Florence and Rome
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Area related : Rome (Italy)
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During the early 16th century, artists responded to their patrons' desire to promote a renaissance of classical ideals with paintings that reveal the study of nature and ancient sculpture.
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Fra Bartolommeo's devotional pictures are notable for their harmonious color and idealized but recognizably Tuscan landscapes. The Florentine Michelangelo, primarily a sculptor, isolated the human body to give his compositions a monumental grandeur.
Raphael came to Florence in around 1505 and brilliantly combined both approaches. In 1508, he joined Michelangelo in Rome where both artists worked for Pope Julius II and his successor. Their rivalry was notorious. Michelangelo helped design Sebastiano del Piombo's huge 'Raising of Lazarus', in successful competition with Raphael for the commissioning of an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France.
Later in the century, painting in Florence was dominated by the painter-poet Bronzino, whose highly sophisticated paintings appealed to the erudite court of his principal patron Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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Classification by : artists | type | periods | material
Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio (Polydore de Caravage) (1495-1543)
Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore (Andrea del Sarto) (1486-1530)
Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori (Agnolo Bronzino) (1503-1572)
Francesco di Cristofano Bigi (Francesco Franciabigio) (1482-1525)
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (Rosso Fiorentino) (1495-1540)
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Michel-Ange) (1475-1564) | The Entombment 
Thème religieux
Dimensions : 1,50 m x 1,62 m
approx. from 1500 to 1501
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Jésus-Christ (-4-30)
Sebastino Luciani (del Piombo) (1485-1547)
Raffaello Santi (Raphaël) (1483-1520)
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