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Albrecht DURER
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
is the most important representative of the Northern Renaissance. Particularly amazing are his engravings, among them Melencolia I, which seem like a scrying stone for alternative interpretations. Dürer’s knowledge of natural sciences offers different keys of reading...
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Jan VAN EYCK
Jan Van Eyck (c. 1395 – c. 1441) is one of the best Flemish painters of the 15th century. His perfected oil technique was widely praised and his influences can be traced also in Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings. The analysis of Van Eyck's work suggest that he was also a true humanist....
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Leon Battista ALBERTI
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
could be seen as the model for the Renaissance ideal of Uomo Universale. Alberti was an architect, but at the same time also a philosopher, poet, linguist, writer, cryptographer, a true Renaissance polymath...
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Leonardo DA VINCI
What makes Leonardo da Vinci (1471-1528) so unique is his wide range of research of different subjects while providing unseen solutions to hardly imaginable problems. Read about an alternative interpretation of his famous artworks like Mona Lisa or Vitruvian Man...
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Sandro BOTTICELLI
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) is another important representative of the Medicean circle. It is suspected that his works are heavyly influenced by Ficino's Neoplatonic philosophy. Read about a new inetrpretation of his major compositions like the Birth of Venus or La Primavera...
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ADORATION OF THE MAGI (Attitude towards the viewer in the Renaissance paintings)
Explanation of the gradual mastering and variations of the Renaissance perspective illusionist model through various representations of the Adoration of the magi, and most of all, the most important function of the painting - the attitude towards its viewer. The biblical meaning of the Adoration of ...
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FROM BREAST TO BEARD (story of Renaissance)
The Renaissance cabinet of curiosities consists of bizarre images and unexpected motifs from real and imaginary life that displays, by means of twisted reality, the real spirit, mind and body of the Renaissance man, who is split between medieval superstition and the birth of a new Subject. Many of t...
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