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The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento (from the Italian for 400, or from "mille quattrocento," 1400). Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages (most notably International Gothic) and the early Renaissance.

Contents 1 Development of Quattrocento styles 2 Historical context 3 Importance of Quattrocento 4 List of Italian Quattrocento artists 5 See also

Quattrocento art sheds the decorative mosaics (typically associated with Byzantine art along with the Christian and Gothic media of stained glass, frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, and sculpture). Quattrocento artists and sculptors incorporated the more classic forms developed by Roman and Greek sculptors.

After the decline of the Western Roman Empire in 476, economic disorder and disruption of trade spread across Europe, beginning the Early Middle Ages, which lasted roughly until the 11th century, when trade picked up, population began to expand and the papacy regained its authority.

The European continent slowly evolved from small, highly unstable fiefdoms into larger nation-states ruled by monarchies, thereby providing greater stability. In Italy, urban centers arose that were populated by merchant and trade classes able to defend themselves arose. Money replaced land as the medium of exchange, and increasing numbers of serfs became freedmen. The decline of feudalism paved the way for social, cultural, and economic changes. The Quattrocento is viewed as the transition from Medieval periods to age of Renaissance.

Since the Renassiance developed during the 1400s, Quattrocento lay at the forefront of what was to become a scientific, cultural, social, and economic revolution.

Since the Quattrocento overlaps with part of the Renaissance movement, it would be inaccurate to say that a particular artist was Quattrocento or Renaissance. Artists of the time probably would not have identified themselves as members of a movement.

• 1. Donatello
  2. Filippo Brunelleschi
  3. Lorenzo Ghiberti
  4. Masolino

• 1. Fra Angelico
  2. Paolo Uccello
  3. Il Sassetta
  4. Filippo Lippi
  5. Gentile da Fabriano
  6. Masaccio

• 1. Francesco Squarcione
  2. Piero della Francesca
  3. Domenico Veneziano
  4. Giovanni di Paolo
  5. Francesco di Giorgio
  6. Vecchietta
  7. Jacopo Bellini
  8. Domenico di Bartolo

• 1. Andrea del Castagno
  2. Benozzo Gozzoli
  3. Cosimo Tura
  4. Antonello da Messina
  5. Melozzo da Forlì
  6. Antonio Pollaiuolo
  7. Antoniazzo Romano
  8. Francesco del Cossa
  9. Andrea Mantegna
  10. Desiderio da Settignano
  11. Carlo Crivelli
  12. Vittore Crivelli
  13. Andrea del Verrocchio
  14. Justus of Ghent
  15. Pedro Berruguete

• 1. Leonardo Da Vinci
  2. Domenico Ghirlandaio
  3. Sandro Botticelli
  4. Pietro Perugino
  5. Antonio Rossellino
  6. Bertoldo di Giovanni
  7. Della Robbia
  8. Gentile Bellini
  9. Vittore Carpaccio
  10. Giovanni Bellini
  11. Ercole de' Roberti
  12. Luca Signorelli

Also see the list of 27 prominent 15th century painters made contemporaneously by Giovanni Santi, Raphael Sanzio's father as part of a poem for the Duke of Urbino.

• Trecento-the 14th century in Italian culture
• Cinquecento- the 16th century in Italian culture
• Seicento- the 17th century in Italian culture