Exploring Italian Renaissance art
The artists, their works, and the world that shaped them.
The Venetian painting technique of artists like Titian and Giorgione during the Italian Renaissance was derived from the painting technique of Northern Renaissance artists. Strongly influencing Venetian artists were the oil…
Da Vinci’s Last Supper painting of 1498 is not a traditional true fresco (buon fresco) painted on wet plaster, rather it is painted on dry plaster with tempera in the fresco…
Born Filippo di Tommaso di Lippo, the Florentine painter known to history simply as Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469) was raised in a Carmelite friary. Although he took his vows in 1421,…
The dome of Florence Cathedral by Brunelleschi is an image that has become synonymous with the rich and vibrant lifestyle of Italian Renaissance culture. Both architect and artist Filippo, Filippo Brunelleschi…
Giorgione’s painting reflects the style of the Venetian Renaissance rather than the Italian High Renaissance, separate movements which were concurrent within Italy during the sixteenth century, but with considerable differences. There…
Italian Renaissance painter, Leonardo da Vinci, explored the theme of Madonna and Child painting several times throughout his career. Like the earlier Burlington House Cartoon of ca. 1500, this Madonna and…
Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo in 1511. At the age of 16, Cardinal Silvio Passerini sent him to study art in Florence where he became acquainted with famous artists like…
The Mona Lisa portrait by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was probably begun in 1503 and completed in 1506. She is identified by Giorgio Vasari, art historian and contemporary of…
Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone was born in 1267 in Florence. Giotto di Bondone is lauded as the Trecento artist responsible for the renewal of Western figurative arts with the…
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