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Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance artists made deliberate references to the art, architecture, and ideals of Classical Rome and Greece, and took Christian stories and transformed them into real, believable images. These artists used various tools to create their naturalistic images including cast shadows, linear perspective, and contrapposto.
Basics to get you started
Florence in the Early Renaissance
Early applications of linear perspective
Linear perspective interactive
Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi’s Experiment
Oil paint in Venice
How to recognize Italian Renaissance art
Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice
Saving Venice
Types of renaissance patronage
Why commission artwork during the renaissance?
Guido Mazzoni and Renaissance Emotions
Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques
The role of the workshop in Italian renaissance art
Greek painters in renaissance Venice
Venetian glass, an introduction
Humanism in renaissance Italy
Humanism in Italian renaissance art
A primer for Italian renaissance art
The Italian renaissance court artist
Chiaroscuro explained
Linear perspective explained
Atmospheric perspective explained
Confronting power and violence in the renaissance nude
Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction
Tiny timelines: Michelangelo in context
The status of the artist in renaissance Italy
The Sack of Rome in 1527
Galileo and the science of nature
The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
Retro style in the Renaissance
Leonardo: Anatomist
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 1 of 4): Setting the stage
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 4 of 4): The Counter-Reformation
Raphael, an introduction
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 2 of 4): Martin Luther
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 3 of 4): Varieties of Protestantism
The Protestant Reformation
Contrapposto explained
Foreshortening explained
Sex, Power, and Violence in the Renaissance Nude
Preparatory drawing during the Italian renaissance, an introduction
Leonardo and his drawings
Renaissance woman: Isabella d’Este
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
Galileo Galilei
The Council of Trent and the call to reform art
Images of African Kingship, Real and Imagined
How one-point linear perspective works
Manuscripts: major works of art
The Medici collect the Americas
Tiny timeline: global Europe
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art
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Front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, Marco del Buono Giamberti and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso, Cassone with the Conquest of Trebizond, after c. 1461, poplar wood, linen, polychromed and gilded gesso with panel painted in tempera and gold, 100.3 x 195.6 x 83.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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