Italy - a wonderful blessed land that gaveworld a huge gallery of priceless works of art. Italian artists are great masters of painting and sculpture, recognized throughout the world. No country can compare with Italy in the number of famous painters. Why is it so - it is beyond our ability to understand this! But we can once again recall the names of the great masters, the era in which they lived, and the amazing paintings that came out into the world from under their brush. So, let's start a virtual tour of the beautiful world and look into Italy from the Renaissance.
The term "Renaissance" (Renaissance) refers toto a time interval from the XIV to the XVI century. Historical documents show that until this time Europe was immersed in religious obscurantism and ignorance, which, accordingly, did not allow art to develop. But now the time has come, the secular life began to become a bit lively, which gave impetus to the development of science and culture, the era of the Proto-Renaissance came. The world was shown by the artists of the Italian Renaissance.
In Italy, XIV century, there are painters, innovators,who began to look for new creative techniques (Giotto di Bondone, Cimabue, Niccolo Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Simone Martine). Their work became the forerunner of the future birth of the titans of world art. The most eminent of these masters of painting, perhaps, is Giotto, who can be called a real reformer of Italian painting. His most famous painting is "Kiss of Judas".
Following Giotto came such painters asSandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Filippo Lippi, Giovani Bellini, Luca Sinioreli, Andrea Mantegna, Carlo Crivelli. All of them showed beautiful pictures to the world, which can be seen in many modern museums. All of them are Italian great artists of the early Renaissance, and one can speak about the creativity of each of them for a very long time. But within the framework of this article, we will touch only on the one whose name is most heard - the unsurpassed Sandro Botticelli.
Here are the names of his most famous paintings: "Birth of Venus", "Spring", "Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci", "Portrait of Giuliano Medici", "Venus and Mars", "Madonna Magnificat". This master lived and worked in Florence from 1446 to 1510. Botticelli was a court painter of the Medici family, this is the reason for the fact that his creative heritage abounds not only in paintings on religious subjects (such in his work was a lot), but also many examples of secular painting.
The Epoch of High Renaissance - the end of the XV and the beginningXVI century - a time when they created their masterpieces such Italian artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, Titian, Giorgione ... What names, what geniuses!
Especially impressive is the legacy of the great trinity -Michelangelo, Raphael and da Vinci. Their paintings are kept in the best museums in the world, their creative heritage is delighted and thrills. Probably, in a civilized modern world there is no such person who does not know what the "Portrait of Mrs. Lisa Giocondo" looks like by the hands of the great Leonardo, the "Sistine Madonna" by Raphael or the beautiful marble statue of David created by the hands of the violent Michelangelo.
Later, the Renaissance (mid-16th century) gavethe world has many beautiful painters and sculptors. Here are their names and a short list of the most famous works: Benvenuto Cellini (statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa Gorgon), Paolo Veronese (paintings "Triumph of Venus, Ariadne and Bacchus," Mars and Venus ", etc.), Tintoretto (paintings" Christ before the Pilate, "The Miracle of St. Mark", etc.), Andrea Palladio-architect (Villa Rotonda), Parmigianino ("Madonna and Child in His Hands"), Jacopo Pontormo ("Portrait of a Lady with a Basket for Yarn"). And although all these Italian artists worked during the Renaissance sunset, their works were included in the gold fund of world art.
The Renaissance became unique and unrepeatableperiod in the life of mankind. From now on, no one will ever be able to unravel the secrets of the mastery of those great Italians, or at least come to their understanding of the beauty and harmony of the world and the ability to transfer perfection to canvas with the help of paints.
After the end of the Renaissance, the solarItaly continued to give talented masters of art to humanity. It is impossible not to mention the names of such famous creators as the brothers Caracci - Agostino and Annibale (end of the XVI century), Caravaggio (XVII century) or Nicolas Poussin, who lived in Italy in the 17th century.
And in our days, creative life does not subsideThe Apennine peninsula, however, Italian contemporary artists still do not reach the level of skill and fame that their genius predecessors had. But, as you know, maybe the Renaissance is waiting for us again, and then Italy will be able to show the world new titans of art.
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