Brother Gregorio White from Vicenza. Artist - Lorenzo Lotto
In the region was dominated by Venice and Milan, which have long competed for control over the lands stretching between them. In the beginning of XVI century the political situation in Northern Italy was further complicated by the French, Spanish and papal claims to various parts of the Peninsula. In subsequent years, the Spaniards, the Venetians and the papal States strengthened its control, although some cities managed to retain their independence.
Despite the political uncertainty of the first decades of the XVI century, art flourished in all major cities of Lombardy, Emilia-Романьи and Veneto. Even a contemporary artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, the author of groundbreaking biographies of the artists (1550, 1568) and a staunch defender of all things Tuscan and Roman, had to acknowledge that Giorgione and Titian in Venice, and Correggio in Parma were brilliant practitioners of what he called the maniera moderna, or modern painting style.
When discussing these schools of painting are obvious distinct regional characteristics. For example, in Lombardy and its capital Milan since the end of the XV century, there was a fascination with visual perspective effects. In Bologna and Ferrara, in the Emilia, there were other interests, such as the desire to imitate Raphael and other artists, active in Central Italy and creating paintings, leading to the idea of poetry. The Venetian painters of the sixteenth century has long enjoyed a reputation as the standard bearers of the approach that was simultaneously pictorial, emotional, and imbued with the primacy of color as its guiding principle. However, artists in the three regions shared a lot of aesthetic purposes, and many artistic ties bound them together.
In-первых, after 1480-х years and throughout the next century the influence of Leonardo da Vinci was strong and this influence can be seen in the paintings from Milan, Bologna and Parma. More broadly observant audience and the authors felt that the Lombard, Emilian and Venetian artists were United by the naturalism of their painting - in degrees that varied from artist to artist and region to region, but nonetheless present almost everywhere." Натурализм" for them meant the study of the natural world, with its emphasis on direct observation translated into paint - accent, which differentiated their work from their colleagues - artists South of the Apennines.
Federico Gonzaga (1500-1540). Artist - Francesco Francia
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