Italian Florentine

20 September 2010

Italian Florentine
What are the characteristics of these traditions in Italian Renaissance?

Florentine Tradition
Byzantine Tradition
Venetian Tradition

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BYZANTINE TRADITION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_art

"Certain artistic TRADITIONS that originated in the Byzantine Empire, particularly in regard to icon painting and CHURCH architecture, are maintained in Greece, Bulgaria, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox countries to the present day."

Section titled "Introduction"
"Just as the Byzantine empire represented the political continuation of the Roman Empire, BYZANTINE ART DEVELOPED OUT OF THE ART OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which was itself profoundly influenced by ANCIENT GREEK art. Byzantine art NEVER LOST SIGHT of this classical heritage."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_architecture

"Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a DISTINCT ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTITY from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330...The empire endured for more than a millennium, dramatically INFLUENCING Medieval and RENAISSANCE ERA architecture in Europe..."

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VENETIAN TRADITION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Gothic_architecture

Section titled "Other Gothic Buildings"
"In addition to monumental secular architecture, examples of the GOTHIC STYLE, can be seen in surviving medieval portions of cities across Europe, ABOVE ALL the distinctive VENETIAN GOTHIC."

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FLORENTINE TRADITION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_architecture

Section titled "Characeristics of Renaissance Architecture"
"One of the first true Renaissance FACADES was the Cathedral of Pienza (1459–62), which has been attributed to the FLORENTINE ARCHITECT Bernardo Gambarelli (known as Rossellino) with Alberti perhaps having some responsibility in its design as well."

Sections "Development of Renaissance architecture..."; "Alberti"
"...and the FLORENTINE TRADITION for polychrome..."

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