Synchrotron technique reveals more details of mysterious underlying portrait in Renaissance painting
(left) Cosimo I de''Medici in armor by Agnolo Bronzini c1545 Art Gallery of NSW and (right) Composite XRF scan map showing mercury (red) and iron (green). Credit: Australia's Nuclear Science and ...
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci avoided the palette and mixed colors directly on the canvas, Italian researchers said after they reconstructed his work step by step ...
“Before 1430, paintings looked awkward and almost cartoonish,” Stork said, using an example of Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone. “The theory is this: Renaissance painters used mirrors and lenses ...
Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself ...
Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand visual narratives of ...
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