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European Paintings From Leonardo to Goya

by olesia
Dec 10, 2025
Art History

We can study art, for example, from a historical standpoint. We should be thankful to them for this.We have benefited, especially, from images of paintings and the web pages of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles,the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Rijksmusem museum.

Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455). Painting Piety in Fifteenth-Century in Italy

Jan 25, 2026
Art History

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Vicchio, c. 1395 – Rome, 18 February 1455), known as Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar and one of the greatest painters of the early Florentine Renaissance during the 15th century. He earned his reputation for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco in Florence, by comission of Cossimo de Medici ‘The Elder’, founder of the Medici...

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Early Netherlandish Painting

Jan 25, 2026
Art History

Together with Italy, the leading region in Europe for the production of paintings during the fifteenth century was an area roughly corresponding to modern-day Belgium. Several of the greatest painters of the time worked there, including Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose works we will study in this course. The image on...

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Knowledge and Beauty in the High Renaissance

Dec 17, 2025
Art History

We are moving back in time a bit in this lecture. Bosch and Pieter Brueghel developed their styles independently from the main current of European painting during the 16th century. Most artists at the time followed the example set by three masters: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. We now turn our attention to them, […]

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Michelangelo (1475-1564). Renaissance Grandeur

Dec 17, 2025
Art History

Michelangelo Buonarroti, usually referred to simply as Michelangelo, lived a long life from 1475 to 1564. Trained in Florence, he worked there and in Rome for most of his career. He was a sculptor, architect, painter, and a great draughtsman. While we focus here on his paintings, it is important to remember that he also […]

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569). The Human Face of the Renaissance

Dec 17, 2025
Art History

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born around 1525 and died in 1569. He worked mainly in Antwerp and Brussels. He was a painter and a highly important draftsman, deeply attuned to new ideas about the world, which he reflects in the content of many of his pictures. Yet in terms of style, he is perhaps […]

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