Petit Palais Museum in Avignon

n a didactic way, the paintings of the numerous italian schools are exposed in a chronological order. The first artwork in the 13th century are srtrongly influenced by the Bysantine traditions.

he themes represented on the paintings come essentially from a religious inspiration. At the junction of Middle-Age and Renaissance, as time goes by, room after room, the characters loose their symbolic rigidity to embody expressive human beeings with delicate figures, as the background, open by the discovery of the perspective, is filled by numerous profane details where the painters expresses his talent and imagination.

he different Italian Schools are present in the Museum : Sienna, Florence, Venice, Bologna, each one with their own style, show the extraordinary cultural agitation and fermentation in Italy during the 15th century.

n Italy during those 14th and 15th centuries, the painting expresses the mutation of the Occident to Modern Ages. The evolution of painting expresses the decline of the traditional ideological frames, under our eyes rises a vivid sensitivity, humanism, announcing a new erea.