"Renaissance" is a French word meaning "rebirth" (Britannica 1). ... The word "renaissance" originally referred to the revival of the values and artistic styles of classical antiquity during that period, especially in Italy (Beckett, 1994, 36). ... Vasari claimed "art had been reborn in Italy in about 1250 and had progressed through "childhood" and "youth" to its 16th century maturity" (Britannica 7). ... The technique of realism, where people are portrayed realistically, is a renaissance revelation that can be seen in many Renaissance artists" work. ... "He is considered one of the most ...

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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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The Renaissance period occurred in Northern Europe and Italy in the 1500s and 1600s. Renaissance means "rebirth." ... Some artists of the late Renaissance painted their subjects with distorted and elongated bodies. ... Michelangelo and Raphel are two more of the many artists in this period that made great contributions to art during the Renaissance. ...

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Fifteenth century Italian artists saw the pieces of the van Eyck brothers and wanted to imitate the techniques they used. Although oil paints originated in the Netherlands, Giovanni Bellini exploited the advantages and techniques of oil paints in Italy. ... Bellini was considered the utmost painter during the Renaissance, who influenced later artists such as Titian and Tintoretto. ...

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Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, as Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon. Three years after Kahlo's birth the Mexican Revolution began. This was a major event in Mexican history as well as an influence on much of Kahlo's art. She was a surrealist painter which means that she ...

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