Italian Painting

Italian painting is one of the most important in world history. Works of art produced in this geographic region are brilliant. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. [1]

Main exponents of Italian painting are: Giotto di Bondone, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Vittore Carpaccio, Michelangelo, Tiziano Vicellio, Raphael, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Annibale Carracci, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Domenico Zampieri, Carlino Dolci, Antonio Canaletto and Amedeo Modigliani.

During the 19th century Italian artists responded to movements such as Romanticism and realism, but with little originality... The main artists were Giovanni Fattori (1825–1908), Silvestro Lega (1826–1895), and Telemaco Signorini (1835–1901), main exponents of a group known as Macchiaioli (patchers). [2]

In the 20th century, Lucio Fontana, founded the Spazialismo (style in which matter should be transformed into energy in order to invade space in a dynamic form), and Giorgio de Chirico founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists.

Italian painting is studied in periods like: The Medieval, the Renaissance, Mannerism, Venetian Painting, the Baroque Period, the Rococo Period, and Modern painting.