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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]