Italian Renaissance
A style that used various tools to create naturalism, including cast shadows, linear perspective, contrapposto, and classical models.
Italian Renaissance
A style that used various tools to create naturalism, including cast shadows, linear perspective, contrapposto, and classical models.
Basics to get you started
A primer for Italian renaissance art
How to recognize Italian Renaissance art
Why commission artwork during the renaissance?
Types of renaissance patronage
The role of the workshop in Italian renaissance art
Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice
The status of the artist in renaissance Italy
The Italian renaissance court artist
Humanism in renaissance Italy
Humanism in Italian renaissance art
Florence in the Early Renaissance
Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction
The Sack of Rome in 1527
Early applications of linear perspective
Linear perspective explained
How one-point linear perspective works
Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi’s Experiment
Oil paint in Venice
Saving Venice
Greek painters in renaissance Venice
Venetian glass, an introduction
Chiaroscuro explained
Atmospheric perspective explained
Contrapposto explained
Foreshortening explained
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
Renaissance watercolors: materials and techniques
Confronting power and violence in the renaissance nude
Sex, Power, and Violence in the Renaissance Nude
Retro style in the Italian Renaissance
Preparatory drawing during the Italian renaissance, an introduction
Guido Mazzoni and Renaissance Emotions
Renaissance woman: Isabella d’Este
Galileo Galilei
Galileo and the science of nature
Africa in the European imagination
The Medici collect the Americas
Tiny timeline: global Europe
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art
Raphael, an introduction
Works of Art
Artists
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)
