Renaissance art
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Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel wit
Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ in the Prado Museum, 1507
Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (interior view), 1432
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1513 – 1514, Galleria Borghese, Rome
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1507, Museo del Prado, Madrid
Donatello
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop
Renaissance art
…the church. A revived interest in the Classics brought about the first archaeological study of Roman remains by the architect Brunelleschi and sculptor Donatello. The revival of a style of architecture based on classical precedents inspired a corresponding classicism in painting and sculpture, which manifested…
Possible self-portrait, c. 1446-1449
David at the Bargello in Florence
16th-century portraits of Florentine culture heroes: Giotto, Paolo Uccello, Donatello, Antonio Manetti, Brunelleschi.
Ghiberti and workshop, the Nativity relief of the north doors for the Florence Baptistery from probably before 1407