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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.
The painting demonstrates connections to International Gothic, evident in the slender and elegant figure with flowing drapery that breaks at the knee. Additionally, elements of the Paduan Renaissance are incorporated, such as the expansive treatment of the throne and the inclusion of decorative details that evoke an earlier artistic style.
The Macchiaioli (Italian pronunciation: [makkjaˈjɔːli]) were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They strayed from antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies, and did much of their painting outdoors in order to capture natural light, shade, and colour.
The stormy chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio and the robust, illusionistic paintings of the Bolognese Carracci family gave rise to the baroque period in Italian art. Domenichino , Francesco Albani , and later Andrea Sacchi were among those who carried out the classical implications in the art of the Carracci.
Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, [1] painted between 1814 and 1816 and now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. It was commissioned for Gioacchino Murat by Naples' interior minister Giuseppe Zurlo , using dimensions, price and subject specified by Hayez's patron ...
Gino Pellegrini (1941 – 20 December 2014) was an Italian film set designer and painter. Born in Lugo di Vicenza , at age 16 Pellegrini moved to Los Angeles , where he attended the architecture course at UCLA and then achieved a master's degree in Fine Arts. [ 1 ]
The work follows a typical scheme of Perugino's art. The divinity, in this case the resurrected Jesus, is depicted within a mandorla occupying the upper part of the painting, among angels. The lower part shows, above a landscape in the background, the open sarcophagus and several Roman soldiers, three of whom are sleeping and one awakened by ...