This Renaissance sculpture stars in a French biopic. More»
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A tender gaze and playful doves signifies peace.
Mars, the Roman god of War, leaves his weapon and helmet on the floor to be with Venus, goddess of love.
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This Renaissance Sculpture Just Became a French Movie Star
Also tagged art films, bronze, bronze sculpture, cinema, Francesco Primaticcio, movies, Yves Saint Laurent
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Revisiting a Florentine Master
Left: A Bust of a Pope-Saint, about 1310-1315, Pacino di Bonaguida. Pot-metal and clear glass, black and brown vitreous paint, 35 13/16 x 26 3/8 in. Museo dell’Opera di Santa Croce, Fondo Edifici di Culto, Ministero dell’Interno, Florence. Center: Saint Francis in Antiphonary, about 1320, Pacino di Bonaguida. Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment, 20 ½ x 13 15/16in. Archivio di Santa Croce, Florence, Corale Q, fol. 121v (Photo: Bryan C. Keene). Right: Chiarito Tabernacle (detail), 1340s, Pacino di Bonaguida. Gilded gesso and tempera on panel, 39 7/8 x 44 11/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.PB.311
New research on Pacino di Bonaguida, a central figure in the rise of the Renaissance in Florence. More»
Posted in Art, Prints and Drawings
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance Lefty
Caricature of a Man with Bushy Hair (detail), about 1494, Leonardo da Vinci. Pen and brown ink, 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.GA.647
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings contain a little-known secret. More»
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A Field Guide to Renaissance Gardens
The Temptation of Adam and Eve (detail) in Concerning the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women, about 1415, Boucicaut Master. Tempera colors, gold leaf and gold paint on parchment, 16 9/16 x 11 5/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 63, fol. 3
In the Renaissance as now, gardens came in many forms and carried many associations. A visual tour. More»
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Connecting the Art Historical Dots
Connecting Art Histories participants studying frescoes in the Casa Vasari palace in Florence, Italy.
A Getty Foundation initiative is expanding the frontiers of art history by bringing scholars together from around the globe. More»
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Edible Gardening in the Renaissance
What grew in the Renaissance garden? Many familiar favorites, from cabbage to strawberries. More»
Also tagged alliums, garden archaeology, gardening, Gardens of the Renaissance, horticulture, recipes, vegetables
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Researching the Renaissance
Florence, del Sarto, and I.
“It’s amazing to be immersed in Andrea del Sarto’s home city, his drawings, paintings, frescoes, and his life, normally all so far away when I’m in L.A.” More»
Also tagged Andrea del Sarto, draftsmanship, drawing, Florence, Italy, Renaissance Florence, Villa I Tatti
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Getty Voices: Renaissance Gardens
A journey through Renaissance gardens and their paradoxes: natural and artificial, sin and salvation, virtue and vice. More»
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Conserving Pacino di Bonaguida: My Getty Foundation Fellowship
The Panel Paintings Initiative is training the next generation of conservators of paintings on wood panels, and including professionals from Eastern Europe is a high priority. In this post, Polish conservator Aleksandra Hola describes her experience with the program. For… More»
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Actor Peter Weller Discusses Renaissance Florence (and Answers Your Questions!)
Actor Peter Weller in Padua, Italy
Actor and director Peter Weller is known for his many film and television roles, most famously Robocop in Paul Verhoeven’s campy classic. However, Weller’s interests go far beyond the camera—he is a scholar of Italian Renaissance art who is completing… More»
