Michelangelo Buonarroti’s artistic career spanned more than seven decades, during which time he produced some of the most extraordinary works of art in human history. Dividing his time between his native city of Florence and his adopted city of Rome, the “Divine Michelangelo”, as he was known, wa...

Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture on Lorenzo Ghiberti, one of the most important sculptors of the Italian Renaissance. Trained as a goldsmith, Ghiberti produced an extraordinary array of bronze sculptures that adorn Florence’s most important buildings. In 1401, Ghiberti exploded onto the Flor...

Known as the pittore maledetto – or the “cursed painter” - Caravaggio not only revolutionized painting at the turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries with his “hyper-realistic” style, he literally turned Rome on its head with his often-criminal behavior. Spending much of his time between brothels and...

Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture to understand how the 14th-century Florentine painter Giotto revolutionized Western art. He definitively broke with the Byzantine-style tradition of his time by transforming iconic and sacred images into realistic and humanized ones, using nature as his inspi...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's extraordinary visual language of sculpture combines Classical form and proportion with a Baroque love for the theatrical. His works are as amazing today as they were in 17th-century Rome. Join Dr. Rocky for this free webinar where he shall examine the career of this famed s...

In the first half of the 14th Century, Siena was home to Europe's most important school of painting. The father of this school was Duccio di Buoninsegna, one of the most celebrated Italian painters in history. Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture where he will explore the career of this extraord...

Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture that will examine the art and career of the extraordinary sculptor who is best known as the master of Leonardo da Vinci. Although often overshadowed by his pupil, Verrocchio was one of the most significant sculptors in history. He was also one of the most inf...

In 1507, a 24-year-old artist from Urbino named Raphael Sanzio exploded onto the art scene when Pope Julius II awarded him the contract to fresco the walls of his personal apartments. The result was some of the most beautiful paintings of the Renaissance - including his famous School of Athens - ...

Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture where he will examine the extraordinary artistic genius of the 15th-century sculptor Donatello. From his early marble statues for Florence Cathedral, to his eclectic bronze David, to his magnificent bronze reliefs for the Medici, to his moving Penitent Magdal...

Nicola Pisano revolutionized sculpture in the 13th century by introducing emotion, movement, naturalism, and drama. Pisano’s Classically-inspired sculptures influenced the works of Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini and laid the foundation for European sculpture. Join Dr. Rocky for this video l...

Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture that will examine the extraordinary artistic genius of Leonardo da Vinci. From his famous paintings such as the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, to his visionary inventions, amazingly accurate anatomical and geological studies, and futuristic engineering projec...

Alessandro Filipepi - better known to the world as Sandro Botticelli - revolutionized the Italian art world with his introduction of mythological themes. From his magical Primavera to his iconic Birth of Venus, many of Botticelli's paintings were milestones in the development of Renaissance art. ...

Jacopo Robusti, better known to the world as “Tintoretto”, was one of the most important painters of the Italian Renaissance. A native of Venice, his career spanned a half-century during which time he produced some of the largest and most dramatic paintings of the Renaissance. His frenetic style ...

The goldsmith-turned-revolutionary-architect Filippo Brunelleschi made a name for himself in early Renaissance Florence with projects such as the Hospital of the Innocents and the Medici-sponsored Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo. But the project that best defines Brunelleschi’s ingegno and vision was...

Although not as well known as many of his contemporaries because a majority of his works are not in major Italian cities such as Rome, Florence and Venice, Piero della Francesca was a giant of the early Renaissance. His combination of meticulous perspective, voluminous figures and bright uniform ...

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni, better known to the world as "Masaccio," exploded onto Florence's art scene at the beginning of the 15th Century and transformed the world of painting. His frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel heralded a new pictorial language based on naturalism, drama, and realistic space. ...

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, better known to the world as Fra Angelico, painted some of the most beautiful and spiritually charged paintings of the early Renaissance. His moving works and simple lifestyle were the motivation behind his beatification in 1982 by St. Pope John Paul II. Join Dr. Rocky fo...

Join Dr. Rocky for this video lecture about the artist who put the Italian city of Parma on the artistic map. Correggio’s sensual painting style was strongly influenced by Leonardo; it combines sublime draughtsmanship with endless layers of glaze, giving his paintings a shimmering, almost proto-B...

Tiziano Vecelli, better known in English as Titian, was the leading exponent of Venetian painting and Europe's leading portraitist during the Renaissance. He worked for popes, princes, and emperors throughout his long and illustrious career and transformed painting from a mechanical to a poetic a...