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Raphael: The Betrothal of the Virgin (1504), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.. 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.
Italian art critic Germano Celant organized two exhibitions in 1967 and 1968, followed by an influential book called Arte Povera, promoting the notion of a revolutionary art, free of convention, the power of structure, and the market place. Although Celant attempted to encompass the radical elements of the entire international scene, the term ...
The first Italian diaspora began around 1880 and ended in the 1920s to the early 1940s with the rise of Fascist Italy. [141] Poverty was the main reason for emigration, specifically the lack of land as mezzadria sharecropping flourished in Italy, especially in the South, and property became subdivided over generations.
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 ...
At the beginning of the eighties, on the occasion of three exhibitions on Italian artists born in the 1920s (1981), the 1910s (1982) and the first decade (1985) of the twentieth century, Di Genova began drafting the contents of what would later become volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the encyclopedia.
The Italian Renaissance (Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was a period in Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity .
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Gloria Angelica, Foppa Chapel, Church of San Marco, a typical example of art of the second half of the 16th century in Milan. The Milanese art scene of the second half of the 16th century must be analyzed by considering the particular position of the city: while for the Spanish Empire it represented a strategic military outpost, from the religious point of view it was ...
An intervention again of a different kind was the realization of the first nucleus of the Villaggio dei Giornalisti, founded in the early years of the 20th century by a cooperative of professionals belonging to the world of journalism, which aimed to build housing dedicated to the petty bourgeoisie, who had been excluded from the popular ...