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Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio is a historical theologian with an MA and PhD from the Catholic University of America, where he studied under Avery Cardinal Dulles. He has taught at Loyola College Maryland, the University of Dallas, and now the International Catholic University, offering graduate-level courses in theology, sacraments, liturgy, and...

Vitale da Bologna (c.1309–1360), also known as Vitale di Aymo de' Cavalli or Vitale degli Equi, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (c. 1498 -1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His dated works span the period from 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master in 1516. He was mainly a...

Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459-c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter who mostly worked in Venice. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Pietro da Cortona (1596/97-1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic pictorial style. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best-known works are his Adoration of the Magi from the Strozzi Altarpiece (1423), and the Flight into Egypt. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Antonello da Messina (c.1425–1430-1479), properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni, was an Italian painter active during the Italian Early Renaissance. (Source: wikipedia.org)