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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.
The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." ( Avot 2:15). A light-hearted version in England, thought to have originated in Shropshire, is the pun "Bars longa, vita brevis" i.e. so many bars (or pubs) to visit, in so short a life.
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 Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world around it, based on the local culture and humanism already highlighted ...
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 ...
Leonardo Da Vinci's baptism record. Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"), [9] [10] [c] was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, 20 miles from Florence.
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 ...
Early Netherlandish painting – 1400 – 1500 Early Cretan School – post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400 – 1500 Mannerism and Late Renaissance – 1520 – 1600, began in central Italy