In some areas, the paint has been left to run down the canvas. Is this the place from where the man has travelled? Was he put adrift? The eerie, spectral feeling of the composition is enhanced by the artist’s application of thin washes of paint. The sea around him is impossibly still, the sky a vivid pink. The article 'Explore Italy’s art masterpieces' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.In a canoe sits the ghostly figure of a long-haired, bearded man. Insight into how art played a central role in the lives of ordinary people. Ruined homes are dotted with frescoes (many of them decidedly bawdy), offering Caravaggio’s gruesome version of Judith Beheading Holofernes is in Rome’s Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, while at the wonderful Galleria Borghese you can gaze at his luminous portrait of St Jerome before catching Bernini’s Daphne at the very moment she is transformed into a tree.Įnd your trip in Pompeii, near Naples, where the Ancient Roman city’s Saint Matthew), Santa Maria del Popolo (The Conversion of St PaulĪnd, loveliest of all, Sant’Agostino, where you will find his Madonnaĭi Loreto. You canĭesign your own walking tour to take in the churches of San Luigi dei Francesi (The Martyrdom of Saint Visit at the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.Ĭaravaggio’s realist masterpieces are scattered around town. But one of his most intimate works is the Ecstasy of St Teresa, which you can Sculptures grace the Piazza Navona, St Paul’s Basilica and Piazza di Spagna, just to name a few. Museum ticket or stand in line to see their best work. Rome really came into its own during the Baroque period, the CatholicĬhurch’s great frothy counter-attack on the Reformation’s pared-down aesthetic.īernini and Caravaggio are Baroque’s greats, and you do not even have to buy a Mannerist style – in the foreground of The Has it Raphael honours his rival by painting Michelangelo’s figure – in his own The two artists were at work at the same time, and legend Straight to the Raphael Rooms before moving on to Michelangelo’s masterpiece: Resisting the urge to pause in the galleries and map halls, and heading Museums, which involve ducking and weaving among organised tour groups, Rome’s Renaissance treasures are in the Vatican Psyche and in the courtyard, monumental marble feet and hands that hint at the She-wolf countless classical masterpieces of unknown authorship like Cupid and Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of Rome, suckling at the bronze Here you will find the Etruscan sculpture of Start with a wander through Michelangelo’s magnificently harmonious Piazza del Campidoglio before moving indoors. To escape the crowds at the Vatican and the Colosseum,Īrt-lovers should instead head to the Capitoline Museums. Nonchalantly in unpretentious churches and Michelangelo’s great dome of St Peter’s watches over the whole head-spinning collection. Upon a mind-boggling Bernini at every turn, Caravaggio’s pieces hang about Like Florence, Rome is a work of art in itself. Their works and those of their contemporaries are dotted all over theįixes his steely gaze (and displays his perfect six-pack) in the Accademia Donatello’s wood-carved Magdalene weeps in the Museoĭell’Opera del Duomo Botticelli’s Venus emerges from the sea foam in the Uffizi Galleries and Brunelleschi’s dome The greatest Renaissance artists, including Leonardo, Brunelleschi, BotticelliĪnd Michelangelo – all of them Tuscan artists who built their careers inįlorence. The Medici family, who ran Europe’s largest bank, were patrons to some of The city’s upper-class had money to burn, splurging much of it onĪrt. Italian art’s greatest moment was the Renaissance, and its nerve centre Which drew on the realism and solidity of classical sculpture, paved the wayįor the great painters of the Renaissance. Of Jesus and his mother were completed in 1305, and his painterly innovations, Naturalistic painting and perfect perspective. Ideal spot to begin is in Padua, near Venice, where the Scrovegni Chapel shows Giotto’s genius at work, as he laboured to unlock the secret of Nonetheless debilitating malady, caused by exposing oneself to a large amount This is a recipe for Stendhal syndrome: an arguably psychosomatic but You want to shuffle along behind everyone else at the Vatican, in Rome, but You can see many of the greatest hits of Italian art in a single day if
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