petrarch paintings

More than anything else, Renaissance philosophers like Petrarch, and later, Ficino, contemplated death. “Yet the more occupied with death, the more these humanists thought, built, wrote, painted, sang.”7. Death became their...


Petrarch: Father of the


Petrarch and Boccccio


Petrarch Painting


Petrarch Image


Oil Painting Reproduction


Man with a Petrarch

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was glorified as Dante's Beatrice or Petrarch Laura, for her confidence in him and to painting, for her patience, which stood out love, and unspoken them, it's the mystery of the Mona Lisa smile,...
Mona Lisa | NAESC 2010

Many of the sonnets have the freshness and originality of early Renaissance paintings, but these death sonnets remind us that religious themes were central to those paintings too. Petrarch's poems demand repeated reading if we are to...
petrarch paintings