PINTURARENACENTISTA ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION, MAIN FEATURES AND AUTHORS
Space-time situation
Between the XV and XVI.
Historical Context
Renaissance painting covers the period of the history of European art from medieval art and baroque art. The painting of this period is related to the revival of classical antiquity, the impact of humanism on artists and their patrons, new techniques and artistic sensibilities and, in general, the transition between the medieval and early modern age.
Conditioning elements
Within the Italian Renaissance can be divided into two phases or periods.
The fifteenth century being originally Quattrocento Florence cradle of Renaissance painting.
The sixteenth century Cinquecento this being called the High Renaissance where it has its greatest splendor in Rome.
General Characteristics
In the Renaissance altarpiece disappears, the painting is based on seniority, evocation of the old, mastery of perspective, do not lose the great fresco mural painting Gothic painting itself.
The great masters of the fifteenth century of exceptional skills cultivated through mid-century, replacing the technique of tempera colors dissolved in water with egg or glue technique for oil painting by Flemish influence.
In easel painting is still using the table as technical support and tempera.
Harmonious development of the human form naked or dressed in rest or in motion latter perfectly.
Idealized beauty of the naked.
The issue remains important religious or mythological themes also cultivated laymen.
Treatment of painted architectural setting and landscape.
In the Quattrocento the main features are the study of the human figure representation of space and light, the landscape is becoming more important by the Flemish influence.
Florentine School (Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Fra Fillipo, French stone, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Filippi Lippi. Umbrian school, school Perugino Mantegna Padua. Venetian school with the brothers bellini.
In the cinquecento the art center will be blunt and is characterized by the simplification of work, elimination of secondary scenes, formal perfection.
At this stage there are three great artists. Leonardo da vinci man multifaceted archetypal Renaissance man creates Leonardesque esfumato and smile, Rafael highlights his work for its beauty and formal perfection, and sculptor Michelangelo painting is essentially an expression of relief.

Renaissance architecture in Florence and Rome.
Space-time situation
Between the fifteenth (Quattrocento) to XVI (Cinquecento).
General characteristics.
There are actually two phases or periods in the Italian Renaissance. Its origin is Quattrocento Florence. Florentine architects begin the new movement, this new style is not a collection of the classical Greco-Latin models, but the direct view that artists have for these models inspire them.
The Medici patrons to serve as the main artists of the moment.
The architecture follows the tradition of the classical orders preferably Corinthian decorative richness, smooth shaft column or pillar replaces balustered uses Gothic pilasters, arch, and a Latin cross plan Greek basilica covers most used central are the barrel-vaulted and coffered wooden deck with the biggest contribution is the use of the dome.
The main architects are Brunelesqui (Hospital of the Innocents) and Alberti (Palazzo Rucellai).
Cinquecento (High Renaissance) of Roman origin, distinguished by a mass effect and the monumentality of its construction lines leaving the rich decoration of the previous century. The potatoes are great patrons of the period.
The great artists of this period are Bramante (Santa Maria de la Gracia), Michelangelo (San Pedro Roma) and Barozzi (Church of the Gesu).