Italian Art. XV Century. Florence

In the XV century it became the center of Florence Italian culture, the cradle of the Renaissance. Alexey Vysheslavtsev (1831-1888) is known in two seemingly not quite comparable guises - as a traveler and as an art historian. With Vysheslavtsev travelers interested could meet his essays on pen and pencil of the circumnavigation. Now you have the opportunity to learn Vysheslavtseva as one of the most prominent Russian historians of the second half of the XIX century - thanks to his work "The Art of Italy. XV century. Florence "(1883). Vysheslavtseva book is devoted to one of the most exciting periods in the development of European and world art - the golden age of Florence. If the XIV century in Italy was the dominant style of Giotto, in the XV century onward development is divided into several areas in different provinces formed their own distinctive artistic school. But among these schools, developing a variety of influences, most notably becoming Florentine. Throughout the XV century Florence is a center of scientific and artistic activities. Here we lived and worked Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and other great masters. "From it come the main leaders and carried to other areas Italii and a new word; and new techniques, it the genius of her sons worked out these new techniques and new way. "