| Description: This guided tour will present to the participants the realistic tendencies of 16th-century painting - from Leonardo's naturalism to Caravaggio's realism - in the major art centres in Lombardy: Milan and its broader environment, Brescia, Bergamo, and Cremona. Sources: FREEDBERG, S. J. (editor), Painting in Italy: 1500 to 1600 (Pelican History of Art), Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993; BAYER, Andrea (editor), Painters of Reality, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004; LAUREATI, Laura, Painting Nature , in The Genius of Rome edited by Beverly Louise BROWN, Royal Academy of Art, London 2001; BROWN, David Allan, HUMFREY, Peter, LUCCO, Mauro, Lorenzo Lotto - Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1998; Encyclopædia Britannica (online edition); Wikipedia (relevant articles). |
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