The Renaissance, History of ideas (Video)
The Renaissance is a historical period with several lessons to teach us about how to improve our world today. Its study should not only be for its importance, but for its relevance to our future.
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Sandro Botticelli, Representative of the Golden Age of the Early Italian Renaissance
Sandro Botticelli, (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a “golden age”, a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous […]
Piero di Cosimo, Florentine Painter of Classical Mythology
Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 1521), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The son of a goldsmith, Piero was born in Florence and apprenticed under the artist Cosimo Rosseli, from whom he derived his popular name and whom he assisted in the painting of the Sistine Chapel in […]
