Exploring Italian Renaissance art
The artists, their works, and the world that shaped them.
Venetian Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio (1472-1526) is another Italian Renaissance artist like Botticelli whose career fell into disfavor for many centuries until favor was restored in the 19th century. Although most…
As a young man Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was apprenticed to the studio of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Andrea del Verrocchio . Verrocchio has also been mentioned in connection with…
Italian Renaissance Mannerist artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) (pronounced Gew-seppy Arc-em-boldo) was a court painter and imperial party-planner to several sixteenth-century Italian emperors: Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolf II. Giuseppe Arcimboldo…
In this allegorical painting of Sacred and Profane Love, the Italian Renaissance artist Titian clearly separates himself stylistically from his recently deceased friend Giorgione. Sacred and Profane Love was painted to…
While Leonardo da Vinci surpassed his master Verrocchio in fine art painting as a young man, Verrocchio’s true genius was as a sculptor. In 1479 Verrocchio began work on his famous…
Highly regarded in his own time, Italian Renaissance painter Melozzo da Forli was from the town of Forli. His Renaissance painting style was influenced by Piero della Francesca, and due to…
This article was published in December, 2007 under the following title. Simonetta Vespucci: The Face That Launched A Thousand Prints The visage of a ravishing, young woman appears again and again…
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Da Vinci’s Vitruvian ManPen ink on loose leaf linen paper, ca.1492 Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man drawing was made around the year 1492. Leonardo drew a standing nude male figure with…
The rise of Italian Renaissance art can be traced generally from its beginnings toward the end of the thirteenth century with the work of Florentine artist Giotto di Bondone. Italian Renaissance…