Written by Susan Elizabeth Benenson
Written by Susan Elizabeth Benenson
Western painting
Written by Susan Elizabeth Benenson
During the first decade of the 16th century, Fernando Yáñez, who may have assisted Leonardo da Vinci on the “Battle of Anghiari” in 1505, executed works showing a good knowledge of Italian Renaissance developments. Further Italianate tendencies emerged strongly in the Valencian works of Juan de Macip and his son Juan de Juanes. Full-fledged Mannerism made its appearance in the Seville cathedral in the “Descent from the Cross” (1547) by Pedro Campaña (Pieter de Kempeneer), an artist from Brussels, and subsequently in the refined court portraiture of Anthonis Mor (Sir Anthony More) and Alonso Sánchez Coello, whose royal ... (100 of 71,656 words)Spain