Italian Art to 1600
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 16 Italian Renaissance paintings dating from 1490 to 1593. This collection comprises works that are attributed to artists either born in or working in the area from Lombardy in the north to Naples in the south, with the exception of the Veneto and Tuscany, which are described in Venetian Art and Tuscan Art. The works depict religious subject matters. Among the most notable works are those by the Rome-based Cavalier d’Arpino, ‘St Michael expelling the Rebel Angels’, the Ferrarese masters Garofalo, ‘St Ursula’ and ‘St Catherine’, and The Master of the Twelve Apostles, ‘Noli me tangere….’, and the Bolognese Francesco Francia, ‘The Nativity’. Alongside works by these masters are several early copies after important artists such as Parmigianino and Correggio, and works by as-yet unnamed painters, particularly from the Lombard region. Other named artists represented in this group include Albertino Piazza, Camillo Boccaccino, Latanzio Gambara (a detached fresco depicting a ‘Sybil’), Girolamo da Carpi, Ortolano, Orazio Sammachini and Polidoro da Lanciano. The Renaissance was a cultural movement that began in Italy in about 1400 and spread across Europe until roughly 1600. It involved artists, scientists, scholars and philosophers who were influenced by Ancient Roman and Greek sources. It is a period perhaps most associated with the development of linear perspective and modern conceptions of realism in painting.
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