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Art in the 19th and 20th century

While the eighteenth century was a lean years for Italian art, the next century was even worse, and Paris became the artistic capital of Europe. Probably the only outstanding native painter was …

Art of Italy – EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

The process of the decline of Italian art in many of its most important centers gained momentum in the eighteenth century., from which only Venice and Rome were free. The former owed its leading role to the reborn after a hundred years' break., great tradition …

BAROQUE

The liberation of Italian art from the aridity of late Mannerism was initially the work of the cities., which previously played an artistically inferior role. Bologna stood out the earliest, thanks to the academy, founded here in 1585 by members of the House of Caracci — Ludovico (155-1619). Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale …

LATE RENAISSANCE

The perfection of form achieved during the late Renaissance was the culmination of centuries-old aspirations.. Because artists could not expect, that they will surpass the most outstanding achievements of Michelangelo and Raphael, they had to go in a different direction. This is how Mannerism was born. It was a consciously intellectual direction., …

RENAISSANCE

Insofar as the protorenesans is related to the specific circumstances of the competition for the doors of the Baptistery in Florence, the right era has begun, as it is commonly believed, from the wall painting The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). In addition to spatial values and illusionist effects, …

XV CENTURY IN THE REST OF ITALY

Although the fifteenth century gave birth to a huge number of artists operating throughout Italy – including in many places without a previous tradition, from which to draw – no other city has come close …

FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE

The date often given as the beginning of the Renaissance is the year 1401. when the Florentine authorities announced a competition for the right to make the second door of the baptistery. The candidates were to present a mock work on the Sacrifice of Abraham — a difficult test involving narrative problems, Expression, traffic and …

Despite all these breakthroughs, the road to the Renaissance was not marked by a coherent sequence of events. The leading school of painting in the fourteenth century was not Florence, but nearby Siena, where artists were dealt with completely different issues. It had a lot to do with the patronage figure. …

PRECURSORS OF THE RENAISSANCE

The border between the Gothic and Renaissance eras, so pronounced in the painting and sculpture of other countries, is blurred in Italy. In the mid-thirteenth century. there has already been a phenomenon considered one of the foundations of the Renaissance – the rediscovery of the full sense of form, …

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

In the early Christian period, the sculpture was almost completely abandoned. (except for the adorning sarcophagi), although a glorious exception here is the wooden door of the Church of Santa Sabina in Rome. Earliest polychromes, created in the Roman catacombs. are devoid of greater artistic value. but Christian painters gradually …