Hall II

Renaissance & Baroque

Rebirth of antiquity, triumph of faith, theatre of the senses.

Renaissance & Baroque
I

Florence, 1400

Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio founded a new art of measure and humanity.

II

Rome, 1500

Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael served the popes in a single generation of genius.

III

Counter-Reformation

Trent called for art that moves the faithful; Bernini answered in bronze and marble.

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