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Location Europe • France • Holland • Italy

Did You Know?

  • Developments in global finance and trade may have enabled the Renaissance.
  • As a direct consequence of humanist transformations of education, many prominent Renaissance figures were polymaths, trained in music, art, writing, and science.
  • Becoming a patron of artists and intellectuals was one way that Italian elites could display their wealth during the Renaissance.

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Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
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Pietro Lorenzetti: Birth of the Virgin
Fra Angelico: The Annunciation
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
Santa Maria Novella
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El Greco's The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, explained
Florence: Birthplace of the Renaissance
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Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Giotto: Lamentation
Giotto
Italian painter
Bramante, Donato
Donato Bramante
Italian architect
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Spanish artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
Italian painter
Donatello: David
Donatello
Italian sculptor
Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico
Italian painter
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect
Masaccio
Italian painter
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian sculptor
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter

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Venus and the Lute Player, ca. 1565-70, Oil on canvas, 65 x 82.5 in. (165.1 x 209.6 cm) by Titian and Workshop. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio or Vecelli) Italian Renaissance painter, Venetian school.
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