Collection: The Renaissance

St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City in Rome. The Cathedral on St Peter’s Square is a magnificent edifice kept with larger-than-life statues of the apostles. It's the most impressive monument of the Renaissance with colonnades reminiscent of the temples of antiquity.
St. Peter’s is the largest church in the world, yet its construction would have been impossible just a few generations before. No one has the knowledge of mathematics physics and structural engineering needed to plan and organize such a vast project.

And in the mid-16th century, artists and scholars stepped onto the stage and managed to do things that had seemed impossible for the previous thousand years within just four generations they accrued the knowledge necessary to carry out massive projects such as St. Peter’s Europe was transformed under the influence of individuals like Michelangelo Buonarroti, men of extraordinary accomplishment and versatility, who found ways to bring seemingly impossible ideas to life. Their achievements still resonate today. But how did they do it? What was the secret of an age when the world seemed to undergo a paradigm shift, the age of the renaissance?

The phenomenon known as the Renaissance is one of the standard stops on any tour through the history of Western culture. It encompasses a roughly 300-year period in Europe, where architects, poets, and philosophers reconnected with the style and ambitions of ancient Greek and Roman civilization. The reason for studying the renaissance nowadays is often left a bit unclear. To the high-minded and respectful the rationale may seem utterly obvious, or to the more impatient or technologically focused the exercise can equally appear a complete waste of time.
We believe that the main reason to study history is to rescue certain good, provocative, and inspiring ideas that have been lost in the past, and to put them to use concerning the dilemmas and problems of our own times.

Artists such as Mel Araneta, Amberlee Teaño, Alecca Adarna, Anino, Patrick Nevs, Frederick Epistola, Kelvin Illut, Brent Tejada, Sarah Marie Cabrera Dino, Jan Llamado, Dia Marian Magculang, James Fowler, Romina Militante, Isad Diwa, Melchor Sabariza, Annalyn Trespicio, Windsor Magnaye, Tyang Karyel, Ela Andal and Patrisha Aguas, recreate their own notion of Rebirth or Renaissance. If this historical period taught us anything, it is that we can always look for inspiration in the past, not to imitate it, but to upgrade it.
The Renaissance influenced the modern world, but also art with the rapid exchange of new ideas and increasing travels that contributed to Italy becoming a center of cultural exchange. If we have to say what is most important that the Renaissance has left, then it is man’s openness to the world and readiness to look at everything with wide-open eyes.

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