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Great artists of the Italian Renaissance, William Kloss, Part 1

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Great artists of the Italian Renaissance

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William Kloss

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Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each by William Kloss, independent art historian with Smithsonian Associates, the Smithsonian Institution. These lectures cover the art historical periods known as the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance, which extended from about 1400 to about 1520. No era of artistic achievement is as renowned as the Renaissance, and no country holds a higher place in that period than Italy. The supreme works created in Florence, Rome, Venice, and other Italian cities by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian have never been equaled and have established a canon of beauty that pervades Western culture to this day. In this artist-centered survey, many works are explored in considerable depth, while also examining hundreds of different paintings and sculptures by scores of different artistsCourse of 36 lectures (30 min. each) introduces the art of the Italian Renaissance

pt. 1. Italy and the Renaissance -- From Gothic to Renaissance -- Brunelleschi and Ghiberti in Florence -- Donatello and Luca della Robbia -- Masaccio -- Massaccio: the Branacci Chapel -- Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi -- Three specialists -- Donatello and Padua -- Piero della Francesca: individual works -- Piero della Francesca: Legend of the True Cross -- Pageant of life in Renaissance Florence -- pt.

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