The Medici family dominated Florentine political life
commissioning works from Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello and
Fra Angelico. Cosimo de Medici founded the Medici collection in
the Laurentian Library.
The Renaissance was a rebirth of humanism, beginning in Italy
and spreading throughout northern Europe.
Italy, late 13th and 14th centuries
Dante
Alighieri - 1265-1321
Petrarch - 1304-1374
Giovanni Boccaccio - 1312-1353
Florence 15th
century Petrarch
- 1304-1374
Giovanni Boccaccio - 1312-1353
Marsilio Ficino - 1433-1499
Lorenzo de Medici - 1449-1492
Angelo Poliziano - 1454-1494
Pico della Mirandola - 1463-1494
Niccolo Machiavelli - 1469-1527
Baldassare Castiglione - 1478-1529
Rome Late 15th
& early 16th centuries Ludovico
Ariosto - 1474-1533
Baldassare Castiglione - 1478-1529
Martin Luther - 1483-1531
Giorgio Vasari - 1511-1574
Torquato Tasso - 1544-1595
Giordano Bruno - 1548-1600
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The Creation of Adam Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel was built at the end of the 15th century by
Giovanni Dolci. Its walls are frescoed with 12 paintings by Perugino,
Pinturicchio, Botticelli, Signorelli and Ghirlandaio, and the
greatest masterpiece being the frescoes of the vaults painted
by Michelangelo for Pope Julius 11 between 1508 and 1512. The
restoration of the ceiling between 1985 and 1989 revealed pure
color, which caused doubts and incredulity which is still discussed.
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