WUNDRAM MANFRED

(H/B) RENAISSANCE
Art as we know it today would not exist without the Renaissance. Widely considered the most influential phenomenon in European art, architecture, literature, and science, the movement revolutionized the Western conception of reality and heralded the emergence of modernity out of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance first gained momentum in Italy, at the end of the 14th century, spreading across Europe over the course of the next centuries, with dynamic epicenters in Florence, the Low Countries, and Germany. The movement found its intellectual ...
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ANDREA PALLADIO 1508-1580
No other architect in the history of Western art has ever had an effect that was as spontaneous and as long lasting, indeed one that has reverberated undiminished over centuries, as did Andrea Palladio. What has come to be called Palladianism transcends the boundaries of all country-specific categories in the field of art. It not only spread to other Romantic countries, but also took hold in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, and ultimately became one of the most important roots of seventeenth and eighteenth century ...
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