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1. His most famous works were painted in S. Marco, Florence...a Sylvestrine monastery. Ruskin called him 'an inspired saint', and he was finally beatified in 1982, and made Patron Saint of Artists in 1984, nearly 530 years after his death! Who was he?
2. His real name was Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco but he went by what name on account of his father being a tailor?
3. This early German master was active in Basel, Switzerland during the first half of the 15th century as a landscape painter. His masterpiece, 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', shows his remarkable ability to depict reflection and refraction in the lake water on which Christ walks. Who was this very influential master of landscape painting?
4. One of my favorite early Renaissance artists, he was the great French master of the 15th century. He became the Royal Painter for King Louis XI in 1475 after having served under the patron named Chavalier. He painted a wonderful 'Virgin and Child' that can now be seen at the Koninklijk Museum in Antwerp. Name him!
5. A contemporary of Donatello, this early Florentine sculptor helped shepherd European art during the transition from Late Gothic to the Early Renaissance. His most exceptional work, the 'Quattro Santi Coronati', can be found in one of the niches on the outside of Or San Michele in Florence. Which sculptor are we discussing here?
6. Speaking of Donatello, he is credited with producing the first free-standing nude of the Renaissance. This bronze sculpture depicted what well-known Biblical figure?
7. Filippo Brunelleschi is known to us today for his wonderful architectural work and for his treatise on scientific perspective. However, he was originally trained not in architecture but in what art form?
8. Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone was without a doubt one of the key painters of the early Renaissance, the first to apply Brunelleschi's analysis of perspective to painting. He was in fact so obsessed with his painting that he seems to have forgotten the proper form of dress, giving him a slovenly appearance according to Vasari's notes. What was the nickname for this fellow which we can translate as 'Sloppy Tom'?
9. Active in the late 13th-early 14th centuries in Siena, this shadowy figure is considered by many to be the founder of the Sienese school of painting. His works include the 'Maesta', to be found in Siena, and the 'Rucellai Madonna', which now resides in the Uffizi in Florence. Name that painter!
10. Another set of Sienese painters, this time brothers who were active until their deaths in 1348. Their last name was Lorenzetti, but what were their first names?
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