Capture Florence And Its Painters: From Giotto To Leonardo Da Vinci Written By Andreas Schumacher Shown As Script

arts in fifteenthcentury Florence made numerous pioneering advances, Artists like Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci brought innovation to the themes, forms, and techniques of painting, opening up a new world of artistic expression.
These painters searched for the laws of harmony and beauty with new selfconfidence, devoting themselves to the study of antiquity and the practice of sketching from nature.
Driven by drawing and in competition with sculpture, they discovered utterly novel modes of representation through portraits, profane visual narratives, and poignant portrayals of church devotion.

            Drawing on prominent examples of painting, sculpture, and drawing, this lavishly illustrated volume presents the Alte Pinakotheks sparkling collection of Florentine art together with more than seventyfive works loaned from museums all over the world, offering multifaceted insights into the intellectual world

and working methods of Florentine artists during the Italian Renaissance.
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