Italian art
Florentine gallery holdings
Italian art encompasses the visual arts produced in Italy or by Italian artists, spanning from ancient Roman works through Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary pieces.
The term most often evokes the Renaissance period—Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael—when Italian city-states dominated European artistic development.
The museum's Italian art collection features several Caravaggios.
Beyond painting and sculpture, Italian art includes architecture, mosaics, and decorative arts that have shaped Western aesthetics for centuries.
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- oil on canvasPaint type on woven surface
Sandro Botticelli · Neoclassicism · grand tour · Leonardo da Vinci · the Last Supper · mosaic · gold leaf · Futurism · portraiture · ceramics · Donatello · marble sculpture · Mannerism · Tintoretto · painting · Titian · sculpture · Giotto
- world art
- Italian StudiesDante, Machiavelli, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo
- European cultureFrench cuisine, opera, ballet, Renaissance, Greek mythology
- ItalyRome, Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples
- art museumpaintings, old masters, exhibition, drawings, permanent collection
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
Italian artGerman art
Creative works from Deutschland
French art · French Impressionism · Russian art · Japanese art · American art
Italian artminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
conceptual art · anti-art · Dadaism · Northern Renaissance · Gothic art
Italian arttribal art
Indigenous cultural artifacts
Aboriginal art · naive art · expressionism · primitivism · medieval art