Renaissance
Only in the Renaissance did individual artists in Western Europe acquire a personality known by his or her peer (listed by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists), such as those known by :
- Their true name or their father's name :
- Filippino Lippi after his father Fra Filippo Lippi
- A chosen pseudonym, possibly linked to his birthplace or his father's trade :
- Giuliano da Sangallo worked on the gate of saint Gall
- Antonio Pollaiuolo, after his father, a chicken farmer (pollo in Italian)
- Jacopo del Sellaio, after his father, a saddler (sellier)
- The Della Robbias (after the Tuscan word robbia, dyers' madder, and his father, the dyer Luca della Robbia)
- Masuccio Segondo, student of Masuccio Primo
- etc.
- A surname attributed to him :
- Il Cronaca, who never stopped talking about the ruins he had seen in Rome
- Daniele da Volterra, nicknamed Il Barghettone (the butcher) for having censored nudes in paintings by adding cloths or branches, at the request of pope Paul IV
- Luca della Robbia, for the madder colour he used as a ceramicist
- Masaccio, known as the idiot
- etc.
- A corporation, whose generic name is given to works made by all its members :
- the Campionesi Masters, sculptors and builders of religious buildings (Ugo da Campione, Bonino da Campione, Giovanni da Campione, Zenone de Campione, Matteo da Campione)
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