The book, first published in 1550 and second in 1568, the much enlarged edition, had ben the crucial source for information about Italian Renaissance art and biographies of the artists. ... The renaissance proverb of "every painter paint himself" is reflected on his book. The artists have become stars of their very stories and of the Italian Renaissance art instead of being "work"ers. ... Hence, the book has double effect that, firstly, the lives of the artists are phased in a way which reflects the understandings of the renaissance time and secondly, phases of renaissance are mentioned paral...

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A change came from Italy in the mid 1400s when Masaccio burst onto the scene embodying all the qualities that make the Renaissance the rebirth and rediscovery of Greco-Roman art and literature. ... As time passed this artistic movement spread across Italy to Venice and Rome, and by the Sixteenth century the rest of Europe. ... Directly following this period is an interval that concluded the inspired majesty known as The Renaissance, this period is called The Late Renaissance. ... Spumato shading made it appear as if the lighter parts of the painting were coming forth from the shadows, thus its...

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Although Bruegel painted "The Battle between Carnival and Lent" in 1559, in the latter period of the Northern Renaissance, the painting does not wholly embody aspects of Renaissance work. ... Pieter Bruegel was one of the most gifted yet mysterious painters of the Northern Renaissance, for very little is known about his life. ... Like so many of his fellow Northern artists he studied in Italy for several years, where he worked under various artists, including Guilio Cluvio, a miniaturist. ... Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bruegel refused to adopt the idealized and more secular figures ...

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Duccio di Buoninsegna's tempera and gold leaf painting, Life of Jesus, comprised of 14 panels on the back of the Maestà Altarpiece, in Seina, Italy, 1308-14, is a good representation of a religious message painted with tempera. ... This use of classic Christian Biblical enactments, tied into the modern Belgium home (modern in the 15th century) and cityscape is a great representation of true Renaissance art – tying the old in with the new. ... For example, in Giotto's Lamentation in the Arena Chapel in Pauda Italy, circa 1305, there is a great deal of depth and shadow in the c...

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