Mantegna was fascinated by perspective. His radical foreshortening and realism focus attention on Christ’s wounds.
Location: Pinacoteca di Brera
The Futurists called for the destruction of museums, libraries, and cultural monuments and glorified modern technology and the speed of automobiles, trains, and airplanes.
Umberto Boccioni and the Futurist City
Brotherhoods lent stability to religious and civic life. These wealthy institutions also commissioned paintings.
Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice
As it recesses, Tintoretto’s strange space collapses time. No wonder Saint Mark multiplies.
Jacopo Tintoretto, The Finding of the Body ...
Who gets the girl? This event may be sacred, but Raphael treats us to a very human performance.
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