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Renaissance Art and Its Legacy

Renaissance art emerged as a distinct style in 1400 in Italy, parallel to developments in other fields like philosophy, literature, music, and science. It was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and deeper landscapes. Painters depicted realistic human figures and sculptures featured naturalistic portraits during this period of artistic experimentation that brought humans and figures to the forefront like in Greek art.

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Renaissance Art and Its Legacy

Renaissance art emerged as a distinct style in 1400 in Italy, parallel to developments in other fields like philosophy, literature, music, and science. It was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and deeper landscapes. Painters depicted realistic human figures and sculptures featured naturalistic portraits during this period of artistic experimentation that brought humans and figures to the forefront like in Greek art.

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Renaissance art

is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of the period


of European history, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in
about 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in
philosophy, literature, music, and science.

Renaissance
The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural,
artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the
Middle Ages.
Characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective
and deeper landscape.
Painters depicted real – life figures.
Sculptures were naturalistic portraits of human being.
Architecture during this period was characterized by its
symmetry and balance.

Classical Greeks
Harmonous development of the person through a sound
mind ( athletics )

Italian renaissance
- Era of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the
birth of secular art.
- The focus was on realistic and humanistic art.

Renaissance period ( 1400 – 1600 )


- Period of economic progress
- Enthusiasm for the study of ancient philosophy and artistic
values.
- The period was a period of artistic experimentation. It
brought man into a full view just like the human figure in
greek art.

Famous Renaissance Artworks and Artists

Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni

- 1475 – 1564
- An Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet.
- The greatest living artists in his lifetime/one of the greatest
artists of all time.

PIETA – seated Madonna holding christ’s body in


her arms.

Bacchus – god of wine Moses

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