Italian Renaissance Art History
Read for my class: Leonardo, Raphael, and their Contemporaries A very good survey. It s difficult to find a good survey, but my professor…
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Last Friday at the National Gallery I was involved in a discussion about the lily s importance in Renaissance Art.She spent a year…
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CREDITS: Genna Panzarella re-creating a section of Michelangelo s Sistine Chapel ceiling in 2003; photo, Dean Lipoff Held annually…
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By 1600, there were over fifty miraculous images in Florence: weeping Madonnas, bleeding Christs, paintings and sculptures—often veiled…
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has opened the first monographic exhibition in the United States of the works of Carlo…
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Long before Leonardo da Vinci worked on his in Milan Florence, the Captial of the Cenacolo Our new adventure features seven locations…
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If you’re a painter, you can’t do much better for luscious landscape settings than Tuscany. (One recent program participant declared…
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“Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse” was Duff McKagan’s mantra in the late 80s and early 90s, when he was the hard-partying…
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Titian, his birth name was Tiziano Vecelli, was born between 1485-1490 in Cadore in the southern Alps, and was rumored to be over ninety…
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The Premier Artists of the Italian High Renaissance The Italian High Renaissance is the defining movement in art history. No other…
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The High Renaissance in Italy is generally described as the period from around 1500, although like the starting date of the Renaissance…
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This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the…
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Greater Realism in Painting In keeping with the importance of Humanism, Early Renaissance painting strove to achieve greater realism…
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