Renaissance paintings
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Renaissance paintings are artworks created during the European Renaissance, roughly the 14th through 17th centuries, characterized by renewed interest in classical forms, realistic perspective, and humanist themes.
The term typically evokes Italian masters—Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael—though the Renaissance spread throughout Europe.
The museum's collection of Renaissance paintings draws thousands of visitors annually.
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- vanishing pointWhere parallels appear to meet
- Leonardo da VinciItalian artist-scientist-engineer
- Last SupperFarewell Passover gathering
- religious iconographySpiritual images and symbols
holy family · canvas · tempera · patron saints · chiaroscuro · portraiture · Caravaggio · glazing · wood panels · classical antiquity · humanism · symbolism · foreshortening · Protestant Reformation · Sandro Botticelli · fresco · scientific discoveries · gold leaf
- antiquesantiques, antique furniture, antique, antique coins, Greek vases
- Italian ArtFuturism, Mannerism, Roman mosaics, Roman art, Italian masters
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- Vatican treasuresSistine Chapel, School of Athens, Creation of Adam, Last Judgment, Vatican Museums
Renaissance paintingsByzantine icons
Eastern Orthodox sacred artwork
abstract expressionism · medieval art · modern art · contemporary art · postmodern art
Renaissance paintingsabstract expressionism
Nonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
naive art · conceptual art · religious icons · folk art · outsider art
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