Roman Renaissance. The Renaissance in Rome was a season that goes from the late 15th to the mid-16th centuries, when the Papal city was the most important place of artistic production of the entire continent with masters who left an indelible mark on Western figurative art, such as Michelangelo and Raphael. Historical background[edit] The fourteenth century, with the absence of the popes during the Avignon Papacy, was a century of neglect and misery for the city of Rome, which dropped to its lowest level of population. With the return of the papacy to Rome repeatedly postponed because of the bad conditions of the city and the lack of control and security, it was first necessary to strengthen the political and doctrinal aspects of the pontiff.
When in 1377 Gregory XI was in fact returned to Rome, he found a city in anarchy because of the struggles between the nobility and the popular faction, and in which his power was now more formal than real. Martin V (1417–1431)[edit] Eugene IV (1431–1447)[edit] National Portrait Gallery, Portrait 42 - Emblems of beauty. Only in the fifteenth century did European artists, working both north and south of the Alps, once again begin to produce independent portraits of men and women.
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, celebrates the Italian contribution to that first great age of portraiture in Europe, allowing visitors to experience the innovative responses of artists to the new challenge of recording an individual likeness and, in so doing, to explore issues of identity as well.
In fifteenth-century portraiture individuals step out from their subsidiary roles in altarpieces and mosaic and fresco cycles, where they had previously been shown as donor figures and consigned to subordinate positions, often on a diminutive scale, perhaps in profile or kneeling with their hands clasped. The visage and upper torso, treated in isolation, now filled the rectangle of an independent panel, which could be hung in the private room of a palace. Medieval Castle History, Design of Medieval Castles, Haunted Castles: www.medieval-castle.com. Domenico Ghirlandaio | artist | 1449 - 1494. Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto. Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto (before 1494–1542), by king Charles I of Spain, was the eldest bastard son of king Ferdinand I of Naples and Diana Guardato, one of his mistresses.
The addition 'Montalto de Aragón' is in remembrance of his grandfather, Alfonso V of Aragon. Marriages and Issue[edit] Ferdinando was the 9th child of Ferdinand I of Naples. He first married Anna Sanseverino. 1) Antonio d'Aragona y Cardona? 1st marriage: 1541, Ippolita della Rovere (1525–1561). Francesco Maria della Rovere, (1490 - 1538), and sisters were members of the famous family of the Dukes of Urbino on their mother side and related to belicous Popes Sixtus IV, a.k.a.
Coat of Arms of the belicous family "della Rovere", Princes of Urbino, through their association with the powerful "Montefeltro" Ducal family since 1503 also 2nd marriage: Giulia Antonia de Cardona, Countess di Collisano o 1.1. O 1.2. 2nd marriage: Aloisia de Luna, Duchess of Bivona, deceased 1619; kids by 2nd marriage: 2).
National Portrait Gallery, Portrait 42 - Emblems of beauty.