Paolo Uccello, Obsessed With Perspective
The Florentine painter Paolo di Dono is better known as Paolo Uccello (1397-1475), and his masterworks are his history paintings of The Battle of San Romano. These dramatic tempera renderings by…
Category: Italian Renaissance art
The Annunciation to the Virgin, An Early fine Art Work by Leonardo da Vinci
This painting by Leonardo da Vinci of The Annunciation to the Virgin is an early fine art work executed by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci while he was still in…
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Begun in Florence and written from about his thirty-seventh year until his death, a period of about thirty years, the notebooks of High Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci consist of about…
Agnolo Bronzino, Court Painter to Cosimo I de’ Medici
Florentine Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) painted in the mannerist style as the primary court artist of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in the middle of the sixteenth century of…
Leonardo’s Bronze Horse Sculpture
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…
Parmigianino, Mannerist from Parma
The Italian artist known as Parmigianino was a painter and etcher who worked in the Mannerist style. Parmigianino’s real name was Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, and he was born in Parma. Early…
The Outrageous Life of Benvenuto Cellini
Few men have lived life as full as late Italian Renaissance mannerist artist, Benvenuto Cellini. Born in 1500, Benvenuto Cellini would be thrilled that we still talk about his life five…
Women As Edible Art
This article was published in December, 2006 under the following title. Women As Edible Art There is a real art to saying something without really saying it. In other words, you…
Andrea Mantegna – Leading the Way
Northern Early Italian Renaissance painter and engraver Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506) is best known for painting heroic figures depicted in sharp perspective through the use of dramatic foreshortening. Andrea Mantegna often placed…
Donatello’s David
An innovative work, Donatello‘s David, a bronze sculpture executed ca. 1425-1430, is the first large-scale, free-standing nude statue of the Renaissance. Donatello’s David statue with its sensual contrapposto stance eventually ended…
