Renaissance

The Pietà Rondanini is Michelangelo Buonarroti’s last work, and perhaps also his most intense and moving. An unfinished masterpiece that does not showcase the artist’s technical perfection, but rather his profound spirituality, human fragility, and the urgency to leave behind an artistic and inner testament. Today, it can be admired at the Castello Sforzesco in […]

DONATO BRAMANTE: ARCHITECT AND PAINTER  Donato Bramante (1444-1514) was one of the most important architects and painters of the Renaissance, and it seems that he studied in Urbino and was a collaborator of Piero della Francesca. Little is known about Bramante’s life and his early years, but for certain he established himself on the 16th-century artistic scene by bringing back to the […]

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA Piero della Francesca, one of the greatest 15th century Italian artists, a pioneer of the Italian Renaissance who had significant influence in the development of Italian painting. Piero della Francesca spending most of his life at the most important Courts in Central and Adriatic Italy. Among the wide […]

THE 16TH CENTURY: THE GREATEST MASTERS I often write about artists and artistic movements, taking for granted that everyone can associate with right historic period. But a reader left a comment on my Facebook profile which made me think. She lives in the USA e and is keen on fashion, but she shows little about […]

AMOR SACRO E AMOR PROFANO (SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE): TITIAN’S MYSTERIOUS PAINTING Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and profane love). Titian was one of the most important Renaissance artists, and his works entered the most prestigious private and public art collections in the world. Among them there was Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s art collection. In […]

TITIAN PAINTER: PHOTO GALLERY OF TITIAN’S PAINTINGS Titian painter. Titian is certainly my favourite Renaissance artist. He had a formidable talent, that he showed since he was a child, but above all he managed to pursue his career wisely. In this post you will find the images of his most important paintings. 

  The Madonna del parto (the Madonna of parturition) by Piero della Francesca The Madonna del parto (Madonna of the parturition) by Piero della Francesca. One of the most fascinating and mysterious masterpieces by Piero della Francesca is located in Monterchi, in province of Arezzo. It’s a fresco painted for a lateral altar in an […]

Alvise Vivarini Alvise Vivarini was born between 1442 and 1453 in Venice.He trained in the family workshop with his father Antonio Vivarini and his uncle Bartolomeo, specializing in altarpiece painting.

BRERA MADONNA by Piero della Francesca Brera Madonna. One of the most famous painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca is Montefeltro Altarpiece, also known as Brera Madonna or Brera Altarpiece. It’s a mysterious masterpiece and its exact dating, its meaning, and its original placing are still the subject of scholars’ investigations.

Did you know that in Milan there is a place made to amaze? The church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro is one of the most spectacular churches you can visit in the historic centre of Milan and holds a treasure: Bramante’s fake apse. Bramante’s fake apse in Milan’s Santa Maria presso San Satiro