Medieval Artists

Distinguished painters and sculptors of the European Middle Ages (roughly 400 to 1400 A.D.).

• Giovanni Pisano (born 1245, died 1314)

  Italian sculptor.

  • Founder of Italian Gothic sculpture; chief architect of the cathedrals at Pisa and Siena
• Pietro Cavallini

  Fourtheenth-century Italian painter.

  • Painted a fresco of the last judgment; also known for his mosaics
• Giotto di Bondone (died 1337)

  Italian painter.

  • Known for being able to draw perfect circles in a single stroke
• Andrey Rublyov

  Fifteenth-century Russian icon painter.

  • Painted ''''The Old Testament Trinity''''
• Ma Yuan (died 1225)

  Chinese landscape painter.

  • Known for paintings in which the area of main interest is in a corner, rather than the center