Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone or Ambrogiotto di Bondone, born in 1267 in Vespignano or Romignano, died on 8 January 1337 in Florence, is a Florentine painter, sculptor and architect of the Trecento, whose works are at the origin of the revival of the Western painting. It was the influence of his painting that would provoke the vast general movement of the Renaissance from the following century. Giotto is connected with the artistic current of the Pre-Renaissance, of which he is one of the masters, who manifested himself in Italy at the beginning of the fourteenth century. At the end of the Middle Ages, Giotto was the first artist whose thought and new vision of the world helped to build this movement, humanism, which places man in the central place of the universe and makes him master of his Own destiny. The frescoes painted by Giotto in Florence (Basilica Santa Croce in Florence), Assisi (Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi) and Padua (Scrovegni chapel in the A...

Michelangelo  Born on March 6, 1475 in the village of Caprese Btoscana, and died in the February 18, 1564 in Rome, a successful painter, architect, poet and dreamer, but the most prominent creative and love to his heart is the art of sculpture in which the human body showed accurate its details. He began his art since he was a child thirteen years old, when his father a judge approved his "caprese" to be trained on the wall painting at the "Domenico" painter plaster, he left after a year. After some years spent in the gardens of San Marco, to the study of human anatomy, after receiving a permit to study the corpses, he was sixteen years old, has been completed at this age two paintings of relief sculpture, the first small act of Lady Mary sitting on a stone church, the work the second was about the myth of the battle of the objects superstitious. The Anglo housing in Lorenzo's house patron Arts in Florence and its ruler in 1490 - 1492, where h...

Futurism  Future school began in Italy, and then moved to France, and was designed to last resistance to the so called Futurism, and is interested in an artist Futurism change outstanding continuing effectiveness of the twentieth century, who knew the speed and technical progress. The artist tried to express it movement and light, all things move and place and is changing rapidly. The future school is of paramount importance, as it was able to find a form of proportional with the nature of the times we live in, and focus on the modern man. Futurism holistic word that means facing towards the future and start a new culture and break with the past. And it activates the futurists in all artistic branches, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theater, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even the art of cooking. Futurists Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carrà, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Bocci...