the Baroncelli Chapel, instead of this student (work) who actually did | Taddeo Gaddi | Giotto di Bondone |
| Pietro Cavallini, along with others, were argued to have completed this work (work) instead of this artist (artist) in a 2002 Bruno Zanardi book | St. Francis of Assisi (cycle) | Giotto di Bondone |
| Designed the belltower for the Florence Cathedral | [This artist]'s Campanile | Giotto di Bondone |
| Designed this polychrome building for a famous church, completed after his death | [This artist]'s Campanile | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicted a man who survived fire as per a trial by a sultan | St. Francis of Assisi (cycle) | Giotto di Bondone |
| Only a fragment of this fresco remains, housed in San Giovanni in Laterano | Boniface VIII Proclaiming the Jubilee | Giotto di Bondone |
| Response to being questioned why this artist had ordinary children | "I make pictures by day, and babies by night." | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicted St. Francis vanquishing evil from a city as part of a larger cycle | Exorcism from the Demons at Arezzo | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicted three Mary(s) being given a small model of a pink church | The Last Judgement | Giotto di Bondone |
| "Santa Trinita Maesta" | N/A | Cimabue |
| Painted a shield with a coat of arms "armed to the teeth" | N/A | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicted the Star of Bethleham as a Comet | Adoration of the Magi | Giotto di Bondone |
| The bust of this artist by another artist (work) showed that his most popular work at the time was the mosaic Navicella | Bendetto da Maiano (sculptor of bust) | Giotto di Bondone |
| A bust by Bendetto da Maiano shows that this was this artist's most popular work during his lifetime | Navicella | Giotto di Bondone |
| Depicted John the Evangelist reviving a pious woman* from Ephesus | Raising of Drusiana (*Drusiana is the woman) | Giotto di Bondone |
| The Raising of Drusiana by this artist was held in this chapel (work) | Peruzzi Chapel | Giotto di Bondone |
| Crucifix for the Santa Maria Novella | N/A | Giotto di Bondone |
| This man (work) praised the "ingenium" of this artist | Petrarch | Giotto di Bondone |
| Created several works for the Brancacci Chapel | N/A | Masaccio |
| This artist was given the title "pigpen" due to poor hygiene by this man (work) | Giorgio Vasari | Masaccio |
| Student of Masolino | N/A | Masaccio |
| This student (artist) worked with this teacher of his (work) to create frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel | Masolino | Masaccio |
| Depicted Christ attempting to pay a tax collector | The Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| Depicts Peter trying to pry a coin from a fish's mouth on Jesus's orders | The Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| First great quattrocento* painter | (*Quattrocento --> shift from Medieval art towards accuracy and humanism) | Masaccio |
| Depicts a skeleton in a coffin in the bottom of this work | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Depicts St. John, the Virgin, and two donors to the foreground of the central crucifixion | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Contains the inscription "I once was what you are and what I am you also will be" | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| This artist's The Holy Trinity includes this inscription on a coffin with a skeleton | "I was once what you are and you will also be what I am" | Masaccio |
| This artist's The Holy Trinity is held in this church | Santa Maria Novella | Masaccio |
| Two most famous works in the Santa Maria Novella by these 2 artists | The Holy Trinity & [Artist 2's] Crucifix | Masaccio and Giotto |
| Depicts a solemn god holding the crucified Jesus | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Depicts a pink-clad angel with a flaming sword driving away the two central figures | The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden | Masaccio |
| Depicts Mary on a throne with two kneeling angels in pink in the central panel | San Giovenale Triptych | Masaccio |
| Depicted a man with a wooden leg and crutch next to a dead man in orange | The Distribution of Alms and the Death of Ananias | Masaccio |
| Depicted a woman with a baby next to the apostles with a dead man at their feet | The Distribution of Alms and the Death of Ananias | Masaccio |
| Also called the Santa Maria Novella Trinity, based on where its held | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| This polyptych was created in the Julian Chapel of the Santa Maria del Carmine | Pisa Altarpiece | Masaccio |
| Forms the center of the Pisa Altarpiece | Madonna and Child with Angels | Masaccio |
| The Pisa Altarpiece was held in a chapel of this church | Santa Maria del Carmine | Masaccio |
| Collaborated with his brother Giovanni and Andrea di Giusto for this panel | Madonna and Child with Angels (centerpiece of Pisa Altarpiece) | Masaccio |
| First use of European letters instead of Gothic script | San Giovenale Tripytch | Masaccio |
| Potentially depicts the Shahada* in Mary's Halo | San Giovenale Tryptich (*= the Muslim declaration of faith) | Masaccio |
| Most famous work in the Cascia di Reggello | San Giovenale Triptych | Masaccio |
| This artist's San Giovenale Triptych is held in this building (work) | Cascia di Reggello | Masaccio |
| This artist collaborated with these two people for his "Madonna and Child with Angels," a panel of the Pisa Altarpiece | Giovanni (brother) and Andrea di Giusto | Masaccio |
| Depicts a gold, man-like infant Christ eating grapes | Madonna and Child with Angels | Masaccio |
| This brother (work) of this artist was bad and nicknamed "the splinter" | Giovanni | Masaccio |
| Depicts Saint Bartholomew and Biaggio in the left panel | Saint Giovenale Tryptich | Masaccio |
| Depicts the title man and Anthony Abbot on the right panel | Saint Giovenale Tryptich | Masaccio |
| Depicts Lake Genezaret on the side | The Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| Depicts a red fleur-de-lis on a trumpet that crosses the middle and leftmost arches of this work | Berlin Tondo | Masaccio |
| Separated into sections with Heralders, Nuns, and a woman giving birth, respectively | Berlin Tondo | Masaccio |
| Giorgio Vasari protected and hid this work after it was slated to be removed | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Duke Cosimo commissioned this artist to redecorate this work (both work and later artist required), but he preserved it | Giorgio Vasari protected the Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| This man commissioned Giorgio Vasari to redecore this other artist's (artist) The Holy Trinity | Duke Cosimo | Masaccio |
| Used linear perspective from a barrel vault | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Allegedly learned linear perspective from Filippo Brunelleschi | N/A | Masaccio |
| Reconstructed in 1952 after previously having been hidden | The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Depicts St. Peter reviving the title man and also sitting on a throne | The Raising of the Son of Theophilus and St. Peter Enthroned | Masaccio |
| This artist's "The Raising of the Son of Theophilus and St. Peter Enthroned" is the only one of his work to feature this figure | Himself | Masaccio |
| This artist was later ordered to cover the genatalia of central figures of this work with fig leaves | The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden | Masaccio |
| This man (work) ordered that genatalia be covered this artist's The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden | Cosmo III Medici | Masaccio |
| Depicts a saint in orange walking past homeless people, including a woman in blue lying down and a shirtless man crossing his arms | St. Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow | Masaccio |
| 3 Depictions of a tax collector collecting the title currency | The Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| Depicts a kneeling man being baptized in front of the next man in line, who seems to be freezing | The Baptism of the Neophytes | Masaccio |
| Includes the phrase "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" | The Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| Depicts the title saint upside down as 2 executioners nail his arms with Roman soldiers with red shields looking away in the background | The Crucifixion of St. Peter | Masaccio |
| Depicts Mary on the left on a gold chair with a group of the title figures to the right, featuring several aerial perspective indistinct hills | The Adoration of the Magi | Masaccio |
| Disputation with Simon Magus | N/A | Masaccio |
| Thorny leaves stick out and prod from an arch in the left of this work | The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden | Masaccio |
| Depicts Mary and an ugly blonde-haired christ sitting beneath the large title figure in red and black, along with 5 angels | Virgin and Child with Saint Anne | Masaccio |
| Depicts a man killing his sleeping parents on the left of three sections of this work | Stories of St. Julian and St. Nicholas | Masaccio |
| Depicts a man peering through a window at an old man and three poor sisters | Stories of St. Julian and St. Nicholas | Masaccio |
| Student of Fra Filippo Lippi | N/A | Sandro Botticelli |
| Painted himself along with his Medici patrons in this common scene | Adoration of the Magi | Sandro Botticelli |
| Corresponds to a Rainer Maria Rilke poem* of the same name | Saint Sebastian (*Sankt Sebastian) | Sandro Botticelli |
| Depicted the title saint in orange meditating in his room with various books, globes, and instruments | Saint Augustine in His Study | Sandro Botticelli |
| Also called the Trial of Moses | Youth of Moses | Sandro Botticelli |
| Worked lower than Michelangelo in this building | The Sistine Chapel | Sandro Botticelli |
| This artist's "Youth of Moses" was painted for this building | The Sistene Chapel | Sandro Botticelli |
| A wall and drawn back curtain separate the Angel Gabriel and The Virgin at a lecturn | The Annunciation | Sandro Botticelli |
| An unfinished bridge appears in the background as Gabriel kneels before the Virgin | Cestello Annunciation | Sandro Botticelli |
| Depicts the title scene unusually in vertical format, with Joseph holding a crown of thorns above the dead Jesus | Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Sandro Botticelli |
| Depicts Baby Jesus holding a pomegranate WHILE Mary is being crowned | Madonna of the Magnificat | Sandro Botticelli |
| Depicts Lucrezia Tornabuoni with infantile Jesus being crowned by 2 angels | Madonna of the Magnificat | Sandro Botticelli |
| Six angels with books surround Mary holding Jesus, who has the title fruit | Madonna of the Pomegranate | Sandro Botticelli |
| Mary writes on the page of a book with the Song of Zachariah | Madonna of the Magnificat | Sandro Botticelli |
| The Virgin Mary in dark blue stares down at Baby Jesus and a book | Madonna of the Book | Sandro Botticelli |
| The title figure rises from a shell | The Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli |
| Zephyrus and Chloris flies over cattails from the west | The Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli |
| Cupid flies over the Three Graces dancing | La Primavera | Sandro Botticelli |
| Chloris/Flora is abducted by a translucent Zephyrus | La Primavera | Sandro Botticelli |
| Satyrs play with a lance and one wears a helmet | Venus and Mars | Sandro Botticelli |
| The title woman watches as a conch shell is blown into her lover's ear | Venus and Mars | Sandro Botticelli |
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