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Description: Birth of the Baptist, detail

TitleBirth of the Baptist, detail

Creator nameGhirlandaio

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creation datec. 1485–1490

Object typePainting

SubjectsPainting, Renaissance--ItalyMural painting and decoration, Renaissance--Italy

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Introduction

Marcia B. Hall

After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century

The “Rebirth” to which the term Renaissance refers is, in one sense, the rebirth of culture after its long sleep in the Middle Ages; in another sense, it is the rebirth of antique culture. To understand the excitement that...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-11

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100107&redirecttoanchor=201617

Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyVasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574ClassicismMannerism (Art)--ItalyRaphael, 1483-1520Antiquities, RomanMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564

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