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Italian Renaissance sculpture was an important part of the art of the Italian Renaissance, in the early stages arguably representing the leading edge. [1] The example of Ancient Roman sculpture hung very heavily over it, both in terms of style and the uses to which sculpture was put.
Glimpse of the artistic and architectural works of the Vittoriano. The architectural and artistic works of the Vittoriano, an Italian national monument located in Rome on the northern slope of the Capitoline Hill, represent, through allegories and personifications, the virtues and sentiments that motivated Italians during the Risorgimento, the period during which Italy achieved its national ...
Mostly built in the 13th century, since 1865 it has housed the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, a national art museum. It is the primary national collection for Italian Renaissance sculpture, of which its collection of Florentine works is unequalled, and for the decorative arts of Florence, especially from the Renaissance period. There are also ...
The building was built in the 18th century on the initiative of Marquis Scipione Maffei, as Verona needed a new and stable opera house: the decision was made to build an Italian-style structure, with vast stalls and overlapping tiers of boxes, and the most famous theatrical architect of the time, architect Bibbiena, was called in to design it.
Rationalist-Fascist architecture was an Italian architectural style developed during the Fascist regime and in particular starting from the late 1920s. It was promoted and practiced initially by the Gruppo 7 group, whose architects included Luigi Figini , Guido Frette, Sebastiano Larco, Gino Pollini , Carlo Enrico Rava, Giuseppe Terragni ...
The Sala di Donatello of the Bargello in Florence, the museum with the largest and best collection of Donatello's work. The following catalog of works by the Florentine sculptor Donatello (born around 1386 in Florence; died on December 13, 1466, in Florence) is based on the monographs by H. W. Janson (1957), Ronald Lightbown (1980), and John Pope-Hennessy (1996), as well as the catalogs of the ...
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Rieti (in Italian) 1655–1657 Sculpture Marble 60 [74] Chair of Saint Peter: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1657–1666 Sculpture Marble, bronze, white and golden stucco 61 [75] Collegiata di San Tommaso da Villanova (in Italian) Castel Gandolfo: 1658–1661 Architecture, sculpture Marble 62(1) [76] Santa ...