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Renaissance Art

By Victoria Charles

Book information

Publisher
Parkstone Press
Year
2007
ISBN
978-1-78042-792-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
112 MB (117591768 bytes)
Series
Art of Century Collection
Pages
200\200
Topic
Art
Time added
2013-11-22 09:53:19

Description

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphael, Durer and Bruegel are among the artists who made considerable contributions to the art of the Renaissance.

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