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Hace 3 días · Explore the profound impact of Italian Renaissance paintings on art, culture, and society, shaping the course of Western artistic tradition.
Hace 2 días · The Madonna della Pietà ( Italian: [pjeˈta]; 1498–1499), otherwise known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
Hace 2 días · The Last Judgment (Italian: Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.
Hace 4 días · English literature - Renaissance, Poetry, Drama: In a tradition of literature remarkable for its exacting and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods have been said to represent the most brilliant century of all.
Hace 15 horas · Paolo Uccello (c.1397-1475), Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano, c.1438-40, tempera on panel, 182 x 320 cm., bought 1857, National Gallery, London Uccello’s large, spectacular and decorative battle scene of ornamentally-caparisoned knights on rocking-horse chargers has been framed for a century and-a-half in a distracting Victorian interpretation of a Romanesque billet…
Hace 1 día · The Louvre's oldest section still standing above ground, its palatial Lescot Wing, dates from the late 1540s, when Francis I started the replacement of the greatly expanded medieval castle with a new design inspired by classical antiquity and Italian Renaissance architecture.
Hace 5 días · Florence - Renaissance, Italy, Art: Florentia (“The Flourishing Town”) was founded in 59 bce as a colony for soldiers of the armies of Rome and was laid out as a rectangular garrison town (castrum) below the hilltop Etruscan town of Faesulae.
