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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]
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.
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
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]
The painting is referenced in the title and cover artwork for Venus on the Half-Shell, a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer. Andy Warhol reproduced the image in his series Details of Renaissance paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482) Portfolio (F & S II.316–319). The portfolio comprises four screenprints in editions of ...
Upon the painting's theft in 1911, Renaissance historian Bernard Berenson admitted that it had "simply become an incubus, and [he] was glad to be rid of her." [ 141 ] [ 142 ] Jean Metzinger 's Le goûter (Tea Time) was exhibited at the 1911 Salon d'Automne and was sarcastically described as "la Joconde à la cuiller" (Mona Lisa with a spoon) by ...
This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. ... Cretan Renaissance – 1500 – 1700; Heptanese School – 1650 – 1830, began on Ionian Islands;
Leonardo's painting deteriorated rapidly and is now known from a copy by Rubens. [118] Mona Lisa or La Gioconda c. 1503–1516, [d 8] Louvre, Paris. Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, the laughing one. In the present era, it is arguably the most famous painting in ...