Italian Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that revived the glory of Greece and Rome. New ideas started flowing through Europe and beautiful works in Art, Literature and Architecture were being built. Perhaps the most famous image of the Renaissance is the colorful and intricate paintings and works of art. Renaissance Art had many characteristics that made it stand out from the previous Medieval Art style of painting. Europe had just suffered the Black Death and several wars were taking place…

It is important to understand Renaissance means Rebirth or Revitalization. “Spanning roughly the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries no longer seems to be the abrupt onset of the modern era, suddenly shining forth in the fifteenth century to illuminated medieval darkness with the rekindled light of classical antiquity.” (Ott, 2012) During this period Italy was able to turn the “emphasis slowly away from the ideas and values of supernatural orientation and towards those concerned with…

Throughout the Italian Renaissance numerous, revolutionary masterpieces were created. Jupiter and Io by Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Venus of Urbino by Titian, Mars and Venus United by Love by Paolo Veronese, and Sleeping Venus by Giorgione and Titian (Titian had only aided in completing the painting after his master, Giorgione, had passed away with the painting incomplete) are just a few examples of the mastery crafted by Renaissance artists. All of the pieces listed previously share some…

Queen's house, designed by architect Inigo Jones was the first pure classical building in Britain and brought a revolution into the architectural scene. Inigo Jones was inspired by his travels in Italy and especially his second visit in 1613 where he visited major cities and buildings and compared theory with practice, from then on his style of architecture took a new form. I want to explore the originality of Queen's house, how much of the design came from Inigo Jones the architect and how much…

In Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King discusses the life of the renowned Renaissance architect and creator of the dome that covers the Santa Maria del Fiore, Filippo Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi was a key figure during the Renaissance, where a well rounded education was promoted. This education made people well-versed in reading, writing, math, science, and other academic topics. This was also known as humanism, and it involved studying Greek and Latin sources, being less bound to tradition, and…

“O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.” With his allegorical writing style, Dante Alighieri revolutionized literature in the renaissance period with masterpieces such as Dante’s Inferno. Dante Alighieri was born on May 21, 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was born to a wealthier family and had a good education as he learn poetry, philosophy, and many other literature skills he used in his writing. From the outside, his life looked perfect though his mother…

The art during the Renaissance and “High Renaissance” was the start to break away from art being made for religious purposes. However, that is not to say that all art during that period was non-religious art. German artist, Lucas Cranach, was still very involved the painting of religious pieces that told stories from the Bible. “A Portrait of a Lady of the Saxon Court as Judith With the Head of Holofernes”, tells the story of Judith going into the tent of Holofernes and seducing him while he…

The artist that was once forgotten after his death for many years, Piero Della Francesca, is now considered one of the key Early Renaissance artists. Piero Della Francesca had a big impact on the development of the Italian Renaissance because of the use of a variety of techniques that enabled him to produce realistic looking paintings. In 1416, Piero Della Francesca was born in a small town, Sansepolcro in Italy. Piero was the son of Benedetto de' Franceschi and Romana di Perino da Monterchi.…

The Renaissance was a period in history that took place in 14th through 17th century Europe following the Middle Ages. The term Renaissance means “rebirth”, and the period was primarily a time of revival of classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline. There was also an explosion of art during this time. The new birth of resurrection known as the "Renaissance" is usually considered to have begun in Italy in the fourteenth century. There were many famous artists during…

The Renaissance was known as the time of change and prosperity. Renaissance is a French word that actually translates into rebirth in English. It changed the way people thought, opened new opportunities, changed art and architecture, and enlarged the population in Florence. After the Black Death and before the Renaissance people had lost many loved ones and were paranoid, they decided to go to the place that would give them hope; the Catholic church. The church told them that after death they…