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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]
Italian Renaissance painting is most often divided into four periods: the Proto-Renaissance (1300–1425), the Early Renaissance (1425–1495), the High Renaissance (1495–1520), and Mannerism (1520–1600). The dates for these periods represent the overall trend in Italian painting and do not cover all painters as the lives of individual ...
Italian Renaissance – late 13th century – c. 1600 – late 15th century – late 16th century Renaissance Classicism Early Netherlandish painting – 1400 – 1500
It was during this period of instability that authors such as Dante and Petrarch lived, and the first stirrings of Renaissance art were to be seen, notably in the realism of Giotto. Paradoxically, some of these disasters would help establish the Renaissance. The Black Death wiped out a third of Europe's population. The resulting labour shortage ...
Religious and political themes were widely explored within the Baroque artistic context, and both paintings and sculptures were characterised by a strong element of drama, emotion and theatricality. Famous Baroque artists include Caravaggio or Rubens. [37] Artemisia Gentileschi was another noteworthy artist, who was inspired by Caravaggio's ...
1290s. 1300s in art. 1310s: Art timeline: The decade of the 1300s in art involved some significant events. Events. 1300: Giotto completes the Badia Polyptych;
1404: Leone Battista Alberti – Italian author whose treatises on painting and architecture are hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art (died 1472) 1405: Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni – Italian Renaissance painter (died 1483) 1406: Filippo Lippi – Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school (died 1469)
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 ...