The Italian city-states were filled with art—all powered by thriving merchant economies.
1400 - 1500 (Early Renaissance)
Beginner's guide
Learn how to recognize some of the characteristics of Italian Renaissance art.
- How to recognize Italian Renaissance art
- Napoleon's appropriation of Italian cultural treasures
- Illustrating a fifteenth century altarpiece
- The study of anatomy
- Contrapposto
- Florence in the Early Renaissance
- Linear perspective: Brunelleschi's experiment
- How one-point linear perspective works
- Early applications of linear perspective
Places
Central Italy
Venice
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Madonnas, Saints, and angels, and churches that recall ancient Roman architecture.
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