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THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The abundance of Roman remains on the Italian peninsula and the discovery of new archaeological remains.
      - The arrival in Italy of Greek scholars, who had fled Constantinople after its conquest by the Turks, and brought classical works with them.
- - - - Brunelleschi
      - Alberti
    - - Ghiberthi
      - Donatello
    - - Fra Angelico
      - Botticelli
      - Masaccio
  - - - Michelangelo
      - Leonardo Da Vinci
      - Raphael Sanzio
  - - - Florentines
        
        Pontorno
        
        Bronzino
      - Venetians
        
        Tintoretto
        
        Veronese
    - - Cellini
      - Giabologna
- - - - such as those in the church of San Lorenzo in Florence
    - - an example is the façade of the Basilica Santa Maria Novella
    - - columns with classical capitals and entablatures
    - - the Tempietto di San Pietro, by Bramante, is a notable example of a circular plan
    - - the most notable examples are Florence Cathedral and Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
  - - - Squares
      - Hospitals
      - Town halls
      - Theatres
      - Urban places
      - Libraries
      - Rural villas
    - - Open
      - Proportion
      - Simplicity
- - - - They revived the nude as a subject, which had been abandoned in the Middle Ages
      - Examples
        
        Titian
        
        Giorgione
      - The Italian painters and sculptors were interested in the anatomy of the human body.
    - - They often used a pyramidal composition.
      - Once again, Michelangelo broke with the convention by introducing imbalance in his works.
      - Renaissance artists studied the elements of a scene and arranged them symmetrically
    - - At the same time, influenced by the ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato, they aimed to portray an ideal beauty
      - This idealism can be seen in the perfect faces and bodies depicted by artists like Botticelli and Raphael Sanzio
      - painters and sculptors tried to reflect reality
  - - - Reliefs were replaced by freestanding sculptures, which could be contemplated from all angles.
      - more expensive materials like marble were used more frequently
    - - such as frescoes on walls and tempera on wooden panels.
      - eventually the new oil technique was adopted and used to paint on cloth canvasses.
  - - - More portaits were painted due to the increase in demand from nobles, clergy and the upper bourgeoisie.
    - - Substituted the gold backgrounds of the Gothic artists and became the defining feature of all compositions.
    - - Mythological themes were adopted from Classical Antiquity.