Italian painters

Renaissance. The Renaissance was a rebirth of many cultural aspects that were thought to have been lost to the ever changing world. The Renaissance originated in Europe during the 14th century in Italy. This new age brought about many great changes in Italian intellectual, artistic, and even cultural life. Even though the Renaissance began in the 14th century, it wasn’t given an official title until the 16th century. A man named Giorgio Vasari was the first to give the Renaissance its name.…

and architecture between Northern Europe and Italy were both similar and different in many ways. From the detailed work of everyday life of the North to the Neoplatonic allegories of Italian work, the Renaissance was a time of transition and strength. The most dominant similarity between Northern European and Italian Renaissance artwork lies behind the meaning of humanism. During the Renaissance, there was “rebirth of culture”; a shift towards people acknowledging human achievement. In religious…

sixteenth centuries. Painters, sculptors, and architects exhibited a similar sense of adventure and the desire for greater knowledge and new solutions. During the Renaissance, artist were no longer regarded as mere artisans, as they had been to the medieval past, but for the first time emerged as independent personalities, compared to poets and writers. Many artisans merged…

Benozzo Gozzoli was an influential Italian painter in the Renaissance. He helped impact art as we know it today in many ways. Some of his most acclaimed pieces included Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Adoration of the Magi, and Women at the Tomb. His style of artwork was fresco which is a painting done expeditiously on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling with watercolor. Gozzoli was born around the year 1421 in a village in Italy called Sant’llaria a Colombano. His birth name was Benozzo…

character of the artwork, for example in Michelangelo’s David his arms are in a defying almost victorious position. This gave more meaning to each work of art. Their knowledge of muscles and bones made it easier for painters to paint a feeble old man, a child, a women or young…

people along the lines of Leonardo Da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Titian. Jan van Eyck was also an artist of the Renaissance who was known for perfecting the newly developed art of oil painting. Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter born…

for influence to build upon their ideas. The birth of revolutionary concepts were born, when an artist, decided to take a leap of faith into transforming present ideas, and molding them to their full potential. Filippo Brunelleschi is a well-known Italian Renaissance architect and innovative engineer, most commonly credited for his work on the dome for the Florence Cathedral and the reinvention…

were neorealism and the new wave. Neorealism was not as original as historians once thought, but it did create a distinct approach to fictional filmmaking that had an enormous influence on cinema in other countries (FH 330). One of the most vivid Italian films to represent postwar suffering was Vittorio De Sica’s Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) in 1948. This story is of a worker whose livelihood depends on his bicycle shows the brutality of postwar life (FH 332). This film showed unique…

Italian Renaissance (ital. Rinascimento-"rebirth" or "born again") – a period in the history of European culture, which replaced the culture of the Middle Ages and the previous culture of modern times. Renaissance art emerged based on humanism-- currents of public thought, which originated in the XIV century. In Italy, and then during the second half of the XV and XVI centuries spread to other European countries. Humanism is proclaimed the highest value of man and his benefit. The followers of…

The start of the 16th century is known as the High Renaissance, It is most famous for the Italian Art Masters such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. These remarkable artists made art no longer a craft being made by craftsmen, on the contrary art became an almost noble like statues, something perceived as valuable and glorious. These Italian master arose in the time when Italy was in need of prestige and honorable buildings and in a time were artists no longer had to accommodate to the…