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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 165. Chapters: Leda and the Swan, Danse Macabre, Andromeda, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mandala, Iconclass, Thematic development of Italian Renaissance painting, Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England, Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc, Barber's pole, Depictions of Muhammad, Halo, Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting, Three hares, Green Man, Wild man, Sheela na Gig, Mudra, Hexagram, Taijitu, Mongol elements in Western medieval art, The Rape of the Sabine Women, Triskelion, Ashtamangala, Religious image, Et in Arcadia ego, Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand, Crown of Immortality, Physical characteristics of the Buddha, Memento mori, Hindu iconography, Silk Road transmission of art, Nilotic landscape, Confronted animals, Circle of stars, Triquetra, Velificatio, Venus Anadyomene, Interlace, Persian-Sassanid art patterns, Gorgoneion, Labours of the Months, Buddha images in Thailand, Speech scroll, Tablets of Stone, Qadam Rasul, Vesica piscis, Titulus, Vanitas, Roman Charity, Aniconism in Buddhism, Fig leaf, Father Time, Statue of Hope, Justice of Trajan, Surya Majapahit, Tronie, Conversation piece, Indian iconography, Historiated initial, Dionysius of Fourna, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Shilpa Shastras, Eleftherios Foulidis, Xenia motif, Conjectural portrait, Death and the Maiden, Rape of Proserpine. Excerpt: This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo's Last Judgement of the 1530s. The themes that preoccupied painters of the Italian Renaissance were those of both subject matter and execution- what was painted and the style in which it was painted. The artist had far more ...
