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Renaissance painting bridges the period of European art history between the art of the Middle Ages
Medieval art

Medieval art covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art history in Western art history, the Islamic art. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves....
 and Baroque art
Baroque art

Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with political absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival, but the existence of important Baroque art and Baroque architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states throughout Western Europe underscores its wides...
. Painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 of this era is connected to the "rebirth" (renaissance in French) of classical antiquity, the impact of humanism
Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the last years of the 14th century....
 on artists and their patrons, new artistic sensibilities and techniques, and, in general, the transition from the Medieval period to the Early modern age.

In the visual arts, significant achievements occur around 1400 in both Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and north of the Alps
Alps

The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west....
.






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Renaissance painting bridges the period of European art history between the art of the Middle Ages
Medieval art

Medieval art covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art history in Western art history, the Islamic art. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves....
 and Baroque art
Baroque art

Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with political absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival, but the existence of important Baroque art and Baroque architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states throughout Western Europe underscores its wides...
. Painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 of this era is connected to the "rebirth" (renaissance in French) of classical antiquity, the impact of humanism
Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the last years of the 14th century....
 on artists and their patrons, new artistic sensibilities and techniques, and, in general, the transition from the Medieval period to the Early modern age.

In the visual arts, significant achievements occur around 1400 in both Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and north of the Alps
Alps

The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west....
. Masaccio
Masaccio

Masaccio , was the first great Painting of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting....
's art and the writings of Leon Battista Alberti helped establish linear perspective and the idealization of the human body as primary ideas of Italian Renaissance painting in the early 15th century. Likewise, Early Netherlandish artists such as Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painting active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
 were innovators in oil painting
Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil ? especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil....
 and intuitive spatial compositions. The brief High Renaissance
High Renaissance

The High Renaissance, in the history of art, denotes the culmination of the art of the Italian Renaissance between 1450 and 1527. Because Pope Julius II patronized many artists during this time, the movement was centered in Rome; it had previously been centered in Florence....
 (c. 1500–1520) centred around Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
, Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
 and Raphael
Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
 in Florence and Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, was a culmination of the Italian achievements, while artists like Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer

'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
 brought a similar level of intellectual and artistic innovation to northern Europe. Late Renaissance painting, from about 1520 until the end of the 16th century, is marked by various Mannerist tendencies that spread from Italy through the rest of France.

Themes and symbolism

, Magnificat, 1480-81, tempera on panel, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
]] Renaissance artists painted a wide variety of themes. Religious altarpiece
Altarpiece

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting....
s, fresco
Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
 cycles, and small works for private devotion were very popular. For inspiration, painters in both Italy and northern Europe frequently turned to Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine

Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine...
's Golden Legend
Golden Legend

The Golden Legend, Legenda Aurea, or Legenda Sanctorum by Jacobus de Voragine is a collection of fanciful hagiography or lives of the saints, that became a late Middle Ages bestseller....
 (1260), a highly influential source book for the lives of saint
Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
s that had already had a strong influence on Medieval artists. The rebirth of classical antiquity and Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the last years of the 14th century....
 also resulted in many Mythological
Mythology

The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
 and history painting
History painting

History painting, as formulated in 1667 by Andr? F?libien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism, was in the hierarchy of genres considered to be the grand genre....
s. Ovidian stories, for example, were very popular. Decorative ornament
Ornament (architecture)

In architecture, ornament is a decorative detail used to embellish parts of a building or interior furnishing. Ornament can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or impressed onto a surface as applied ornament....
, often used in painted architectural elements, was especially influenced by classical Roman motifs.

Techniques

  • The use of perspective
    Perspective (graphical)

    File:Staircase perspective.jpgPerspective in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface , of an image as it is perceived by the eye....
    : The first major treatment of the painting as a window into space appeared in the work of Giotto di Bondone
    Giotto di Bondone

    Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an italy Painting and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance....
    , at the beginning of the 14th century. True linear perspective was formalized later, by Filippo Brunelleschi
    Filippo Brunelleschi

    Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy....
     and Leon Battista Alberti. In addition to giving a more realistic presentation of art, it moved Renaissance painters into painting more paintings.


  • foreshortening - The term foreshortening refers to the artistic effect of shortening lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth.


  • sfumato - The term sfumato was coined by Italian Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci, and refers to a fine art painting technique of blurring or softening of sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending of one tone into another through the use of thin glazes to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. This stems from the Italian word sfumare meaning to evaporate or to fade out. The Latin origin is fumare, to smoke. The opposite of sfumato is chiaroscuro.


  • chiaroscuro - The term chiaroscuro refers to the fine art painting modeling effect of using a strong contrast between light and dark to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. This comes from the Italian words meaning light (chiaro) and dark (scuro), a technique which came into wide use in the Baroque Period.; Sfumato is the opposite of chiaroscuro.


  • Balance and Proportion: proper sizes and the use of airy, bright colors. The human anatomy wasn't as idealized as during the ancient times.


Italian artists

  • Leone Battista Alberti
    Leone Battista Alberti

    Leon Battista Alberti was an Italy author, artist, architect, poet, Catholic_priest, linguistics, philosopher, and cryptography, and general Renaissance humanist polymath....
     (1404-1472)
  • Fra Angelico
    Fra Angelico

    Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"....
     (c.1395-1455)
  • Biagio d'Antonio
    Biagio d'Antonio

    File:Biagio d'Antonio, Betrothal.jpgBiagio d?Antonio, also Biagio Tucci , was an Italian Renaissance painting whose style was influenced by Fra Filippo Lippi, Andrea Verrocchio and Ghirlandaio....
  • Giotto di Bondone
    Giotto di Bondone

    Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an italy Painting and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance....
     (1267-1337)
  • Donatello
    Donatello

    Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
  • Sandro Botticelli
    Sandro Botticelli

    Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italy Painting of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ....
  • Masaccio
    Masaccio

    Masaccio , was the first great Painting of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting....
  • Domenico Veneziano
    Domenico Veneziano

    Domenico Veneziano was an Italy painter of the early Renaissance, active mostly in Perugia and Tuscany.Little is known of his birth, though he is thought to have been born in Venice, hence his last name....
  • Filippo Lippi
    Filippo Lippi

    Fra' Filippo Lippi , also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italy painter of the Italian Quattrocento school....
  • Andrea del Castagno
    Andrea del Castagno

    Andrea del Castagno or Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla was an Italy painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Tommaso Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone....
  • Piero di Cosimo
    Piero di Cosimo

    Piero di Cosimo was an Italy Renaissance Painting....
  • Paolo Uccello
    Paolo Uccello

    Paolo Uccello was an Italy painter who was notable for his pioneering work on visual Perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point....
  • Antonello da Messina
    Antonello da Messina

    Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicily Painting active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of North Italy, especially Venice....
  • Pisanello
    Pisanello

    Pisanello , known professionally as Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto, also erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance and Quattrocento....
  • Andrea Mantegna
    Andrea Mantegna

    Andrea Mantegna was a Venetian Renaissance artist, a student of Ancient Rome archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective , e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality....
  • Luca Signorelli
    Luca Signorelli

    Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance Painting who was noted in particular for his ability as a draughtsman and his use of foreshortening....
  • Alessio Baldovinetti
    Alessio Baldovinetti

    Alesso Baldovinetti was an Italian early Renaissance painter....
  • Piero della Francesca
    Piero della Francesca

    Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Italian Renaissance. To contemporaries, he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is chiefly appreciated for his art....
  • Masolino
  • Andrea del Verrocchio
    Andrea del Verrocchio

    Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italy sculpture, goldsmith and Painting who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence....
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio
    Domenico Ghirlandaio

    Domenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo....
  • Benozzo Gozzoli
    Benozzo Gozzoli

    Benozzo Gozzoli was an Italy Renaissance Painting from Florence. He is best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici depicting festive, vibrant processions with wonderful attention to detail and a pronounced International Gothic influence....
  • Carlo Crivelli
    Carlo Crivelli

    Carlo Crivelli was an Italy Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his career mostly in the Marche, where he absorbed early influences from the Vivarini, Francesco Squarcione and Mantegna into a distinctive personal style that makes a contrast to his Venetian contemporary Giovanni Bellini....


Artists of the Low Countries

Main articles: Early Netherlandish painting
Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
 for 15th century artists, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting
Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting

Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting represents the sixteenth-century response to Italian Renaissance art in the Low Countries. These artists, who span from the Antwerp Mannerism and Hieronymus Bosch at the start of the century to the late Mannerism such as Frans Floris and Karel van Mander at the end, drew on both the recent innovations of...
 for 16th century artists

  • Jean Bellegambe (c.1470-1535)
  • Hieronymus Bosch
    Hieronymus Bosch

    Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painting Painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives....
     (c.1450-1516)
  • Dirk Bouts
    Dirk Bouts

    Dieric Bouts, also spelled Dirk, Dierick and Dirck was an Early Netherlandish painter.According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven , where he was city painter from 1468....
  • Robert Campin
    Robert Campin

    Robert Campin , now usually identified with the artist known as the Master of Fl?malle, is usually considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting....
     (c.1380-1444)
  • Petrus Christus
    Petrus Christus

    Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444....
     (1410/1420-1472)
  • Jacques Daret
    Jacques Daret

    Jacques Daret was an Early Netherlandish painting painter born in Tournai , where he would spend much of his life. Daret spent 15 years as a pupil in the studio of Robert Campin, alongside Rogier or Rogelet de le Pasture , and afterwards became a master in his own right....
  • Gerard David
    Gerard David

    Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color....
     (c.1455–1523)
  • Hubert van Eyck
    Hubert van Eyck

    Hubert van Eyck was a Flemings Painting and older brother of Jan van Eyck.The date of his birth and the records of his progress are lost amidst the ruins of the earlier civilization of the valley of the Meuse River....
     (1366?-1426)
  • Jan van Eyck
    Jan van Eyck

    Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painting active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
     (1385?-1440?)
  • Geertgen tot Sint Jans
    Geertgen tot Sint Jans

    Geertgen tot Sint Jans , also known as Gerrit Gerritsz, Geertgen van Haarlem or Gerrit van Haarlem, was an Early Netherlandish painting from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire....
  • Hugo van der Goes
    Hugo van der Goes

    Hugo van der Goes was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and Gerard David, one of the most important of the Early Netherlandish Painting....
  • Adriaen Isenbrant
    Adriaen Isenbrant

    Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adrien, Isenbrant, Ysenbrant, Ysenbrandt or Hysebrant , was a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter, who from documentary evidence was clearly a significant artist of his period, but to whom no specific works can be clearly documented....
     (c.1490-1551)
  • Limbourg brothers
    Limbourg brothers

    The Limbourg brothers, or in Dutch Gebroeders van Limburg , were famous Dutch Renaissance miniature painters from the city of Nijmegen. They were active in the early 15th century in France and Burgundy, working in the style known as International Gothic....
  • Quentin Matsys
    Quentin Matsys

    Quentin Matsys was a painter in the Flemish tradition and a founder of the Antwerp school. He was born at Leuven, where he was trained as an ironsmith....
     (1466-1530)
  • Hans Memling
    Hans Memling

    Hans Memling was an Early Netherlandish painting, born in Seligenstadt/Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation....
     (c.1430-1494)
  • Joachim Patinir
    Joachim Patinir

    Joachim Patinir, also called de Patinier and de Patiner , was a Flanders Northern Renaissance History painting and Landscape painting Painting from the area of modern Wallonia....
  • Roger van der Weyden
    Roger van der Weyden

    Rogier van der Weyden, also known as Rogier de le Pasture is, with Jan van Eyck, considered one of the greatest exponents of the school of Early Netherlandish painting....
     (Rogier de la Pasture)
Eyck

German artists

  • Albrecht Altdorfer
    Albrecht Altdorfer

    Albrecht Altdorfer was a German Painting, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht D?rer....
     (c.1480-1538)
  • Hans Baldung
    Hans Baldung

    Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Gr?n . Germany Renaissance artist as Painting and printmaker in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht D?rer....
     (c.1480-1545), Alsatian
    Alsatian

    Alsatian can refer to:* A person from the Alsace region ** List of Alsatians and Lotharingians** a speaker of the Alsatian language* A term for the German Shepherd Dog which was invented during World War I, using Alsatian as a euphemism for Germans....
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder
    Lucas Cranach the Elder

    Lucas Cranach the Elder was a Germany Painting and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father....
     (1472-1553)
  • Lucas Cranach the Younger
    Lucas Cranach the Younger

    Lucas Cranach the Younger was a Germany Renaissance artist, known for his woodcuts and paintings.He was a son of Lucas Cranach the Elder who began his career as an apprentice...
     (1515-1586)
  • Albrecht Dürer
    Albrecht Dürer

    'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
     (1471-1528)
  • Matthias Grünewald
    Matthias Grünewald

    Matthias Gr?newald or "Mathis" , "Gothart" or "Neithardt" , , was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century....
     (c.1470-1528)
  • Hans Holbein the Elder
    Hans Holbein the Elder

    Hans Holbein was a Germany Painting.He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic art style....
     (c.1460-1524)
  • Hans Holbein the Younger
    Hans Holbein the Younger

    Hans Holbein the Younger was a Germans artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century....
     (c.1497–1543)
  • Ambrosius Holbein
    Ambrosius Holbein

    Ambrosius Holbein was a Germany and Switzerland artist in painting, drawing and printmaking.He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger and like his brother was born in Augsburg , a center of art, culture and trade at that time....
     (1494-1519)


French artists

  • Jean Fouquet
    Jean Fouquet

    Jean Fouquet or Jehan Fouquet was the most important France Painting of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and Illuminated manuscript, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature....
  • Jean Clouet
    Jean Clouet

    Jean Clouet was a miniaturist and Painting who worked in France during the French Renaissance. He was the father of Fran?ois Clouet....
  • Francois Clouet
    François Clouet

    File:Dame_au_bain_Francois_Clouet_end_of_16th_century.jpgFran?ois Clouet son of Jean Clouet, was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family....
  • Barthélemy d'Eyck
    Barthélemy d'Eyck

    Barth?lemy d'Eyck, van Eyck or d' Eyck , ; was an Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France and probably in Duchy of Burgundy as a painter and manuscript illuminator....
     (Born Where?)
  • Nicolas Froment
    Nicolas Froment

    Nicolas Froment was a French painter.See also*Early Renaissance painting...
  • Jean Hey (formerly known as the Master of Moulins)
  • Simon Marmion
    Simon Marmion

    Simon Marmion was a French, or Burgundian, painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy....
  • Enguerrand Quarton
    Enguerrand Quarton

    Enguerrand Quarton or Charonton was a France painting and illuminated manuscript whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting....


Spanish Artists


  • Bartolomé Bermejo
    Bartolomé Bermejo

    Bartolom? Bermejo was a Spain painter who adopted Seventeen Provinces painting techniques and conventions. Bermejo, whose real name was Bartolom? de C?rdenas, was first documented in a receipt issued in Valencia, Spain in 1468 when a patron, Antonio Juan, commissioned him to paint the Retable of Saint Michael ....
  • Ayne Bru
    Ayne Bru

    Ayne Bru was a 16th century Renaissance painter of Germans origin who worked in Catalonia. He may have proceeded from Lummen, in the Duchy of Brabant....
  • Juan de Flandes
    Juan de Flandes

    Juan de Flandes was an Early Netherlandish painter who was active in Spain from 1496 to 1519. Born around 1460 in Flanders , and evidently trained there, Juan de Flandes became an artist at the court of Isabella I of Castile in Spain painting accomplished portraits of her and members of her family in the Renaissance mode....
  • Jaume Huguet
  • Pablo de San Leocadio


Works

  • Ghent Altarpiece
    Ghent Altarpiece

    The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a very large and complex Early Netherlandish painting polyptych panel painting which was once in the Joost Vijdt chapel at Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, but was later moved for security reasons to the chapel of the cathedral....
    , by Hubert and Jan van Eyck
  • The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck
  • The Portinari Triptych
    Portinari Triptych

    The Portinari Triptych is an oil on wood triptych painting by the Flanders painter Hugo van der Goes representing the Adoration of the shepherds....
    , by Hugo van der Goes


Major collections

General Collections:
  • National Gallery, London
    National Gallery, London

    The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
  • Louvre
    Louvre

    The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
    , Paris
  • National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art

    The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
    , Washington
  • Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
    Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

    The Gem?ldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin, Germany. It holds one of the world's leading collections of European art from the 13th to the 18th centuries....
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Metropolitan Museum of Art

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA....
    , New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....


Netherlandish:
  • Musee Communal des Beaux-Arts, Bruges
    Bruges

    Bruges is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
    , Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  • Groeningemuseum
    Groeningemuseum

    The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum of Bruges, Belgium.It houses a comprehensive survey of six centuries of Flemish and Belgian painting, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers....
    , Bruges
    Bruges

    Bruges is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
    , Belgium
  • Museo del Prado
    Museo del Prado

    The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection....
    , Madrid
    Madrid

    Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
    , Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
     - for works of Hieronymus Bosch
    Hieronymus Bosch

    Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painting Painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives....


Italian:
  • Uffizi
    Uffizi

    The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
    , Florence
    Florence

    Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....


See also

  • Italian Renaissance painting
    Italian Renaissance painting

    Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period from the early 15th to mid 16th centuries occurring within the area of present-day Italy, which was that time divided into many political areas....
  • History of painting
    History of painting

    The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures, that represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity....
  • International Gothic
    International Gothic

    International Gothic is a phase of Gothic art which developed in Burgundy , Bohemia, France and northern Italy in the late 14th century and early 15th century....
  • Danube school
    Danube school

    The Danube School or Donau School is the name of a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria . Many also were innovative printmakers, usually in etching....
  • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
    Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

    The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, or Le Vite delle pi? eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even to...