Exploring Italian Renaissance art
The artists, their works, and the world that shaped them.
This article was published in January, 2007 under the following title: Renaissance Ideas: Classical Humanism, Embraced Then Rejected Feeding much of intellectual thought during the Early Renaissance was the concept of…
The Last Judgment by Michelangelo Buonarroti is a large fresco painting which was executed between 1535-1541. Pope Clement VII commissioned the Last Judgment by Michelangelo for his own private chapel (Sistine…
Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was an Italian Renaissance artist working in the Florentine court of famous art patrons, Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici. Verrocchio ran a successful studio in Florence, his…
An early work by Italian Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci, is a portrait of a young woman named Ginevra de’Benci. The sixteen year old daughter of a Florentine banker, da Vinci’s…
Giulio Romano (ca. 1499-1546) was an Italian Renaissance painter working in the Mannerist style of the sixteenth century. Giulio Romano’s birth name was Giulio di Pietro de’Gianuzzi or Giulio Pippi. As…
For the first time since antiquity in Western art, we see the use of full perspective in Masaccio’s Tribute Money. Masaccio’s Tribute Money is a fresco series of ca. 1427 in…
One of the most significant Italian Renaissance painters is the brilliant artist Masaccio, originally Tommaso Cassai. Masaccio was born near Florence on December 21, 1401. Masaccio died a young man in…
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), known simply as Michelangelo, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect of the High Renaissance period. Much of the information we know about the life…
<< Previous [1] 2 3 Next >> This article was published in October, 2006 under the following title: Offer Thanks to Nero Why, one might ask, would modern civilization owe a…