Italian art has influenced several major movements throughout the centuries and has produced several great artists, including painters, architects and sculptors.
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15 Facts About Italian art
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When Constantine moved the capital of the empire to Byzantium, Roman Italian art incorporated Eastern influences to produce the Byzantine style of the late empire.
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Italian art portrayed many of his figures in realistic settings.
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Italian art's masterpieces include three statues of the Biblical hero David.
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Italian art used arches, columns, and other elements of classical architecture in his designs.
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Italian art painted a number of beautiful pictures of the Madonna and many outstanding portraits.
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Italian art wanted to know how everything that he saw in nature worked.
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Italian art's first Roman masterpiece, the Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio, is a centralized dome structure that recalls Classical temple architecture.
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The Italian art Benvenuto Cellini and Flemish born Giambologna were the style's chief representatives in sculpture.
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Italian art is considered to have most fully realized his theories in two sculptures, Development of a Bottle in Space, in which he represented both the inner and outer contours of a bottle, and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, in which a human figure is not portrayed as one solid form but is instead composed of the multiple planes in space through which the figure moves.
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Metaphysical Painting is an Italian art movement, born in 1917 with the work of Carlo Carra and Giorgio de Chirico in Ferrara.
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Under Sarfatti's leadership, the group sought to renew Italian art by rejecting European avant-garde movements and embracing Italy's artistic traditions.
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Italian art has defined Transavantgarde art as traditional in format ; apolitical; and, above all else, eclectic.
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