Scottish Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance was a time of great cultural changes in the art around the world. You can notice these changes throughout the art and the architectural structures developed during that time. In my writing assignment, I will not only go into detail but also analyze three vivid paintings all done by Lorenzo Lotto. The three painting I have chosen are “The Stoning of Saint Stephen”, “The Entombment”, and “Saint Dominic Reviving Napoleone Orsini”. I choose these paintings from the art…

The Renaissance brought out the inspiration for the humanist scholars to pursue new ideals of thinking through their time in the arts, philosophy of the human nature, and expansion of education throughout the cities. Pursuers of greater knowledge sought to establish an identity amongst the people of their, hopefully, securing them in the roots of history books and translations worldwide. Painters of the Renaissance like Leonardo Da Vinci, developed a visual aid on the outlook of human…

From 1450 all the way into the 18th century, the early modern period is understood and seen as the formation of the Renaissance, many scientific and technological discoveries and reformation. There were many discoveries of new lands, machines and cultures which became one of the main reasons on how society today has improved. The Renaissance started as a cultural movement based on the intellectual basis of its own version of Humanism, where Man is the measure of all things. This idea became…

Giambattista Bodoni (b. 1740-1813, Saluzzo Piedmont, Italy) was an Italian printer and a designer of typefaces still used today. He was a third generation printmaker who modeled his type designs after Pierre Simon Fournier, "...but later felt inspired by the typography of John Baskerville" (Famous Graphic Designers). He was at the front of industrialized print making. The Bodoni typeface, according to Bodoni: The History of Being Awesome, is, "...an easily recognizable Romantic typeface with a…

The Middle Ages had been a time period following the fall of the Roman Empire, and a dark and “barbarous” age according to many humanists in the Renaissance Era. The Middle Age began without any idea of the education, politics, and intellectual of the Greeks and Romans. Some people in the Renaissance Era believed this era to be a “awakening” from the Middle Ages, and a complete revival of the Greek and Roman lifestyle. Politically, humanists replaced religion from politics, and justified their…

Canterbury Tales Humans perceive things in a certain way. These perceptions are shaped by processes such as drives and expectations. One might create an image of someone or something, but that image might be completely imaginative. The Canterbury Tales’ Prologue tells the story of certain group of people during the Medieval Period. In the Prologue, characters’ traits and personalities show a contrast with those who actually lived during the Medieval Period. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer…

“The Medieval Mind” explains: “Intellectual life had vanished from Europe,” (3). In “The Shattering”, “But Luther knew he could be more effective… if he addressed his people in simple German…” (166), he tells of a turn of events that lead to the Renaissance and lastly, Magellan himself is explained in “One Man Alone”: “He had never before been reckless, imprudent, careless, or forgetful...But he had not been a soldier of Christ then,” (276). All of which explain the most simple main ideas of…

The European Renaissance was a cultural movement that lasted from the 14th to the 16th centuries. It was a cultural and social change revolution, that was characterized as ingenuity, imagination and creativity. This time of the year is known for the contribution to today’s society where many new artists find inspiration from Donatello, Raffaello Sanzio, Sandro Botticelli among other great contributors. Also during that time Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Leonardo di ser Piero da…

Artists of the Renaissance era were revered for their sacred mastery of art, which caused them to be as equally high in the social structure as those of royalty. The general public of the time viewed artists as nothing short of gifted geniuses in their respective craft. The masterminds of the period, lasting roughly from 14th - 16th century AD, climbed the social ladder through their recreation of Latin Literature and of the figurative arts.¹ Each initially had no reputation or fame to any…

The Baroque period was a magnificent era. Filled with new ideas and simply extravagant art. From the alluring paintings drawing you into their beauty to the sculptures that appear as real people. The Baroque period was sincerely a grandiose time. A honorable representation of this time would be Bernini’s David and Pozzo’s Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius. These two works of art are similar in only trivial ways such as they both have a religious background. Bernini’s David is the representation of…