Renaissance art

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Giotto: Lamentation

Britannica's Guide to Art Movements

Lorenzo Ghiberti: Gates of Paradise

copy of Donatello's St. George

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Raphael: Saint Michael Overwhelming the Demon

Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks

Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam

Raphael: School of Athens

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna and Child Enthroned by Gentile da Fabriano, tempera on panel, c. 1420, 95.7 x 56.5 cm

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Florence Baptistery of Saint John, Italy

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Giotto: Lamentation

Lorenzo Ghiberti: Gates of Paradise

copy of Donatello's St. George

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Raphael: Saint Michael Overwhelming the Demon

Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks

Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam

Raphael: School of Athens

Rome: Tempietto

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Renaissance architecture Renaissance revival Late Renaissance Early Renaissance Renaissance the arts Romanticism Catholic imagination realism Baroque art and architecture objectivism art for art’s sake South Asian arts Islamic arts Southeast Asian arts interior design

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Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.

François Clouet

French painter

Charles Bordes

French composer

Master of Flémalle: Virgin and Child

Master of Flémalle

Flemish painter

Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt

Swiss historian

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Italian artist and author

Pater, Walter

Walter Pater

English author

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark

British art historian

Berenson, photograph by David Seymour

Bernard Berenson

American art critic

Palomino De Castro Y Velasco

Spanish painter

Lodovico Zacconi

Italian musicologist

Carel van Mander

Dutch painter and writer

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Aerial view of Florence (Firenze), Italy from the campanile of the Duomo, with the gigantic dome (designed by Filippo Brunelleschi) in the foreground. Unidentifiable tourists are visible on top of the dome, which provide a measure of the building s scale.

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