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It's worth noting that the ancient Greeks were admired and emulated by those Italian Renaissance masters and many artists of later centuries maintained that Greek art was the height of artistic perfection and the standard of good taste. I don't think artistic greatness belongs exclusively to any race or ethnicity, but Italians have certainly made outsized contributions to the arts.
Michelangelo's paintings and sculptures awed me when I was only a child, my first memory of being stopped in my tracks by art. Leonardo's drawings are amazingly beautiful. Art gained greater realism in subsequent eras but at the cost of its poetic qualities.
During the twentieth century, when most of art had gone full retard with modernism, there were some great ethnically Italian artists in the USA, such as Frank Frazetta and John Buscema. Frazetta is arguably the best and most influential figurative artist of the last century. His work, in oils, watercolor, graphite, and pen/brush and ink, is admired not just by the public but by other artists.