An artist who played a decisive role in the development of Italian painting in his century and beyond (his works were studied and copied by masters of the stature of Masaccio and Michelangelo), Giotto was probably born in Florence c . 1265.[1] According to the earlier sources, he was a disciple of Cimabue (c. 1240 – 1302).
of the basilica of San Francesco at Assisi, reveal the strong influence of the Roman
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Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio) and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the ancient Roman
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Celebrated poet Teri Cross Davis and curator of Italian and Spanish paintings Gretchen Hirschauer discuss the humanity and emotions revealed in El Greco’s depiction of the legend of Laocoön.
NARRATOR: The Roman writer Virgil told how the Greeks hid an elite military unit
During the 1960s and 1970s the fate and future of painting was a hotly contested subject on the New York art scene. It is especially telling, then, that Alfred Jensen’s paintings were acclaimed during this period by two of the very artists—Donald Judd and Allan Kaprow—who were otherwise leading the assault on painting in favor of new art forms such as minimal sculpture and assemblage.
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions across reverse of each of twelve canvases, with Roman
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Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
Subsequently, Domenichino executed major fresco cycles of his own in such Roman churches
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Queen Zenobia of Palmyra (in Syria) led her soldiers to challenge the Roman Empire
Photographer Sam Youkilis and curator and head of Italian and Spanish paintings Eve Straussman-Pflanzer explore Canaletto’s monumental depiction of 18th-century Venice and how it compares to the present day.
They would often collect works of art – older works of art including Greek and Roman
