Throughout the Renaissance, artists opted away from religious ideals their predecessors throughout the Middle Ages had emphasized, revamping concepts of the individual in their works. In particular, they focused on realistic depiction of new subject matters, deliberate creation using artistic abilities, and importance of human ideals.
Contrary to religious figures of the Medieval Ages’ art, in the Renaissance, patrons of the arts began to commission artists to create art about classical themes. The medieval ages were times when strong ties between artists and the church existed. Artists of the time, consequently, portrayed many religious figures, the Holy Land, and scenes from the Bible in a formalistic manner throughout their art. Artists …show more content…
Sculptors and artist such as Michelangelo reflected upon Roman art for inspiration in their work. For example, Michelangelo’s David, one of the most famous sculpture of the era, best demonstrates this new focus of artistic movement. In his work, Michelangelo depicts David, a biblical hero, nude standing in an off-balanced stance, resting upon his hips, with both his arms appears to be moving, thus giving his views the effect of a moving figure. David’s bodily features, such as heavily defined torso, enlarged arms, and beautiful facade, represents mannerism, the style of art commonly used in pieces of which the subject is a human being, where the artist deliberately uses unusual scaling of body parts in order to suggest the subject’s importance. The use of mannerism to express beauty, a concept which the Romans were obsessed with, symbolizes the importance of human ideals such as strength and youthful beauty of the age. Michelangelo, consequently, through the depiction of a …show more content…
In the Medieval Ages, it was a common belief that God taught everyone everything, and consequently he, through artists, had created art, and thus no sense of artistic gifts, nor geniuses existed among the people. Consequently, people did not recognize each individual artist’s value through his personal artistic ability. Many Renaissance artists, in contrary, thought otherwise. The introduction of new painting techniques and materials, such as perspective through usage of a vantage point by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna, incorporation of studies in anatomy and botany by Giotto, or oil-based paint, provided artists of the Renaissance the ability to evade themselves from the flat and stylized features of medieval art, and in replacement, realistically depicted their subject, albeit nature, animals, or human figures. The above-mentioned artistic techniques, many of which went on to change the artistics world for good, signifies each artist’s ability to deliberately create not only exceptional art pieces but influential change as well, thus proving the concept that the individual, not God, possessed ability to deliberately
Contrary to religious figures of the Medieval Ages’ art, in the Renaissance, patrons of the arts began to commission artists to create art about classical themes. The medieval ages were times when strong ties between artists and the church existed. Artists of the time, consequently, portrayed many religious figures, the Holy Land, and scenes from the Bible in a formalistic manner throughout their art. Artists …show more content…
Sculptors and artist such as Michelangelo reflected upon Roman art for inspiration in their work. For example, Michelangelo’s David, one of the most famous sculpture of the era, best demonstrates this new focus of artistic movement. In his work, Michelangelo depicts David, a biblical hero, nude standing in an off-balanced stance, resting upon his hips, with both his arms appears to be moving, thus giving his views the effect of a moving figure. David’s bodily features, such as heavily defined torso, enlarged arms, and beautiful facade, represents mannerism, the style of art commonly used in pieces of which the subject is a human being, where the artist deliberately uses unusual scaling of body parts in order to suggest the subject’s importance. The use of mannerism to express beauty, a concept which the Romans were obsessed with, symbolizes the importance of human ideals such as strength and youthful beauty of the age. Michelangelo, consequently, through the depiction of a …show more content…
In the Medieval Ages, it was a common belief that God taught everyone everything, and consequently he, through artists, had created art, and thus no sense of artistic gifts, nor geniuses existed among the people. Consequently, people did not recognize each individual artist’s value through his personal artistic ability. Many Renaissance artists, in contrary, thought otherwise. The introduction of new painting techniques and materials, such as perspective through usage of a vantage point by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna, incorporation of studies in anatomy and botany by Giotto, or oil-based paint, provided artists of the Renaissance the ability to evade themselves from the flat and stylized features of medieval art, and in replacement, realistically depicted their subject, albeit nature, animals, or human figures. The above-mentioned artistic techniques, many of which went on to change the artistics world for good, signifies each artist’s ability to deliberately create not only exceptional art pieces but influential change as well, thus proving the concept that the individual, not God, possessed ability to deliberately