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The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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Commissioned by Cosimo de Medici, who wanted to place it in the gardens of his palace in Florence.
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Is located in Florence, Via Larga, Via Cavour now 3. Made by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo in 1444, commissioned by Cosimo de Medici
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Was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.
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The Birth of Venus is a painting in tempera on canvas of flax (172 × 278 cm) by Sandro Botticelli , dating from 1482 - 1485 or so and kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence .
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In 1495 the Italian Renaissance arrived in France, imported by King Charles VIII after his invasion of Italy.
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La obra fue encargada por el cardenal de san Dionisio Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas o de Villiers, benedictino embajador del monarca francés ante la Santa Sede, al que el autor conoció en Roma. El contrato entre el artista y el cliente se firmó el 26 de agosto de 1498, y en el que se estipulaba, además del pago de 450 ducados de oro, que habría de estar terminada antes de un año, y en efecto, dos días antes de cumplirse el plazo la obra maestra ya estaba terminada, cuando el cardenal había muerto u
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The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. Because of the nature of the hero that it represented, it soon came to symbolize the defense of
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The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman, Lisa del Giocondo, whose facial expression has been frequently described as enigmatic. The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 to repaint the vault, or ceiling, of the Chapel. It was originally painted as golden stars on a blue sky. The work was completed between 1508 and 2 November 1512.
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Architectural work of international importance, is considered one of the buildings is emblematic of the ' Renaissance architecture . Its construction began in 1508 and ended after one hundred years. Coming from Orvieto , the church is visible in the distance before entering the city. Its classical architecture is in contrast to that of the old town of medieval character.
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It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be completed.
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Many Italian artists came to Poland with Bona Sforza of Milan, when she married King Zygmunt I of Poland in 1518
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He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.
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In England, the Elizabethan era marked the beginning of the English Renaissance with the work of writers William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, John Milton, as well as great artists, architects (such as Inigo Jones who introduced Italianate architecture to England), and composers such as Thomas Tallis, John Taverner, and William Byrd.
