Epochs · Florence, Rome & Venice
Italian Renaissance
c. 1400 – 1600
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A revival of classical antiquity driven by humanist scholars and wealthy patrons. Artists developed linear perspective, studied anatomy and proportion, and recast Christian and pagan subjects with new naturalism and ideal beauty. Florence prized disegno, the clarity of drawing; Venice answered with colore, the warmth of pigment and light.
Hallmarks
- Linear perspective
- Classical ideals of proportion
- Humanism and the revival of antiquity
- Florentine disegno versus Venetian colore
Artists here
- Donatello · c. 1386 – 1466
- Piero della Francesca · c. 1415 – 1492
- Giovanni Bellini · c. 1430 – 1516
- Andrea Mantegna · c. 1431 – 1506
- Andrea del Verrocchio · c. 1435 – 1488
- Sandro Botticelli · c. 1445 – 1510
- Leonardo da Vinci · 1452 – 1519
- Michelangelo · 1475 – 1564
- Giorgione · c. 1478 – 1510
- Raphael · 1483 – 1520
- Titian · c. 1488 – 1576
- Correggio · c. 1489 – 1534
- Francesco Melzi · c. 1491 – c. 1570
- Paolo Veronese · 1528 – 1588
