| | Main exponents of Italian painting are: [[Duccio di Buoninsegna]], [[Giotto di Bondone]], [[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: [[Duccio di Buoninsegna]], [[Giotto di Bondone]], [[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]]. |
| | + | In the fifteenth century, artists learned to depict the visual world in a naturalistic manner... However, to view the art of the [[Renaissance]] as a mere conquest of naturalistic representation would overlook the complexity of the period. Carlo Crivelli painted sumptuous altarpieces in a boldly ornamental manner, and Cosimo Tura frequently departed from logical, naturalistic norms in favor of an energetic idiom with an eccentric elegance. [[Portraiture]] flourished during the Renaissance, and the Venetians, foremost among them Giorgione and Bellini, excelled in their depictions of pastoral [[landscape]]. [https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ita15.htm] |