The Renaissance was a period in European history that lasted from the 14th to the 17th Century.
One of the distinguishing features of Renaissance art was its development of highly realistic linear perspective.
Characteristics of this period:
New interest in humans
Human bodies where curved and not very muscular
Portraiting humans naked became normal again
Oilpaint gained popularity
Colours where bright and plesant
Some famous artists from this period is:
Raphael:
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, most commonly known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".
My collage
The collage consists of several paintings from the Renaissance put together. The collage is supposed to look like it could have been painted this way.
Artworks I featured in my collage:
Raphael:
- Tansfiguration
- Scuola di Atene
- The Triumph of Galatea
Michelangelo:
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