Italian painting
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Italian painting refers to the artistic tradition of painting in Italy, spanning from ancient Roman frescoes through the Renaissance masters to modern movements.
The term typically evokes the Renaissance period—Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael—when Italian painters dominated European art: She studied Italian painting in Florence.
The tradition is foundational to Western art history.
- religious artArtwork expressing faith
- holy familySpiritually consecrated domestic unit
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- portraitureArt of depicting people
Leonardo da Vinci · Last Supper · gold leaf · Mannerism · Baroque · chiaroscuro · trompe-l'œil · tempera · mythology · Sandro Botticelli · Birth of Venus · old masters · still life · Neoclassicism · allegory · Romanticism · landscapes · art restoration
- Italian StudiesDante, Machiavelli, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo
Italian paintingChinese painting
East Asian ink art
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