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3 giorni fa · In the 15th century, the Renaissance spread rapidly from its birthplace in Florence to the rest of Italy and soon to the rest of Europe. The invention of the printing press by German printer Johannes Gutenberg allowed the rapid transmission of these new ideas. As it spread, its ideas diversified and changed, being adapted to local ...
1 giorno fa · Chapter 1 – Maude Vanhaelen, “Teaching Plato in Sixteenth-Century Italy” Chapter 2 – Simone Fellina, “Teaching Plato in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Florence and Pisa: from Francesco Cattani da Diacceto to Girolamo Bardi” Chapter 3 – Barbara Bartocci, “Shifting Away from Aristotelianism towards Platonism.
5 giorni fa · The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world around it, based on the local culture and humanism already ...
4 giorni fa · It’s under Cosimo, in the mid-fifteenth century, that the Florentine Renaissance reached its full flowering. Strathern borrows a lot, as all historians of this period must, from Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists , written in the sixteenth century.
4 giorni fa · Vasari (sixteenth-century artist and critic) thought that excellence in painting came from refinement, invention, and virtuoso technique, emphasising the artist’s intellect. I think what Vasari believed can be true of Mannerism. I believe its true gift is the ability to see the world not as it is but as it could be - full of emotion and drama.
1 giorno fa · The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art acquired Striding Mars (Mars Gradivus) a rare and important work by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna. Modelled between 1565-1570 and cast in Florence around 1580, the small-scale (15.5 x 22.5 inches) bronze statuette epitomizes the artist’s mastery of the human form, with the grace, elegance, and dynamism for which he has been renowned for ...
1 giorno fa · In an astonishing revelation from the vaults of Venice’s Museo Correr, a late 15th-century painting has emerged, captivating scholars and art enthusiasts alike. Supported by the G.E. Ghirardi Foundation, this long-lost work has undergone an extensive and complex restoration, now returning to the public eye for admiration and study.
