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At Cimabue's school takes place the artistic education of Giotto, the most important artist of the 1300's, author of the Campanile (Bell tower) of Florence and of the frescoes of the High Basilica of Saint Francisco in Assisi. The princes of the ' 400 and the ' 500 entrust painters, sculptors, architects the task to make residences and cities more attractive. Likewise is the papal curia: for which in the first half of the ' 500 work Raffaello and Michelangelo, sculptor (the Mercy, Basilica of San Pietro), architect (Cupola of San Pietro), painter (Sistine Chapel). The Renaissance painting, as well as the literature, rediscovers the topics of the classical nature: in the painting the Birth of Venere (Gallery of the Uffizi, Florence) Botticell represents the goddess of love that was born from the foam of the sea.