History
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing. As the first Italian art historian, he initiated the genre of an encyclopedia of artistic biographies that continues today. Vasari was the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print, though an awareness of the ongoing "rebirth" in the arts had been in the air from the time of Alberti.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. One of the most famous Leonardo’s wok is Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Creation of Adam.
The Italian Renaissance and Humanism
The word “Renaissance” means “re-birth”. This re-birth refers to the “re-birth” of the spirit of classical antiquity and the cultural forms and styles of ancient Greece and Rome. The revival of ancient cultural forms was paired with the emergence of distinctly modern attitudes. The movement of “rebirth” began in Italy during the fourteenth century. France, Germany, England, and Spain followed the same path in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By the time of the Plague epidemic, the Feudal states of Europe had been absorbed by the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the German Emperor. All feudal kings and lords had promised or pledged allegiance to the Holy Roman Emperor. But the Holy Roman Empire was constantly fighting with the Papal State. These wars had
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. One of the most famous Leonardo’s wok is Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Creation of Adam.
The Italian Renaissance and Humanism
The word “Renaissance” means “re-birth”. This re-birth refers to the “re-birth” of the spirit of classical antiquity and the cultural forms and styles of ancient Greece and Rome. The revival of ancient cultural forms was paired with the emergence of distinctly modern attitudes. The movement of “rebirth” began in Italy during the fourteenth century. France, Germany, England, and Spain followed the same path in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By the time of the Plague epidemic, the Feudal states of Europe had been absorbed by the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the German Emperor. All feudal kings and lords had promised or pledged allegiance to the Holy Roman Emperor. But the Holy Roman Empire was constantly fighting with the Papal State. These wars had