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6 unusual facts about Italian Renaissance


Blanche Lazzell

Lazzell extended her stay in France and attended lectures at the Louvre concerning Flemish paintings, Dutch art and the Italian Renaissance.

Bonaventura Genelli

He seemed to hark back to the land of his fathers and endeavour to revive the traditions of the Italian Renaissance.

Central Bank of Argentina

Completed in 1876, the Italian Renaissance-inspired building initially housed the Mortgage Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires.

Elihu Vedder

Finally, he completed his studies in Italy - where he was strongly influenced not only by Italian Renaissance work but also by the modern Macchiaioli painters and the living Italian landscape.

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson

Dodson's artistic interests were broad, from the semi-classic French influence of her earlier works, such as La Danse, painted in 1867 but not exhibited until 1878, to the schools of the Italian Renaissance (inspired by her visits to Spain and Italy), followed by a period of realistic portraiture, including one of her more famous works, The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, painted in 1883.

Wenzel Jamnitzer

He made vases and jewelry boxes with great skill, in a style based on that of the Italian Renaissance.


Aline Chassériau

Influences for this refined technique of the portrait include Ingres, with whom Chassériau had recently studied, and Italian Renaissance masters Raphael and Bronzino.

Dayton Art Institute

The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy.

Fontana delle Tartarughe

The Fontane delle Tartarughe (The Turtle Fountain) is a fountain of the late Italian Renaissance, located in the Piazza Mattei, in the Sant'Angelo district of Rome, Italy.

Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr.

Berlenbach Jr. became involved in designing Roman Catholic churches, specializing in the Romanesque style although also created designs influenced by Italian Renaissance later on.

Lynn Thorndike

Counter to Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt who argued that the Italian Renaissance was a separate phase, Thorndike believed that most of the political, social, moral and religious phenomena which are commonly defined as Renaissance seemed to be almost equally characteristic of Italy at any time from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.

Tree of virtues and tree of vices

In the Italian Renaissance, Pietro Bembo developed a similar flow-chart-like "moral schema" of sins punished in Dante's Inferno and Purgatory.

X-chair

The use of the name Savonarola chair comes from a nineteenth-century trade term evoking Girolamo Savonarola, is a folding armchair of the type standardized during the Italian Renaissance.


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Andrea Pazienza

He later participated to such editorial experiences as Cannibale, Il Male and Frigidaire, where he created hundreds of comics with his unique and unmatched style, grown out of American underground comics (as represented by visionaries like Rick Griffin and Victor Moscoso), Italian Renaissance art and Walt Disney comics.

Bouvier Beale

Beale and his family resided in the historic 1906 Italian Renaissance-styled home Cedarcroft in Glen Cove on Long Island, and in 1971, built their summer home in Bridgehampton.

Charles de Steuben

They preferred the shadowy softness and gentle color gradations of Italian Renaissance painters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Antonio da Correggio, whose works they studied intensively.

Douai Abbey

Because of its unique and marvellous acoustics, during March 1990, Douai Abbey was used as a location for British male vocal septet The Hilliard Ensemble´s recording of Italian renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo´s liturgic responsory “Tenebrae”.

Edward Walters

Free Trade Hall (1855), in Peter Street, Italian Renaissance Revival style.

Gad Frederik Clement

After an early encounter with the French Symbolists, he took an interest in the Italian Renaissance period before turning to the more relaxed style of Naturalism in Skagen and Civita d'Antino.

Godfrey of Cambrai

He was popular, under his own name and erroneously under Martial's, in the Italian Renaissance.

James Hankins

Since 1998 he has been General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, which he founded together with Walter Kaiser, Director of the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

La Araucana

La Araucana’s successes—and weaknesses—as a poem stem from the uneasy coexistence of characters and situations drawn from Classical sources (primarily Virgil and Lucan, both translated into Spanish in the 16th century) and Italian Renaissance poets (Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso) with material derived from the actions of contemporary Spaniards and Araucanians.

Lorenzetto

Lorenzo Lotti, also known as Lorenzetto, (1490–1541), born Lorenzo di Lodovico di Guglielmo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect in the circle of Raphael.

Madonna with Child and Saints

Madonna with Child and Saints is the title of several works by Italian Renaissance artist Luca Signorelli.

Malchiostro Annunciation

Malchiostro Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, executed around 1520, and housed in the Cathedral of Treviso, northern Italy.

Marco Sgarbi

He was Frances A. Yates Short-Term Research fellow at the Warburg Institute, research fellow at the Università di Verona, Fritz Thyssen fellow at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, research fellow at the Accademia dei LinceiBritish Academy, and Jean-François Malle-Harvard I Tatti Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Pastiglia

In 2002, the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Miami held an exhibition of Pastiglia Boxes: Hidden Treasures of the Italian Renaissance from the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'arte antica in Rome, and an 80 page exhibition catalogue was published in English and Italian.

Penni

Gianfrancesco Penni, Italian Renaissance artist, or his brothers Luca and Bartolomeo

People's Houses

Notably these were built according to neo-Gothic style, as promoted by Augustus Pugin and John Ruskin: Pugin believed the harmonious style of the architecture could influence morality, while Ruskin in his book The Stones of Venice examined the architecture of the Italian Renaissance mercantile republics, believing it expressed the spirit of freedom.

Pyke Koch

He was most impressed with the painters of the Italian Renaissance Piero della Francesca, Masaccio and Mantegna.

Robert Tavernor

He founded the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA) at the University of Bath, and with Vaughan Hart, its current Director, established a focus on Classical and Italian Renaissance architectural treatises; between them they have translated and written about the leading classical architectural theorists – including, Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio, and Palladio.

Salaì

In Paul McAuley's novel Pasquale's Angel set in an alternate Italian Renaissance, Salai is the main antagonist.

Sant'Apollonia

The building is now used as an art museum that houses the The Last Supper fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea del Castagno.

Stefano di Giovanni

Bernard Berenson bequeathed many of Sassetta's painting from his Florence Villa to Harvard University, in what became the Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.

The Full Monteverdi

The Full Monteverdi is a 2007 British film written and directed by John La Bouchardière and based on his live production of the same name, itself based on Claudio Monteverdi's fourth book of madrigals (1603) which, in turn, is a collection of settings of poems by such Italian renaissance poets as Giovanni Battista Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and Torquato Tasso.

The I Tatti Renaissance Library

The I Tatti Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Harvard University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf (verso), and an English translation on the facing page (recto).

Villa I Tatti

Between 1907 and 1915 the seventeenth-century farmhouse became a Renaissance-style villa under the direction of the English architect and writer Geoffrey Scott, while a formal garden in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance style was laid out by the English landscape architect Cecil Pinsent.

Under the editorship of James Hankins of Harvard, Harvard University Press also publishes the I Tatti Renaissance Library, which is modeled on the Loeb Classical Library and aims to publish the major literary, historical, philosophical and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin with modern English translation on facing pages.

William Rutherford Mead

In 1902, King Victor Emmanuel conferred on Mead the decoration of Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy for his pioneer work in introducing the Roman and Italian Renaissance architectural style in America.