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Creation Of Adam poster print by  Michelangelo
Creation Of Adam
 

 
The Medici family dominated Florentine political life commissioning works from Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello
and Fra Angelico. Cosimo de Medici founded the Medici collection in the Laurentian Library.
The Renaissance was a rebirth of humanism, beginning in Italy and spreading throughout northern Europe.

Notable Artists of the Renaissance
Notable Musicians of the Renaissance

Notable Writers of the Renaissance included:

Italy, late 13th and 14th centuries
Dante Alighieri - 1265-1321
Petrarch - 1304-1374
Giovanni Boccaccio - 1312-1353

Florence 15th century
Petrarch - 1304-1374
Giovanni Boccaccio - 1312-1353
Marsilio Ficino - 1433-1499
Lorenzo de Medici - 1449-1492
Angelo Poliziano - 1454-1494
Pico della Mirandola - 1463-1494
Niccolo Machiavelli - 1469-1527
Baldassare Castiglione - 1478-1529

Rome Late 15th & early 16th centuries
Ludovico Ariosto - 1474-1533
Baldassare Castiglione - 1478-1529
Martin Luther - 1483-1531
Giorgio Vasari - 1511-1574
Torquato Tasso - 1544-1595
Giordano Bruno - 1548-1600

Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel was built at the end of the 15th century by Giovanni Dolci. Its walls are frescoed with 12 paintings by
Perugino, Pinturicchio, Botticelli, Signorelli and Ghirlandaio, and the greatest masterpiece being the frescoes of the vaults painted
by
Michelangelo for Pope Julius 11 between 1508 and 1512. The restoration of the ceiling between 1985 and 1989 revealed pure color,
which caused doubts and incredulity which is still discussed.

 

 

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