Renaissance In Italy
Articles on early Italian renaissance period including history, culture, famous artists, paintings, architecture and music.
Italian Culture: Renaissance Art and Artists
Italian Renaissance art and artists represented an era when there was great cultural and intellectual upheaval in Europe.
Fra Angelico - Painter of the Early Renaissance
One of the most important painters of the Early Renaissance, Fra Angelico was a contemporary of Masaccio.
Andreas Mantegna – Painter of the Italian Renaissance
Mantegna preferred studying classical statues to observing from nature. Some of his contemporaries thought this gave his work a rather sculptural, lifeless appearance.
Michelangelo Art Quotations
Quotations by the outstanding Sculptor, Painter, and Poet of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarotti.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotations
Quotations by the towering genius Leonardo da Vinci, of the Italian Renaissance.
The Spinone Italiano
The Spinone Italiano has been portrayed in Renaissance Paintings – most famously in Andrea Mantegna's fresco 'The Return of Cardinal Gonzaga'.
The Prince of Venosa
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), the notorious Prince of Venosa was the unpunished murderer of his beautiful wife and her lover, and also one of the finest and most innovative composers of Italian madrigals in the late Renaissance.
Coppo di Marcovaldo
Coppo di Marcovaldo is one of the earliest of the Italian Renaissance artists about whom there is clear-cut known information.
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, who became one of the leading artisans under the Medici Rulers of the Middle and Late Renaissance.
Italy: Le Marche Region
For a less traveled tour of Italy, visit the Le Marche region to explore the Renaissance towns near the Adriatic Sea.
Mantegna Row May Ruin Artist's Celebrations
The Italian government and the country's best-known art critic are at loggerheads in a dispute that raises fears that the 500th anniversary celebrations of one of the most innovative artists of the Renaissance could be wrecked.
Travel to Florence: An Ever-Blooming Retreat
In the first century BCE, the Romans appropriately renamed this former Etruscan town Florentia, or destined to flower. With this blessing, Florence (Firenze) remained faithful to its namesake to become the unrivaled authority of Renaissance art, literature and culture.
Fingerprint Puts Leonardo in the Frame
Art historians had always detected the style of Leonardo da Vinci in the mysterious painting Adoration of the Christ Child, which is regarded as a gem of the Renaissance.
Masterpiece Unnoticed for 500 Years
Almost two decades of detective work, triggered by a Latin poem found in the Vatican archives, has led experts to conclude that a statue that had stood unnoticed for five centuries in a small southern Italian town is the work of a Renaissance master. A new book by an Italian gallery...
Thin Grey Veil Lifted From Michelangelo's David
Emotions run high at unveiling of Renaissance masterpiece. Cinzia Parnigoni thanked everyone - from Tuscany's top arts official to the people who had mixed the paste with which she cleaned the world's most famous statue.
Old master's mother was a slave, reveal Da Vinci researchers
Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and scientist whose work and ideas saw him celebrated as the great master of the Renaissance. And documents now unearthed by researchers at a museum in Italy suggest he achieved this greatness despite the humblest of origins as the son of a Middle Eastern slave.
Old Master bargains - two for the price of one
Infra-red vision reveals Renaissance artists' hidden drawings. Renaissance art hidden for 500 years has been retrieved for the public gaze with computer technology and the kind of vision used by an owl or a fox.
Raphael sketch revealed
Using the latest infra-red technology, art experts have discovered the work of the Renaissance master Raphael beneath an oil painting.
Renaissance Villain Given a Makeover
Five hundred years after Lucretia Borgia's passion for incest, murder and corruption spiced the chronicles of villainy, Italy is attempting to rebrand her as an exemplary mother and wife with a warm heart. Academics, artists and politicians are gathering in Rome today to launch a...
The Italian government and the country's best-known art critic are at loggerheads in a dispute that raises fears that the 500th anniversary celebrations of one of the most innovative artists of the Renaissance could be wrecked.
Travel to Florence: An Ever-Blooming Retreat
In the first century BCE, the Romans appropriately renamed this former Etruscan town Florentia, or destined to flower. With this blessing, Florence (Firenze) remained faithful to its namesake to become the unrivaled authority of Renaissance art, literature and culture.
Fingerprint Puts Leonardo in the Frame
Art historians had always detected the style of Leonardo da Vinci in the mysterious painting Adoration of the Christ Child, which is regarded as a gem of the Renaissance.
Masterpiece Unnoticed for 500 Years
Almost two decades of detective work, triggered by a Latin poem found in the Vatican archives, has led experts to conclude that a statue that had stood unnoticed for five centuries in a small southern Italian town is the work of a Renaissance master. A new book by an Italian gallery...
Thin Grey Veil Lifted From Michelangelo's David
Emotions run high at unveiling of Renaissance masterpiece. Cinzia Parnigoni thanked everyone - from Tuscany's top arts official to the people who had mixed the paste with which she cleaned the world's most famous statue.
Old master's mother was a slave, reveal Da Vinci researchers
Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and scientist whose work and ideas saw him celebrated as the great master of the Renaissance. And documents now unearthed by researchers at a museum in Italy suggest he achieved this greatness despite the humblest of origins as the son of a Middle Eastern slave.
Old Master bargains - two for the price of one
Infra-red vision reveals Renaissance artists' hidden drawings. Renaissance art hidden for 500 years has been retrieved for the public gaze with computer technology and the kind of vision used by an owl or a fox.
Raphael sketch revealed
Using the latest infra-red technology, art experts have discovered the work of the Renaissance master Raphael beneath an oil painting.
Renaissance Villain Given a Makeover
Five hundred years after Lucretia Borgia's passion for incest, murder and corruption spiced the chronicles of villainy, Italy is attempting to rebrand her as an exemplary mother and wife with a warm heart. Academics, artists and politicians are gathering in Rome today to launch a...