Renaissance - Overview - Goodbye-Art Academy

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was a time of rebirth an expansion of religious interpretation scientific discovery exploration of new lands and the flowering of the arts was a period between the 14th and 16th centuries that devalued the previous medieval era in favor of a new, brighter era that would draw inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman traditions a major paradigm shift occurred from the dark medieval times would produce innovative thinkers such as Nicholas Copernicus Destidarius Erasmus and the Renaissance artist who would become some of the most recognizable and beloved masters of En Around the world, the Renaissance took place mainly in Italy, but its innovation and ideas reached everywhere.

The medieval values ​​that came before encouraged obedience, faith, and authority. The Renaissance was a complete change and placed a great value on knowledge and personal responsibility. The art during this time is known for its linear perspective of realistic landscapes and its innovative dark lights and shadows known as kirskuro. The Renaissance began as a literary movement with the rediscovery of ancient texts, but was quickly taken up by the visual arts and sciences. Italy's mix between mathematical sciences. and art during this time led to the discovery of perspective in the arts. Perspective was an achievement that allowed a new space to be configured in the paintings.

Flattened stack space was replaced by mathematically precise images with dimension and depth. An example of a Renaissance painting before three. The dimensional perspective is angologotis the coronation of the virgin painted around 1370 the coronation of the virgin depicts six angels witnessing a central scene in which Jesus crowns his mother Mary after her death on earth. The painting is highly detailed and features bright pastel colors and a radiant gold background, however the depiction is overall flat and reminiscent of the two-dimensional religious illustrations found in medieval bibles. Masacho's Holy Trinity is the oldest surviving painting that uses linear perspective to accurately represent an architectural space a chapel where God the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist witnessed the crucifixion of Christ, the realism of the depth of the painted chapel would have impressed viewers at the time, just as 3D movies do today, the church, as one of the most powerful and richest institutions in italy, was able to commission artists to create sculptures and architecture that adorned and They served for the iconography and function of the church.

Christian saints were painted and sculpted to replace Byzantine mosaics and murals with Greek mythological images, but the direct influence of antiquity on form and technique was still visible using antiquity as a backdrop, artists began to incorporate and merge iconography Christian with the Greek. and roman symbols and images, this was most evident in botticelli's work during this time of artistic flowering. Italy saw the rise of powerful individuals and families. Italy was not a unified state during the time of the Renaissance and while the church had considerable power and wealth during this time the Medici family, owners of the largest bank in Europe, became the most powerful dynasty in the region, gaining their power through banking.

The Medici were such a wealthy dominant political force that they were able to commission hundreds of works of art and have a powerful influence. Within the church, prominent artists and thinkers sponsored by the Medici family include Masaccio, the painter who perfected and popularized one-point linear perspective, Fra Angelico Donatello, and even masters such as Galileo Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, although the Renaissance It was already spreading like wildfire throughout northern and western Europe. alone, he was aided by the power and influence of the Medici. Leonardo was the Renaissance man par excellence. He had skills as an artist, scientist and architect.

His interest in worldliness, beauty, love of learning, and the ideals of antiquity led him to create novel and impressive works. The best known work and one of the most famous paintings in the world is the Last Supper painted on the wall of the cafeteria of the Alliance of Santa Maria Delgrazi in Milan. The Last Supper portrays Jesus' last meal on earth with his disciples. The disciples are full of surprise and anguish because Jesus has just revealed to them that one of them will betray him and die. Leonardo's work remains in the canon of artwork, but due to his constant experimentation, his works are falling apart today and many of his ideas led to failure or never came to fruition.

Michelangelo was very much like Leonardo, but instead of exploring all avenues, he concentrated his skill on the arts, although his true passion and ingenuity was put into sculpture, he also designed exquisite architecture and made one of the most famous paintings of all times on the Sistine ceiling. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel took four years to complete between 1508 and 1512. The expansive ceiling features paintings of biblical stories such as Jonah and the Whale, Adam and Eve, the biblical prophets, Jesus' ancestors, and the creation of the world by God, which includes one of the most famous. paintings in the central point of the ceiling the creation of adam the creation of adam represents god, a gray-bearded man accompanied by angels who extend their finger towards the outstretched finger of adam to encourage him with life the sistine chapel is a testament to the skillful Michelangelo's depiction of intense emotion and advanced understanding of human anatomy Michelangelo had a distinctive style that combined delicacy with astonishing virtuosity.

A painter rival to Michelangelo's Raphael decorated the walls of the Catholic Pope's library in the Vatican between 1509 and 1511. One of these Vatican walls features the school of Athens. raphael's masterpiece the school of athens demonstrates raphael's mastery of linear perspective in its realistic depiction of an elegant cross-shaped building filled with philosophers artists and patrons in painting philosophers such as plato aristotle epicurus and pythagoras debate philosophical issues and Read philosophy books Statues of Apollo and Minerva feature prominently in the school, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationship between religion and philosophy The Renaissance was the beginning of an exploration of style and virtuosity that can be traced throughout The next three or four hundred years in the arts the names of Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo and Raphael still dominate today and their work has become a standard in world history.

The Renaissance launched a series of investigations and discoveries that radically changed the world and ushered in a new way of approaching the world that followed the Renaissance in Art was the Mannerist period. Mannerism continued the legacy of the Renaissance through the use of rich, bright colors, religious and mythological themes, and highly detailed works; However, he moved away from Renaissance realism and approached distorted figures that seek to emulate other worldly ideals, the individualist. approach the mathematical and scientific exploration of the

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continues to influence our world today the renaissance created a path that led to what we consider modernity and later to the contemporary world