High Renaissance

When speaking to the the humanistic movement during the Middle Ages, historian Martin McGuire stated, "It set a basic pattern for the future". After the devastation of the Black Plague from the late 1200s to the mid 1300s, Europe was in great need of rebuilding both socially and economically. Many people turned to religion, while others strayed away from the spiritual outlook, believing that the solutions to the world’s problems lie in human thought and action rather than divine intervention.…

In Italy was the main development where these renaissance styles started becoming the notorious sgraffito. One reason for the development of sgraffito in Italy was that they wanted a nice white surface to decorate with for plates, but there were no sturdy resources to use at the time that were white, so…

was a byproduct of a special period in human history: the Renaissance. Including the influential invention of the flushing toilet, following the war-stricken period of Medieval Europe, the Renaissance was a time of great-accelerated change that gave rise to new, previously unexplored concepts, such as alchemy and anatomy, and artistic innovation. Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, a piece of art dating back to the High Italian Renaissance, was an especially notable piece from this period.…

Michelangelo's David VS. Bernini’s David Looking back throughout the history of art. It is clear to see how one era of artists influenced another. For example the high renaissance had artist that many would consider masters of their craft. Artist like Michelangelo who was known to be a man of many talents. Michelangelo’s sculpture of David is said to have represented the pride of the people in the city the florences.It was meant to be a symbol for liberty, the front of the city hall of Florence…

“Philosophy” fresco, also known as the “School of Athens,” is culturally significant due to its High Renaissance depiction of philosophical ideals during a time of much innovation and dueling intellect. The fresco was painted between 1509 and 1511 for the papal apartments at the Vatican. This painting converges history’s greatest philosophers and scientists. It represents the rebirth of ideas during the renaissance as a time where theorists could debate different intellectual theories and…

the era as a whole. The early modern Era was driven by money, the ideas of humanism, and the secularism that developed from the Middle Ages, influencing the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Age of Absolutism, the Reformation, and the Age of Reason. Money was a root cause of the five segments of the Early Modern Era. In the Renaissance, a period of rebirth of classical culture and upsurge of art, merchants believed that they could attain wealth and status by supporting artists. Without…

and The Roman Colosseum. These four “best of the best” works express a multitude of cultural significance, symbolism and they each express an idea that can resonate with and prevail throughout present and future generations. The Mona Lisa is a renaissance…

Michelangelo was these IB learner profiles because everything he did was thought off before done. Michelangelo had a very big influence on Art in the Renaissance. He did lots of very important jobs for very important people such as the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II. Michelangelo used an astonishing technique that goes by the name of fresco. This technique consists of mixing dry sand grains and lime plaster…

1. Among all events during the Renaissance, the most crucial and fundamental event is the invention of printing. Because the countries is closely related to each other throughout history, the trade between countries is frequent. That makes the information travel fast, but before printing was invented, the information carries by the form of oral, which is highly possible to lose in memories through time. With the invention of printing, the information and knowledge can communicate effectively…

On a stormy night in 1475, the prominent Dominican friar and reformer Girolamo Savonarola wrote to his father about the current situation that was affecting his great city of Florence. Savonarola claim of how there was great misery in the world, and how wickedness within the city was coming to a boiling point. The streets of Florence were filled with men whose pride, adulteries, idolatry, placed a vile curses upon the city, in which the world had deteriorated into such a state of chaos.…