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The Sistine Chapel.
The Sistine Chapel plays a significant role in Italian Renaissance art history, and it houses some of the most iconic images of the era.
Located within the Vatican in Rome it is home to many exceptional works of art. The world famous vaulted ceiling decorated with astonishing frescoes by Michelangelo is a masterpiece of Renaissance art.
If you plan to visit the chapel please take time to look, not just at the ceiling, the walls contain frescoes by several renaissance masters. Paintings by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Signorelli are among the artists who decorated the walls in 1481 many years before Michelangelo frescoed the ceiling.
On the far wall Michelangelo's huge fresco 'The Last Judgement' dominates the space above the altar, it is a must see for any art lover or curious tourist.
Image: The Prophet Jonah by Michelangelo.
Early Italian Renaissance Artists.
The early Renaissance period produced a multitude of multi-talented artists within the city states of Italy. The city of Florence, the most important of these, became a hotbed of innovation where free thinking individuals thrived.
The artists of the fifteenth century created artworks that have influenced painters and sculptors throughout the following centuries.
Important figures such as the painter Masaccio, the architect Brunelleschi and the sculptor Donatello shaped the early Renaissance.
Many more talented artists followed. Names such as Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli, Fra Angelico and others helped to shape the fifteenth century Renaissance period.
Leonardo da Vinci, a towering figure who epitomises the spirit of the Renaissance. he is rightly regarded, even today, as one of the greatest intellectuals of all time.
Image- The nymph Chloris and Zephyrus, God of Wind. a detail from Sandro Botticelli's painting 'Primavera'.
The High Renaissance in Italy.
The Italian High Renaissance is usually described as period between 1490 and 1530, although the timescale is fluid it’s influence reaches far into the sixteenth century and beyond.
This period marks he pinnacle of artistic achievement within the renaissance era. Artists emerging from the city states of Florence, Rome and Venice had fully recaptured the classical arts of antiquity, building on the knowledge and skill set of their fifteenth century predecessors they produced magnificent works of art with astonishing skill and realism.
Three exceptional artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael Sanzio significantly contributed to this new age each creating masterful works of outstanding quality.
Artists from the Venice school are equally important, The painters Titian, Tintoretto, Giorgione and others all produced magnificent works of art.
The statue of David by Michelangelo is a masterpiece in marble.
Michelangelo's statue of David. Is this marble masterpiece the most famous statue in the world?
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Andrea del Verrocchio, multitalented painter and sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio, this gifted and multitalented Renaissance artist's pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli.
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Sandro Botticelli the famous Italian Renaissance artist.
The life and work of the great Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus, Primavera and more
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Leonardo da Vinci, a great artist in an age of great artists
Leonardo Da Vinci the Renaissance man. This gifted polymath artist, scientist, engineer and more was also one of the greatest geniuses in human history
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The Mona Lisa.
Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic masterpiece.
The Mona Lisa is undoubtedly the world’s most recognised painting, it is also the most famous portrait in the world. Being the most famous does not imply that it is the best but certainly it is a masterpiece of outstanding quality.
Who was she?
The identity of the sitter has been questioned although it is accepted that Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo is the subject of the painting it is by no means certain that she was.
The theft of The Mona Lisa.
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911 by an Italian immigrant and employee of the Louvre, Vincenzo Peruggia.
The Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci's magnificent oil painting.
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo's enigmatic Florentine muse is the most famous portrait in the world, a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance.
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Da Vinci Drawings magnificent artwork from the renaissance master
Leonardo Da Vinci drawings offer an insight into the mind of the Renaissance genius
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