These famous artists of the middle ages helped make amazing pieces in realism that ended near the Renaissance art style. Below are their assistances:
- Lorenzo Ghiberti was famous as a medieval sculptor and painter. He was a founder of the Renaissance, an knowledgeable movement that started in the Italian city of Florence in the early 15th century
- Donatello was greatly occupied with statuary work. Statuary was greatly respected by the Romans who produced statues memorializing famous people or events
- Giotto di Bondone was famous as an architect, sculptor, and painter of the early Renaissance. He broke away from the Byzantine art style and established new ideals of naturalism and created a sense of pictorial space
- Leon Battista Alberti developed architectural principals were founded on the importance of painting as a base for architecture
- Cimabue was the last great painter who functioned in the Byzantine tradition but he was also a founder of the movement towards greater realism which climaxed in the Renaissance
- Filippo Brunelleschi was and Artist, Sculptor and Architect. He developed a technique founding the basis of Renaissance architecture and also developed the use of perspective, which transformed painting in the Middle Ages, allowing for naturalistic styles as opposed to the stylized figures painted by Medieval artists
- Fra Angelico was famous as a Florentine artist of the Middle Ages who specified in pietistic painting ( religious art)
The known names of Middle Ages women artists are on the following list who were manuscript illuminators:
- Claricia - German female artist and nun who illuminated manuscripts in the 12th century
- Herrad of Landsberg (1125-1195) Abbess of Hohenburg
- Ende - 11th century nun and illuminator
- Guda or Guta - German 12th century nun and illuminator
- Diemud or Diemudis (1057-1130) - 12th century Bavarian nun and illuminator
- Abbess Hitda
- Hldegard of Bingen (1098-1179)