Urbino

Examples of Urbino in the following topics:

• Urbino

  • Urbino was an important center of Renaissance culture in the 15th century.
  • Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro.
  • It hosts the University of Urbino, founded in 1506, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Urbino.
  • The Duomo di Urbino, the cathedral at Urbino, was founded in 1021 and rebuilt in the 15th century; the rebuilding was commissioned by the duke of the period, Federico III.
  • The Duomo di Urbino is the main church of the city and cathedral of Urbino.

• Humanism

  • There were important centres of humanism in Florence, Naples, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Mantua, Ferrara, and Urbino.

• Renaissance Architecture in Rome

  • Bramante was born in Urbino and first came to prominence as an architect in Milan before traveling to Rome.

• Architecture in the High Renaissance

  • Bramante was born in Urbino and first came to prominence as an architect in Milan before traveling to Rome.

• Manet

  • As he had in Luncheon on the Grass, Manet again paraphrased a respected work by a Renaissance artist in his painting Olympia (1863), a nude portrayed in pose that was based on Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538).