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Artistic Excursions |
This is an itinerary which will take your breath away, whoever you are: from the first civilisations that colonised this land, Tuscany has never ceased to show an often unique sense of creativity. In the Romanesque buildings of worship we find the triumph of metaphysical beauty translated into the language of a sensitive world. Gothic churches were already soaring at the end of the 12th century, where verticalism and the desire for light coincided. The twelfth century saw the rise of a new power, the municipal administrative governments: circular town walls and municipal palaces arose proudly. In Siena and Perugia, sculpture became the guiding art under Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, whereas on the site of the basilica of Assisi ,Cimabue and Giotto reached the artistic hiatus which Vasari defines as “Latin”, in contrast with the “Greek” style of the Byzantines which had dominated until then. In the first half of the fourteenth century the great Sienese school of painting flourished under Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers. Palaces of the nobility, those magnificent Renaissance examples in Tuscany overlooking the squares in carefully studied scenographies, embody the ideals described in the humanistic treatises. The fifteenth century was also the age of the Perugino and of Piero della Francesca, of the intense Signorelli and the bizarre Sodoma and gives way to a sixteenth century theatre of the final Tuscan splendours: a vast future, that of the European court, turns out the lights on the small towns of the region. And yet, if we wander around the villages and towns there is no lack of precious works of art, produced up until our times. Any eye that is accustomed to the past will be able to recognise them.
Verso la nuova arte
Siena
Monteriggioni
Verso Piero della Francesca
Cortona
Arezzo
Monterchi
Borgo San Sepolcro
Verso il Monachesimo
Monte Oliveto
San Antimo
Verso la riscoperta dell’Umanesimo
Pienza
Sant’Anna in Canprena
Montepulciano
Ritorno al Medioevo Umbro
Perugia
Assisi
La toscana medioevale
Castiglion d’Orcia
Montalcino
Radicofani
San Gimignano
Vicino casa Lemmi
Petroio
Trequanda
Sinalunga
Tra mare , montagna, maremma.
Abbadia San Salvatore
Sovana
Pitigliano
Grosseto
Massa Marittima |
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