RenaissancePosted by nshirodkar on August 23rd, 2010 There was a great cultural movement roughly between 14th and 17th centuries called Renaissance. It started in Florence, Italy, and later spread throughout Europe. Renaissance was a movement about learning based on classical sources, developing linear perspective in painting, and a slow but wide range of educational redevelopment. This intellectual change has resulted in a view which looks at Renaissance as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern era. Although Renaissance encompassed all forms social and political changes, it is best known for the development in the field of arts and the valuable contributions made by the multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who were inspiration behind the term "Renaissance man".Renaissance was concerned about the characteristics like humanism, art, science, religion, and self-awareness. One of the remarkable features of Renaissance art was that it developed a highly realistic linear perspective. This development of perspective was part of a wider trend directed towards realism in the arts. To that end, artists also developed innovative techniques, with the study of light, shadow, and, even human anatomy, for which Leonardo da Vinci is famous. Behind these alterations in artistic method, was renewed desire to reveal the beauty of Nature, and to unveil the ultimate truth of aesthetics, with the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael which represented artistic pinnacles that were going to be imitated by other artists. Sandro Botticelli, working in Florence for the Medici, Donatello, who was also a Florentine and Titan in Venice were some of the other notable artists. At the same time, another specifically vibrant artistic culture developed, in the Netherlands, the work of Hugo van der Goes and Jan van Eyck which influenced the development of painting in Italy, both technically with the entry of oil paint and canvas and stylistically in terms of naturalism in depiction. Later on, the work of Pieter Brueghel the Elder inspired the artists to represent themes of everyday life. Filippo Brunelleschi was the foremost in the field of architecture, in studying the remains of classical ancient structures and with reinvented knowledge from the 1st-century writer Vitruvius and the fully growing discipline of mathematics, formulated the Renaissance style which improved and emulated classical forms. The dome of Florence Cathedral of Brunelleschi was the major feat of engineering. The church of St. Andrew built by Alberti in Mantua is claimed to be the first building to demonstrate this. The most distinguished architectural work of the High Renasissance was the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica, which was a result of combined skills of Donato Bramante, Rapahel, Michelangelo, Mederno and Sangallo. Like it? Share it! More by this author |