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The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera). They are regarded as part of Minoan art , although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete , and the political relationship between the two islands at the ...
In the 1920s, a group of young architects, most of them rationalists, found inspiration for their works in Mediterranean architecture. [15] They reevaluated the traditional buildings ("architecture without architects") of southern Italy, the Greek Islands and the North African coast, since they thought that right in those places nestled the ...
In cases where one civilization encroaches on another or a mixture of civilizations is present, both names are used. Though culturally rather different, the Wall Paintings of Thera are regarded as part of Minoan art; all types form part of the wider grouping of Aegean art. These frescos were primarily murals, few of which survived on their walls.
The facial features (the profile, almond-shaped eyes, large nose) in the frescoes and sculptures, and the depiction of reddish-brown men and light-skinned women, influenced by archaic Greek art, follow the artistic traditions from the Eastern Mediterranean.
One Croatian artist who worked mainly in northern Italy was Giorgio Schiavone (or Juraj Ćulinović), who was born in Skradin in Dalmatia and went on to work with Francesco Squarcione in Padua. Today, his paintings are held by several prestigious galleries worldwide, and he is considered the most important Croatian painter of the 15th century.
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507), official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice; Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family; Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400–c. 1470), painter, father of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini; Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/1722–1780), urban landscape painter and printmaker
The commission for the tomb forced the artist to leave Florence with his planned Battle of Cascina painting unfinished. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] By this time, Michelangelo was established as an artist; [ 52 ] both he and Julius II had hot tempers and soon argued.
Germanic pre-Romanesque art during the 120-year period from 936 to 1056 is commonly called Ottonian art after the three Saxon emperors named Otto (Otto I, Otto II, and Otto III) who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 936 to 1001. After the decline of the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire was re-established under the Saxon (Ottonian) dynasty.