Renaissance Art (eBook)

Contents 5
Introduction 7
Art in Italy 9
The Italian Early Renaissance 9
The Italian High Renaissance 26
Leonardo da Vinci 31
Michelangelo Buonarroti 37
Raphael 43
Painting in Middle and Upper Italy 46
Painting in Venice 52
Architecture in Northern Italy 64
Art in Germany and the Rest ofNorthern Europe 69
Albrecht Dürer 69
Hans Holbein the Younger 73
Lucas Cranach the Elder 74
Tilman Riemenschneider 76
Veit Stoss 77
Architecture During the German Renaissance 79
Art in the Netherlands,France, England and Spain 83
The Netherlands 83
France 90
England 98
Spain 98
Major Artists 103
Architecture 105
Filippo Brunelleschi (born in Florence in 1377 – died in Florence in 1446) 105
Leon Battista Alberti (born in Genoa in 1404 – died in Rome in 1472) 108
Donato Bramante (born in Urbino in 1444 – died in Rome in 1514) 113
Giuliano da Sangallo (born in Florence circa 1445 – died in Florence circa 1516) 114
Jacopo Sansovino (born in Florence in 1486 – died in Venice in 1570) 118
Andrea Palladio (born in Padua in 1508 – died in Vicenza in 1580) 122
Painting 126
Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) (born in Vicchio in 1387 – died in Rome in 1455) 127
Jan and Hubert Van Eyck (born near Maastricht circa 1390 – died in Bruges in 1441) (born in Bruges circa 1366 – died in Bruges in 1426) 132
Rogier Van der Weyden (born in Tournai in 1399 – died in Brussels in 1464) 135
Masaccio (Tommaso Cassai) (born in San Giovanni Valdarno in 1401 – died in Rome in 1427) 136
Piero della Francesca (born in Borgo San Sepulcro in 1416 – died in Borgo San Sepulcro in 1492) 138
Jean Fouquet (born in Tours in 1420 – died in Tours in 1481) 142
Giovanni Bellini (born in Venice in 1430 – died in Venice in 1516) 144
Andrea Mantegna (born in Isola di Carturo in 1431 – died in Mantova in 1506) 146
Hans Memling (born in Seligenstadt in 1433 – died in Bruges in 1494) 149
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (born in Florence in 1445 – died in Florence in 1510) 150
Leonardo da Vinci (born in Vinci in 1452 – died in Le Clos-Lucé in 1519) 154
Albrecht Dürer (born in Nuremberg in 1471 – died in Nuremberg in 1528) 159
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (born in Urbino in 1483 – died in Rome in 1520) 159
Titian (Vecellio Tiziano) (born in Pieve di Cadore in 1490 – died in Venice in 1576) 162
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (born in Corregio in 1490 – died in Corregio in 1534) 165
Hans Holbein the Younger (born in Augsburg in 1497 – died in London in 1543) 166
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (born in Breda in 1525 – died in Brussels in 1569) 169
Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (born in Verona in 1528 – died in Venice in 1588) 170
Sculpture 173
Lorenzo Ghiberti (born in Florence circa 1378 – died in Florence in 1455) 172
Donatello (born in Florence circa 1386 – died in Florence in 1466) 176
Andrea del Verrocchio (Andrea di Francesco de Cioni) (born in Florence circa 1435 – died in Venice in 1488) 178
Veit Stoss (born in Horb circa 1450 – died in Nuremberg in 1533) 180
Tilman Riemenschneider (born in Heiligenstadt circa 1460 – died in Wurzburg in 1531) 180
Michelangelo Buonarroti, called Michelangelo (born in Caprese in 1475 – died in Rome in 1565) 182
Benvenutto Cellini (born in Florence in 1500 – died in Florence in 1571) 186
Germain Pilon (born in Paris circa 1525 – died in Paris in 1590) 188
Giambologna (Jean Bologne or Boulogne) (born in Douai in 1529 – died in Florence in 1608) 188
Jean Goujon (active 1540 – 1563) 192
Bibliography 194
Index 196