Perugino. Christ Giving the Keys to Peter.

10 Famous Italian Renaissance Paintings You Should Know

Regia Marinho
3 min readJan 27, 2022

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The painters of Renaissance Italy often occupied a diplomatic status. For art lovers.

Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula.

The painters of Renaissance Italy often occupied a diplomatic status and disseminated artistic and philosophical ideas.

The influences upon the development of Renaissance painting in Italy are those that also affected Philosophy, Literature, Architecture, Theology, Science, Government, and other aspects of society.

Domenico Ghirlandaio.

The Birth of the Virgin Mary shows the introduction of patron’s families into religious cycles.

Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Birth of the Virgin Mary, shows the introduction of patron’s families into religious cycles.

Botticelli.

The Birth of Venus for the Medici. Created in the late 15th century.

The Birth of Venus is Botticelli’s famous mythological painting.

It shows a recently born Venus, the Roman goddess associated with love and beauty, standing nude in an enlarged…

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