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The Renaissance

Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself ...
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Looking at Italian Renaissance sculpture / edited by Sarah Blake McHam

The materials and techniques of Italian Renaissance sculpture / G.M. Helms -- The revival of antiquity in early Renaissance sculpture / H.W. Janson -- On the sources and meaning of the Renaissance ...
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A Once-in-a-Lifetime Donatello Show Argues That Sculpture, Not Painting, Was the Ultimate Renaissance Art Form

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...
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Florentine Renaissance sculpture

Renaissance and patronage at Florence -- Background to Renaissance sculpture -- From Gothic to Renaissance -- Donatello: maturity (c. 1420-1466) -- "Sweet style" at Florence: Luca della Robbia ; ...
The Conversation

Belief in touch as salvation was stronger than fear of contagion in the Italian Renaissance

In 1399, a crowd gathered in the Tuscan city of Pisa, even though people understood that a plague ravaging the area was contagious. Devotees travelled from town to town and carried a crucifix — a ...