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Italian Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta (2313 words) |
 | A primary characteristic of Italian art and architecture, particularly after the Renaissance, is that it has been strongly affected by the cultural legacy of Italy's Classical past. |
| Although Christian art and architecture predominated in Italy at this time, Islamic forms of decoration reached the country with the Saracen conquest of Sicily in the 9th century, and even outlived the effects of the Norman invasion of southern Italy that took place in the 11th century. |
| By far the most significant painter of the Early Renaissance was Masaccio, who in the 1420s reacted against the the artificial elegance of the International Gothic style, as practised in Florence by Lorenzo Monaco and Gentile da Fabriano. |
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| He was born in Florence and in 1420 became an assistant to the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, and aided him in executing the bronze north doors of the Florence Baptistery. |
| In the 1420s and 1430s as partner of the sculptor Donatello, he worked on tombs for antipope John XXIII (in the Baptistery) and other notables. |
| Later, for the same patron, he built the magnificent Medici-Riccardi Palace (1444–60) in Florence, a notable example of 15th-century Italian architecture and one of the outstanding monuments preserved in Florence today. |
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