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The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. [ 1 ] This new focus in art , literature , quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity , received a major impulse from several ...
The prehistoric art of Spain had many important periods-it was one of the main centres of European Upper Paleolithic art and the rock art of the Spanish Levant in the subsequent periods. In the Iron Age large parts of Spain were a centre for Celtic art , and Iberian sculpture has a distinct style, partly influenced by coastal Greek settlements.
European prehistoric art is an important part of the European cultural heritage. [10] Prehistoric art history is usually divided into four main periods: Stone Age, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. Most of the remaining artifacts of this period are small sculptures and cave paintings.
Expressionism and Symbolism are broad rubrics that involve several important and related movements in 20th-century painting that dominated much of the avant-garde art being made in Western, Eastern and Northern Europe. Expressionist works were painted largely between World War I and World War II, mostly in France, Germany, Norway, Russia ...
1413: Jean de la Huerta – Spanish sculptor (died 1462) 1413/1414: Pietro Vannini – Italian artist and silversmith (died 1495/1496) 1414: Tenshō Shūbun – Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk (died 1463) 1415: Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro – Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1477)
100 great paintings from Duccio to Picasso is a selection of European paintings in the National Gallery, London, from the 14th to the 20th century. They were selected by curator Dillian Gordon for a National Gallery book in 1981.
1424: Lluís Borrassà – Spanish Gothic Era painter (born 1350) 1422: Conrad von Soest – German Gothic painter (born 1370) 1422: Taddeo di Bartolo – Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance (born 1362) 1421: Antonio Bamboccio – Italian painter and sculptor of the Gothic period (born 1351)
Italian art during the 17th century was predominantly Baroque in essence. 17th-century Italian Baroque art was similar in style and subject matter to that during the same period in Spain - characterised by rich, dark colours, and often religious themes relating notably to martyrdom, and also the presence of several still lifes.