Italian Renaissance art
Michelangelo's artistic era
Italian Renaissance art refers to the painting, sculpture, and architecture produced in Italy from roughly the 14th through the 16th centuries, a period marked by renewed interest in classical antiquity and revolutionary developments in perspective, anatomy, and naturalistic representation.
The movement began in Florence and spread throughout the Italian peninsula, producing masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael whose works remain touchstones of Western art.
The museum's collection of Italian Renaissance art draws visitors from around the world.
- biblical scenesDepictions from scripture
- Madonna and ChildMary with baby Jesus
- linear perspectiveDepth through converging lines
- vanishing pointWhere parallels appear to meet
- golden ratioPhi, roughly 1.618
Leonardo da Vinci · Donatello · marble sculpture · humanism · mythological figures · chiaroscuro · Sandro Botticelli · Birth of Venus · human form · portraits · Titian · trompe-l'œil · classical columns · tempera · fresco · allegories · oil painting · Pietà
Italian Renaissance artByzantine art
Medieval eastern imperial aesthetic
Gothic art · contemporary art · abstract expressionism · prehistoric art · Minimalism
Italian Renaissance artDadaism
Absurdist artistic rebellion
outsider art · folk art · Cubism · naive art · abstract art
Italian Renaissance artIslamic art
Visual culture of Muslim civilizations
Chinese art · Japanese art · African art · Persian miniatures · Aztec art
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