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THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Early features of the Renaissance appear
      - Artist: Giotto
      - 14th century, the end of Gothic art
    - - Innovations appear; harmony and proportion
      - Most important architects; Brunelleschi and Alberti
      - 15th century
      - The most important sculptors: Ghiberti and Donatello
      - The most important painters: Masaccio, Fra Angelico and Botticeli
    - - Rome became the artistic centre
      - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Sanzio
      - 16th century
      - New style was developed and spread throughout Europe
      - Giorgione and Titian
    - - Harmony and proportion were abandoned
      - Most importants painters; Florentines Bronzino and Pontorno and the Venetians Tintoretto and Veronese
      - Beginning in 1530
      - Most important sculptors; Cellini and Giambologna
- - - - Florence Cathedral (by Brunelleschi)
      - Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome (by Michelangelo)
    - - With classical capitals and entablatures
      - Horizontal parts above the columns
    - - Church of San Lorenzo in Florence (by Brunelleschi)
    - - Façade of the Basilica Santa Maria Novella
    - - Circular; tempietto di San Pientro (by Bramante)
      - Square; Villa La Rotonda (by Andrea Palladio)
      - Greek cross; Saint Peter's Basilica (by Bramante)
- - - - In Florence
      - Most notables:
        
        Palazzo Pitti (Brunelleschi)
        
        Palazzo Medici (Michelozzo di Bartolomeo)
        
        Plazzo Rucellai (Leon Batista Alberti)
    - - Piazza de Campidoglio by Michelangelo
    - - Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence, by Brunelleschi
    - - Teatro Olimpico, Venice, by Andrea Palladio
    - - Laurentian Library, Florence, by Michelangelo
    - - Villa La Rotonda by Andrea Palladio
  - - - Didn't use many decorative features
    - - Diaphanous spaces, which can be seen in public squares
    - - The building are symmetrical and the different parts are evenly distributed
      - Weren't as tall as othic buildings in order to maintain harmony between th horizontal and vertical elements
- - - - Idealism and serenity
        
        Tried to reflect reality
        
        Can be seen in the perfect faces and bodies depicted
        
        Botticelli and Raphael Sanzio, famous for their Madonnas, or virgins, with angelical faces
        
        Leonardi da Vinci, Mona Lisa
        
        Michelangelo, he protayed intense emotions
      - The human body
        
        Interested in the anatomy
        
        Revived the nude as a subject
        
        Paintings in the Sistine Chapel and statue of David, by Michelangelo
        
        Venuses by Giorgione and Titian
      - The search for balance and proportion
        
        Studied the elements of a scene and arraged them symmetrically
        
        Used a pyramidal composition
        
        Figures were portrayed in proportion
        
        Michelangelo broke with this convention by introducing imbalance in his works
  - - - More expensive materials like marble were used more frequently
      - Reliefs were replaced by freestanding sculptures
      - Could be contemplated from all the angles
    - - Ancient techniques
        
        Frescoes on walls
        
        Tempera on wooden panels
      - New oil technique was adopted
      - Used to paint on cloth canvasses
  - - - Addition to themes related to Christianity, mythological themes were adopted from Classical Antiquity.
      - More portraits were painted due to the increase in demand from nobles, clergy and the upper bourgeoisie
      - Nature, landscapes and buildings substituted the gold backgrounds of the Gothic artists and became the defining feature of all compositions