Italian Art

Italian Art posts cover the long Italian contribution to Western art, from Etruscan tomb painting through Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna, Giotto and the early Renaissance, the high Renaissance of Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, the Venetian school of Titian and Veronese, Caravaggio and the Baroque, the eighteenth-century vedute of Canaletto and Guardi, the Macchiaioli of nineteenth-century Tuscany, the Futurists, the Metaphysical painting of de Chirico, and the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s. Articles try to put each phase in its city, since Italian art is regional all the way down to the patron families.