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Term Paper: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. Renaissance

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays [...]

Leonardo Da Vinci – Leonardo In Perspective

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Renaissance or “rebirth” is the term used to describe the rediscovery and development of the classical Arts, philosophies and sciences of the ancient Greek and Roman civilisations. Application and development [...]

Renaissance architecture

Written on February 10th, 2010 by / found by TheGuruno shouts

Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence 1298-1462, Filippo Brunelleschi

Piazza Del Duomo, Florence, 11-19th cent.,

Babtistery of San Giovanni, Florence, 1060-1150

Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1458-70, Leon Battista Alberti

San Miniato al Monte, Florence, 1070, [...]

What changed the medieval world order, giving impetus for the individualism and humanism of the Renaissance?

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Changes or Broken Links:
14th century — Rise of the middle class. This was a blow to the social hierarchy and the ascendency of the aristocracy.
1517 — Martin Luther presses the [...]

Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Written on December 11th, 2009 by / found by TheGuruno shouts

In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included [...]

American Impressionism | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Written on December 9th, 2009 by / found by TheGuruone shout

After the end of the Civil War in 1865, the United States gained unprecedented international political and economic status. American art patrons—notably Northerners who had made fortunes from the [...]

American Impressionism

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frank W. Benson, Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine, 1902, private collection.

Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors, was practiced widely [...]

What is Impressionism?

Written on December 9th, 2009 by / found by TheGuruno shouts

The Impressionist style of painting developed in the late nineteenth century in France. Although the Impressionist movement did not exclusively consist of French artists, it did start in France and [...]

Impressionism: Definition

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The term, first used sarcastically, was derived in part from the title of a painting, Impression, Sunrise (1872, Musée Marmottan-Claude Monet, Paris), by Claude Monet. In 1874 he exhibited the work [...]

FAUVISM: where did it come from

Written on November 28th, 2009 by / found by TheGuruno shouts

Fauvism, based on the exaltation of pure colour, was the first art revolution of the twentieth century. It was not a school, complete with programme and theory, but the result [...]

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