Renaissance

Renaissance

Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points

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Renaissance

 

• It was much more than a crucial period in the history of art: it was a process of change in the attitude of the human being as regards life and the universe. The medieval concept of life in the fear of God and the omnipresence of the Church changed direction towards a revalorization of man and humanism. It started in the 14th century, and it developed fundamentally during the 15th and 16th centuries, periods that are called Quattrocento and the Cinquecento.
• Man was the center of the universe (anthropocentrism), the human figure was more natural, and space was more real (there was more concern about perspective and depth). And Christian history started to be told from a more human point of view (the protagonists were not idealized so much, but they experienced sufferings that made them closer to the ordinary man).
• Standards of beauty and harmony of the works of Classic Antiquity were admired. (Idealized beauty, related to the Good)
• Nature was faithfully represented, anatomy studies and proportions were an example of it. Nude appeared and the portrait acquired importance. Canvas and oil painting were used extensively what improved the possibilities of adding details and give more realism to works.
• There are some differences to bear in mind in two places: in Italy, in the north of the Alps, there was more concern for the illusion of space, the perspective. And in Germany and Flanders, detailed precision was searched for.

 

Representative artists:

Italy: Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Giotto, Perugino, Da Vinci, Del Sarto, Michelangelo, Raphael, Tiziano.

Germany and Flanders: Altdorfer, Durero, Holbein the Younger, Cranach the Elder, Van der Weyden, Van Eyck.

 

Image: The Virgin of the Rocks (1492/1508). Version found in the National Gallery of London. Leonardo da Vinci.

 

Recommended links:

Humanism.

Characteristic Elements of Renaissance Painting.

The Four Greatest Painters of the Italian Renaissance.

Artistic Movements from Classical Antiquity to Rococo.

Fra Angelico and the Early Renaissance.

Piero della Francesca, the Master of Perspective.

“The Feminist of the Renaissance.”

The Stanze of Raphael and the High Renaissance.

Lady with an Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci.

The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli.

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