WAmerigo Bartoli Natinguerra was an Italian painter, caricaturist, and writer. He mainly painted vedute and landscapes, using both oil and water color in subdued earthy tones. He also painted still lifes and portraits.
WAdriano Cecioni was an Italian artist, caricaturist, and critic associated with the Macchiaioli group.
WBaron Melchiorre De Filippis Delfico was an Italian artist, composer, singer, conductor, writer, librettist and a master of the Neapolitan art of caricature who inspired, among others, Carlo Pellegrini.
WAdriana Bisi Fabbri (1881–1918) was an Italian painter.
WPier Leone Ghezzi was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome.
WLeonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on science and invention; these involve a variety of subjects including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo's genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist idea, and his collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary Michelangelo.
WCarlo Pellegrini, who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape, was an artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine, a leading journal of London society. He was born in Capua, then in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. His father came from an ancient land-owning family, while his mother was allegedly descended from the Medici. His work for the magazine made his reputation and he became its most influential artist.
WLiborio Prosperi ('Lib') a.k.a. Liberio Prosperi, was an Italian-born artist who belonged to a group of international artists producing caricatures for the British Vanity Fair magazine. He contributed 55 caricatures between 1885 and 1903, signed 'Lib', and concentrating mainly on the racing set.
WAngiolo Tricca was an Italian caricaturist and painter of historical themes.
WLuigi Bertelli, best known as Vamba, was an Italian author, illustrator and journalist.