The Art of the Italian Renaissance

The Art of Italian Renaissance  12 meetings of 1 hour each

What happened exactly in 1400 circa Florence to turn so radically the way art was meant before into what we mean today? This course offers a concise and complete exploration of Italian art from 1400 to 1600 and covers figures like Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raffaello.

1. Early seeds. Cimabue and Giotto
2. 14^th century Scupture
3. The international gothic
4. The beginning. The Antique revives in the work of Donatello and Brunelleschi.
5. The virtual space in Masaccio’s painting and Lippi’s idealized beauty
6. The philosophical DNA of High Renaissance. Piero della Francesca to Botticelli
7. The Arts of drawing in Florence
8. Dealing with power: Raffaello, Michelangelo and the Church
9. The accomplished humanist: Leonardo
10. An art of colors: the Venetian school
11. Mannerism
12. The transition to Baroque