LANCASTER IN STYLE, PART 27: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE REVIVAL, 1890-1930. The styles of Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance Revival ran on parallel timelines and had similarities.

When I was an art history student, way back in the last century, a tour of Renaissance Italy was the highlight of the course. We went to Florence to see the Michelangelos.

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The piece was most likely commissioned by Isabella d’Este, one of Renaissance Italy’s most influential patrons and collectors, Dr. Cambareri said. The bust, she said, ...