| GIORGIONE | Disputed origin eg about old painter of the High Renaissance style born around 1477 (9) |
| ANDREADEL | Florentine painter of the High Renaissance whose notable works include The Nativity of the Virgin (1514) |
| SARTO | Florentine painter of the High Renaissance whose notable works include The Nativity of the Virgin (1514) |
| AGED | Old painter of dancers nearly all rejected (4) |
| NAUMGABO | Russian sculptor noted for his Constructivist style born in 1890 (4,4) |
| RAPHAEL | Italian artist, considered to be one of the greatest painters of the High Renaissance (7) |
| ALKALOID | Any of a class of complex organic bases of vegetable origin, e.g. morphine, strychnine, nicotine (8) |
| MASTERS | Great old painters of Augusta's golf event (7) |
| ROOT | Origin; eg, carrot |
| MICHELANGELO | Italian artist of the High Renaissance who is the renowned painter of the fresco The Last Judgement |
| OPERATION | Old painter got around to produce work in a theatre (9) |
| MELBOURNE | Mule born around five PM (9) |
| PRIMITIVE | Old painter has to prepare canvas, covering it, I see |
| CANALETTO | Tin with beer given to dry old painter |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo --- ---, Italian painter, sculptor and engineer of the High Renaissance (2,5) |
| AESOP | 'The Phrygian has spoken better than all,' the King of Lydia is supposed to have remarked of this Greek slave born around 620BC who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Boy Who |
| LEONARDO | Italian polymath, painter, engineer, scientist, sculptor and architect, 1452-1519, a leading figure in the High Renaissance (8,2,5) |
| JOHNKNOX | Theologian born around 1514 who was the foremost leader of the Scottish reformation (4,4) |
| CAXTON | William, establisher of the first printing press in England in 1477 (6) |
| BYRON | Poet possibly born around the end of the century |
