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God Appearing to St. Mary Magdalena and St. Catherine of Siena, circa 1508...

God Appearing to St. Mary Magdalena and St. Catherine of Siena, circa 1508 Giclee Print Bartolommeo, Fra 18 in. x 24 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted

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French scientists crack secrets of Mona Lisa

The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of Lisa “Mona”. French researchers studied seven Louvre Museum Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including...

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Renaissance Art: Il Redentore by Leonardo Da Vinci

Il Redentore Giclee Print , Leonardo da Vinci 40 in. x 49.5 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted

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The Unity of Religion and Art

Art and religion belong together by identities of Origin, Subject Matter, and Inner Experience. Religion and art were one and the same thing before either of them became consciously regarded as a...

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Artist and Mystic Experience

Now these are precisely the points of view which the teacher of religion also is constantly seeking to induce. He too calls people from their pursuits and practical ambitions to enjoy the communions of...

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Leda and the Swan Giclee Print

Leda and the Swan Giclee Print , Leonardo da Vinci 9 in. x 12 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted leonardo da vinci, lena and the swan, fine art posters, renaissance art, mythology art,...

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Michelangelo, Fiorentine and Renaissance Art

For Michelangelo was a Florentine, and many of the major episodes of his life took place in the very buildings and squares. Nearly half of the statues made by Michelangelo now stand in Florence: at the...

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Michelangelo and Sistine Chapel Artworks

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco is both a masterpiece and the object of one of the fiercest-ever campaigns about morality and decency. The unveiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco in 1541...

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Michelangelo, Original Sin and the Banishment from the Garden of Eden

Michelangelo illustrates simultaneously Original Sin (Genesis 3:1-13) and the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:22-24), two moments that are decidedly divided in the bible...

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The Majesty of Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel: the Last Judgement, 1538-41 Giclee Print Michelangelo Buonarroti 12 in. x 9 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted The Sistine Chapel isn’t only about Michelangelo. It’s a...

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The High Renaissance in Italy

Primavera, circa 1478 Giclee Print Botticelli, Sandro 12 in. x 9 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted Wonderful Florence met the end of its Renaissance heyday in the 1490s for several reasons....

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Why is it called the “High” Renaissance?

Renaissance I Art Print Osborne, Susan 20 in. x 20 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted Simply put, this period represented a culmination. The tentative artistic explorations of the...

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The Big Three Names of the High Renaissance

Madonna and Child Giclee Print Sano di Pietro 9 in. x 12 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted They were: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio). These are the...

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Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Leonardo Da Vinci Giclee Print 18 in. x 24 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted • Trained in Florence. • Is best known as a painter, but did absolutely everything else as well. • Studied human...

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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

David, Detail of the Head, 1504 Giclee Print Michelangelo 9 in. x 12 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted • Trained in Florence. • Is best known as a painter and sculptor, but worked in...

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Raphael (1483-1520)

La Belle Jardiniere, 1507 Giclee Print Raphael 9 in. x 12 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed   Mounted • Trained in Umbria, but studied in Florence (where he picked up his draftsmanship and compositional...

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Religion Art: Adam and Eve Giclee Print

Adam and Eve Art Print Cranach the Elder, Lucas 9 in. x 12 in. Buy This Allposters.com adam and eve, adam and eve posters, christianity posters, biblical figures, renaissance art, old testament...

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Adam and Eve After the Expulsion from Paradise Art Print

Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise Art Print Veronese, Paolo 12 in. x 9 in. Buy This Allposters.com The Renaissance, in the largest sense of the term, is the whole process of transition in...

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Two Angels Art Print by Raphael

Two Angels, Raphael by _angelsSee more Angels Posters Two Angels, Raphael Detail from the Sistine Chapel, Raphael (Raffaello Santi). Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6,...

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The Spirit of the Renaissance

Flora, Detail from the Primavera, c.1478 Sandro Botticelli 18 in. x 24 in. Buy This at Allposters.com In the summer of 1508 Leonardo returned to Milan, which was to be his headquarters for the next...

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Did Leonardo da Vinci copy his famous ‘Vitruvian Man’?

Vitruvian Man, c.1492 Leonardo da Vinci 9 in. x 12 in. Buy This at Allposters.com Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the “Vitruvian Man,”...

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Michelangelo and The Creation of Adam

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, b. Caprese, Tuscany. Early Life and Work Michelangelo drew extensively as a child, and his father placed him under...

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Hidden details discovered in DaVinci piece

Restoration reveals that Da Vinci’s assistants didn’t help paint “Virgin of the Rocks.” A project to restore Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks’ has revealed new details and to propose the...

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Virgin and Child with St. Catherine and Mary Magdalene, circa 1500 (Giclee...

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Hands of God and Adam Art Print

Hands of God and Adam Posters by bridgemanimages Shop for Michelangelo Posters online at Zazzle.com hands of god and adam art print, religious posters, christianity posters, Michelangelo Buonarroti,...

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The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo Da Vinci

The Renaissance artist was a master craftsman with a refined understanding of the materials of his art. The need to learn about materials was one of the reasons for the lengthy apprenticeship of the...

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Renaissance Art: Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. The versatility and creative power of Leonardo mark him...

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Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

The physical appearance of artists’ shops of the Renaissance was no different from that of many other crafts. The word “artist” as a generic term was almost never used: a painter was called a painter,...

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Italian Art: Mars, Venus and Amor by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian...

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Things You Didn’t Know About the Mona Lisa

Her tricky smile and timeless allure have inspired academic study and artistic emulation for more than five centuries. But the story of this perplexing portrait is even richer than it looks. “Mona...

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