Il Rinascimento fiorentino
The Florentine Renaissance
Florence in the fifteenth century was a city-state rich and powerful, the whose destiny was firmly in the hands of the family Medici.
Cosimo de' Medici and then his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent financed artists, philosophers and architects. The their court became the centre intellectual of Europe.
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The Renaissance meant literally rebirth: the rediscovery of the values and the forms artistic of antiquity classical. It was believed believed that the Middle Ages had been a long period of darkness.
In the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio trained formed a young man from name Leonardo da Vinci. Almost at the same time, Sandro Botticelli was painting The Birth of Venus.
Humanism, the philosophy at the centre of this season cultural, placed man at the centre of the cosmos and celebrated the capacity human to understand and transform the world.
The legacy of the Renaissance Florentine is incalculable. It has defined the canons of beauty Western and laid the foundations of modern science modern.