Exploring Italian Renaissance art
The artists, their works, and the world that shaped them.
Discover the paintings, sculpture, and ideas of the Renaissance through the lives of its artists and the world around them.
Artists, patrons, and the people they painted. Explore the stories behind some of the Renaissance’s most familiar works.
Browse the articlesThe Proto-Renaissance or Trecento (from Italian “mille trecento,” 1300) refers to Italian culture of the 14th century. It was in the Proto-Renaissance that the ornamental, very detailed, International Gothic style of…
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Italian Renaissance painter, Pietro Perugino (1446-1524), also known as Pietro Vannucci, was born in Peugia, Umbria. Like so many other artists of the time, Perugino gravitated to Florence probably in the…
The Roman emperor Nero collected classical Greek sculpture from all over the empire to decorate his Domus Aurea, or Golden House, a pleasure palace. One such classical Greek sculpture of the…
In clearing away debris to build the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, excavators discovered a 2300-year-old marble bust sculpture of famous Greek philosopher Aristotle. This marble bust sculpture of Aristotle of…
<< Previous 1 [2] 3 Next >> Angered by his father at the age of sixteen Cellini left Florence for Rome, stopping by way of Lucca and Pisa. In Pisa he…
<< Previous [1] 2 3 Next >> This article was published in October, 2006 under the following title. The Outrageous Life of Benvenuto Cellini in His Own Words Few men have…
Famous Italian Renaissance art patron Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-1492) ruled Florence with his brother Giuliano de’ Medici from 1469-78 when Giuliano was assassinated. Lorenzo de’ Medici ruled alone until his own…
Italian Renaissance art patron Lorenzo de’ Medici married a highborn Roman noblewoman of the Orsini family, and his daughter married Pope Innocent VIII’s son who was conceived prior to the pope…
Following is a timeline of important dates in the life of Leonardo da Vinci. As some dates are subject to dispute, those reflected here in this Leonardo da Vinci timeline may…