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1400: Bernardo Martorell – Spanish painter, working in a late gothic style (died 1452) 1400: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (died 1482) 1400: Filarete – Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist (died 1469)
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 ...
Quattrocento art shed the decorative mosaics typically associated with Byzantine art along with Christian and Gothic media, as well as styles in stained glass, frescoes, illuminated manuscripts and sculpture. Instead, Quattrocento artists incorporated the more classic forms developed by classical Roman and Greek art.
Generally, "sculpture of any quality" was more expensive than an equivalent in painting, and when in bronze dramatically so. The painted Equestrian Monument of Niccolò da Tolentino of 1456 by Andrea del Castagno appears to have cost only 24 florins, while Donatello's equestrian bronze of Gattamelata, several years earlier, has been "estimated conservatively" at 1,650 florins.
Filippo Lippi, Adoration in the Forest, by 1459 Cimabue, Madonna of Santa Trinita, c. 1285, once in the church of Santa Trinita, now in the Uffizi Gallery. Florentine painting or the Florentine school refers to artists in, from, or influenced by the naturalistic style developed in Florence in the 14th century, largely through the efforts of Giotto di Bondone, and in the 15th century the ...
A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...
The icon was created around the year 1400 to depict the first celebration of the Triumph of Orthodoxy after the founding of the triumph’s celebration in 1370. [2] The usage of the icon was important to the celebration that occurs on the first Sunday of Lent as its main role is to celebrate the end of the iconoclasm in 843. [3]
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