In High and Late Renaissance self-portrait becomes more intimate and turns to mean of self-cognition. New art of Northern Europe saved closer relations to the thinking of the Middle Ages. Renaissance in the Northern countries took place mainly within the religious image...
Italian Renaissance Artistic Traditions of the Northern and Italian RenaissanceArtistic Traditions of the Northern and Italian Renaissance
Hence it resulted that though the Middle Ages were in Italy a period of terrible political anarchy, yet Italian culture recovered far more rapidly than that of the northern nations, whom the Italians continued down to the modern period to regard contemptuously as still mere barbarians. View in ...
Campania- a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia Ferrara- a city in northern Italy; "in the 13th century Ferrara was a center of Renaissance learning and the arts" Emilia-Romagna- a region of north central Italy on the Adriatic ...
In the past, physical love was not for public display. Images of love and sex in Italian Renaissance art are either metaphorical, mythological, or private.
Sofonisba Anguissola's undeniable talent attracted the attention of Michelangelo and the king of Spain. Today more and more of her works are being identified, securing the legacy of this remarkable woman.
Also, the increasing cultural relevance of Florence during the periods of 'Umanesimo ' and Rinascimento (Renaissance) made its vulgare (dialect) a standard in the arts. ClassificationItalian is a member of the Italo-Dalmatian group of languages, which is part of the Italo-Western grouping of ...
In Italy, the perception was that the power and glory of ancient Rome (broken by invading Northern tribes) could be reborn. This was a major driving force for the beginnings of the Renaissance. The Renaissance in Italy saw a move away from the medieval art of the past to a more ...
northern Italian (Gallo-Italian dialects of the Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Venice, and Istria), central-southern (Marche, Umbria, Latian, Campanian, Apulian, Abruzzese, Molise, Basilicata, and Sicilian dialects), and Tuscan (dialects of Florence, Siena, Arezzo, and Pisa). Some northern...
“Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art.” The manifesto emphasised the importance of machine aesthetics (arte meccanica), which became one of the dominant strands of Futurism in the 1920s. He and Paladini also staged the Mechanical Futurist Ballet (Ballo meccano futurista) at Anton Giulio Bragaglia...