From Florence to Rome and Venice · Renaissance, color and invention

Italian painting renews space, body, story and light, from Giotto and Botticelli to Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Caravaggio.

Italy occupies a central place in the history of Western painting. From the end of the Middle Ages, Giotto gave weight, emotion and space to figures. In Florence, the Renaissance combined perspective, study of the body, humanism and rediscovery of Antiquity. Botticelli transforms myth into a poetic line in The Birth of Venus; Leonardo built with The Mona Lisa a presence based on sfumato and the ambiguity of the gaze. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Michelangelo organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an ideal architecture where philosophy becomes collective movement. Raphael organizes in The School of Athens an renews the story with direct and dramatic light. The selection "Italian Paintings - Top 1000 Masterpieces" notably compares The Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci and The Birth of Venus - Sandro Botticelli. His reading favors details.

Italian painting is not a unique style: it is a series of inventions that constantly transform the way of representing space, the body and light.