4 articles tagged with "Botticelli"
Florence was the birthplace of the Renaissance. The Medici bank funded Brunelleschi's dome, Donatello's sculpture, and Botticelli's paintings. Linear perspective, humanism, and the idea of the artist as genius all started here. Here is why one city changed the course of Western art.
The Uffizi has the world's deepest collection of Italian Renaissance painting. Discover Botticelli's Venus, Leonardo's Annunciation, and how to navigate Florence's greatest museum.
Learn to decode the iconographic systems used in Christian, classical, and non-Western art. Discover how saints are identified by their attributes, how mythological scenes carry moral meaning, and why Botticelli's Primavera is a philosophical argument in paint.
Explore the Renaissance revolution in art, from Brunelleschi's perspective to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Learn how humanism, science, and patronage created history's greatest artistic flowering.
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