| | Main exponents of Italian painting are: [[Giotto di Bondone]], [[Duccio di Buoninsegna]], [[Fra Angelico]], [[Piero della Francesca]], [[Sandro Botticelli]], [[Pietro Perugino]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Vittore Carpaccio]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Tiziano Vicellio]], [[Raphael]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Annibale Carracci]], [[Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio]], [[Domenico Zampieri]], [[Carlino Dolci]], [[Antonio Canaletto]] and [[Amedeo Modigliani]]. | | Main exponents of Italian painting are: [[Giotto di Bondone]], [[Duccio di Buoninsegna]], [[Fra Angelico]], [[Piero della Francesca]], [[Sandro Botticelli]], [[Pietro Perugino]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Vittore Carpaccio]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Tiziano Vicellio]], [[Raphael]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Annibale Carracci]], [[Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio]], [[Domenico Zampieri]], [[Carlino Dolci]], [[Antonio Canaletto]] and [[Amedeo Modigliani]]. |
| | + | The leading lights of the 18th cent. came from Venice. Among them were the brilliant exponent of the rococo style, Tiepolo; the architectural painters Guardi, Canaletto, Piazzetta, and Bellotto. Fantastic landscape was brought into vogue in the works of Castiglione and Magnasco, both of whom worked in Naples. [http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Ital-art] |
| | During the 19th century Italian artists responded to movements such as [[Romanticism]] and [[Realism]], but with little originality... The main artists were Giovanni Fattori (1825–1908), Silvestro Lega (1826–1895), and Telemaco Signorini (1835–1901), main exponents of a group known as ''Macchiaioli'' (''patchers''). [http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016565.html] | | During the 19th century Italian artists responded to movements such as [[Romanticism]] and [[Realism]], but with little originality... The main artists were Giovanni Fattori (1825–1908), Silvestro Lega (1826–1895), and Telemaco Signorini (1835–1901), main exponents of a group known as ''Macchiaioli'' (''patchers''). [http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016565.html] |
| − | The leading lights of the 18th cent. came from Venice. Among them were the brilliant exponent of the rococo style, Tiepolo; the architectural painters Guardi, Canaletto, Piazzetta, and Bellotto. Fantastic landscape was brought into vogue in the works of Castiglione and Magnasco, both of whom worked in Naples. [http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Ital-art]
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| | In the 20th century, Lucio Fontana, founded the ''Spazialismo'' (style in which matter should be transformed into energy in order to invade space in a dynamic form), and Giorgio de Chirico founded the ''scuola metafisica art movement'', which profoundly influenced the [[surrealism|surrealists]]. | | In the 20th century, Lucio Fontana, founded the ''Spazialismo'' (style in which matter should be transformed into energy in order to invade space in a dynamic form), and Giorgio de Chirico founded the ''scuola metafisica art movement'', which profoundly influenced the [[surrealism|surrealists]]. |