Italian Renaissance painting

The Renaissance was a European cultural movement from the 14th to the 17th century. This era involved a renewal of learning, development of infrastructure, and a gradual reform of education. Numerous artists, poets, and scientists have influenced modern culture by developing new art concepts and innovative scientific discoveries. Translated to “rebirth,” it is believed that this time period was a prominent distinction from the Middle Ages. The Renaissance was a period distinct from the Middle…

Architects from the 14th century to the mid 18th century incorporate elements from ancient Greco- Roman architecture into their designs for social, cultural and political reasons. The movement to revive “ancient Greco-Roman culture” is known as the “Renaissance.” The epicentre of this movement was in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Florence. It began with the leading merchant republics studying and teaching ancient Greek and Latin sources of history, science, art, architecture and…

Renaissance Architecture A little about Renaissance Architecture The Renaissance architectural period is the period in from 15th century till the 17th century in Europe. Actually Renaissance architecture pursues or follows the Gothic architecture and. The Renaissance architecture can also be described as the renewal and development thought material and culture. Renaissance architecture was developed in Florence, Italy with Filippo Brunelleschi whom we will talk later, one of its finest…

printer’s apprentice and by 1902 he was an editor. He started publishing prints way before he owned his own printing and publishing house, named Bertieri & Vanesetti. He gained notoriety and fame after publishing the works of Gabriele D’Annunzio, an Italian writer, poet, journalist, playwright and soldier during World War I. D’Annunzio was associated with the Decadent Movement in his literary works and transformed from literary figure into a national war hero during World War I. The Decadent…

Raphael was a relevant and important artist who had many achievements and impacted the Renaissance. Raphael progressed and changed as an artist as he had more experiences and became more successful; this progression was important to his own success and the influence he had on art in the Renaissance. Raphael was born in Urbino, Italy and his father, Giovanni Santi, was an artist and taught him the basics of painting. He began working with Perugino in 1504, but when he later arrived in Florence,…

Age of Renaissance. The Renaissance was a rebirth of many cultural aspects that were thought to have been lost to the ever changing world. The Renaissance originated in Europe during the 14th century in Italy. This new age brought about many great changes in Italian intellectual, artistic, and even cultural life. Even though the Renaissance began in the 14th century, it wasn’t given an official title until the 16th century. A man named Giorgio Vasari was the first to give the Renaissance its…

High Renaissance period, it’s also one of the best during that time. Why is Michelangelo’s David culturally significant? What does its subject matter, theme or style tell us about the High Renaissance culture that produced it? The term Renaissance, literally means "rebirth" and is the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. (R.A. Guisepi) The High Renaissance…

even post-renaissance in the works of such famous artists as Vermeer; his painting, The Milkmaid, makes effective use of subtle one-point perspective to create believable space within the piece. Further on in time, the method continued to see effective use throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, such as in the works by Neoclassicist painter Jaques-Louis David, Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, and Realist Edward Hopper. As can be seen, throughout the history since the renaissance,…

Honor means in the dictionary high respect; esteem. My definition of honor is a role model of some kind that you have high respect for. Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, was born in 1170 in Pisa which is a city of Italy. He was the son of Guilielmo and Alessandra. One of his accomplishments was the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers where the last two numbers equal the next number. Like 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on. You can calculate it by this formula, F(n)…

this period, rings were worn on both hands and in large numbers, both before and after the juncture. Although rings were worn in large numbers, the ones worn by women were much more delicate and small compared to the rings worn by men. Renaissance The Renaissance started in the 15th…