By Victoria Charles
The Renaissance all started on the finish of the 14th century in Italy and had prolonged around the complete of Europe by means of the second one half the sixteenth century. The rediscovery of the splendour of historic Greece and Rome marked the start of the rebirth of the humanities following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the center a while. a couple of artists started to innovate within the domain names of portray, sculpture, and structure. Depicting definitely the right and the particular, the sacred and the profane, the interval supplied a body of reference which encouraged ecu artwork over the subsequent 4 centuries.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphael, Dürer and Bruegel are one of the artists who made huge contributions to the paintings of the Renaissance.
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The frescoes in the vault complement the wall frescoes Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Sistine Madonna, 1512-1513. 5 x 201 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), The Madonna of the Goldfinch, 1506. 2 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Portrait of a Young Girl also called The Lady with a Unicorn, 1506. Oil on wood panel, transferred to canvas, 65 x 51 cm. Palazzo Pitti, Florence. qxp 4/5/2007 8:15 AM Page 46 and show the Law, Poetry, Theology and Philosophy, which are each embodied through female figures surrounded by two angels.
1504. Tempera on wood, diameter: 120 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Michelangelo Buonarroti, Virgin with Child and St John the Baptist as a Child (Tondo Pitti), 1504-1505. 5 cm. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Michelangelo and Giacomo della Porta, St Peter’s Basilica, Drum of the Cupola (North-West view), 1546-1590. St Peter’s Basilica, Rome. 40 Page 40 of Man and its consequences. After the manifold fates of the Israelites, The Fall of Man was to be followed by the redemption, and the redeemer even come from its midst.
Oil on panel, 199 x 122 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, The Baptism of Christ, 1470-1476. Oil and tempera on wood panel, 177 x 151 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. qxp 4/5/2007 8:10 AM Leonardo da Vinci, The Annunciation, 1472-1475. Oil on wood panel, 98 x 217 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. qxp 4/26/2007 4:54 PM Leonardo da Vinci, Drapery Study for a Sitting Figure, c. 1470. 3 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with St Anne, c.