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The emphatically classical church façade of Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (1578–90) was designed by the influential Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.. During the Italian Renaissance and with the demise of Gothic style, major efforts were made by architects such as Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola to revive the language of architecture of first and ...
Architectural paintings, and the related vedute or cityscapes, were especially popular in 18th century Italy. Another genre closely related to architectural painting proper were the capriccios, fantasies set in and focusing on an imaginary architecture. Dirck van Delen, A family beside the tomb of Willem I in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, 1645 ...
Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity, that is, ancient Greek architecture and the architecture of ancient Rome. It also refers to the style or styles of architecture influenced by those. For example, most of the styles originating in post-Renaissance Europe can be described as classical architecture. This broad use of ...
Painting Andrea Mantegna: An Old Man and his Grandson: Painting Domenico Ghirlandaio: Pastoral Concert: Painting Titian: Madonna of the Rabbit: Painting Titian: Woman with a Mirror: Painting Titian: Venus and Cupid with a Satyr: Painting Antonio da Correggio: Susanna and the Elders: Painting Tintoretto: La Bella Nani: Painting Paolo Veronese ...
Image credits: culturaltutor Frederic Edwin Church's magnificent painting El Khasné, Petra (1874) depicts the temple in the historical city of Petra, Jordan.Church was an American landscape ...
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The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture with picturesque aesthetics. The resulting style of architecture was ...
If you’ve ever thought classical art masterpieces could use more cats, then you’re in for a treat!Svetlana Petrova reinterprets famous art pieces by incorporating her silly cat pictures. The ...