After an excellent education, she married the Duke of Mantua, and started collecting paintings, most commissioned in great detail for her private study.
Perugino
He trained alongside Leonardo, painted frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and taught the young Raphael, as well as being a great painter.
Major works from around 1500 by Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Botticelli, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, and Fra Bartolomeo.
How rendering of the surface texture of fabrics changed during the southern Renaissance, and new techniques were exported to the north.
A brief overview of his career, with some of his finest paintings, and links to more detailed accounts.
An architect, a sculptor and painter, and a young painter. Add a Pope who wants to be remembered, and this is what happens.
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Eight large frescoes in a style which assimilated what Raphael saw in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, and an arch of sibyls.
During this period spent mainly in Florence, he learned from the innovations of Leonardo da Vinci, who was there at the same time. Raphael’s own style emerges.
Some of his earliest independent paintings, including two wonderful pairs based on legend and contemporary literature.
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