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The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
The art historian Jill Burke was the first to trace the historical origins of the term High Renaissance.It was first coined in German by Jacob Burckhardt in German (Hochrenaissance) in 1855 and has its origins in the "High Style" of painting and sculpture of the time period around the early 16th century described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1764. [2]
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]
High Renaissance Signature Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter , draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school , though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities.
Many high-quality colour plates of paintings by artists of all nationalities. The French pastellists of the eighteenth century by Haldane Macfall (London: Macmillan, 1909). A history of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours : Volume 1, Volume 2 by John Lewis Roget (London, Longmans, Green, and co ...
Italy was the main centre of artistic developments throughout the Renaissance (1300–1600), beginning with the Proto-Renaissance of Giotto and reaching a particular peak in the High Renaissance of Antonello da Messina, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael, whose works inspired the later phase of the Renaissance, known as Mannerism.
Paintings from the Renaissance period in Western Europe, considered to have begun in the 14th century in Italy and the 16th century in northern Europe. See also Early Renaissance painting and Renaissance Classicism
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) [1] was a Venetian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini (who was more highly regarded than Giovanni during his lifetime, although the reverse is true today), and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna.