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2. Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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   Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.

3. Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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   Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]

4. Chiaroscuro - Wikipedia

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   Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.

5. Themes in Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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   This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo 's Last Judgement of the 1530s.

6. Cinquecento - Wikipedia

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   Their images are among the most widely known works of art in the world. Leonardo's The Last Supper, Raphael's The School of Athens and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are the textbook examples of this period. High Renaissance painting evolved into Mannerism (c. 1520–1580), especially in Florence.

7. Italian art - Wikipedia

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   Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is an Italian art masterpiece famous worldwide. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [1] [2] it has normally been on display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797. [3] Since ancient times, Greeks, Etruscans and Celts have inhabited the south, centre and north of the Italian peninsula ...