history

1. Renaissance Art
Painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of
European is call the Renaissance. It also becomes Italy unique
style about 1400. Renaissance art also know as a royalty of
ancient traditions. The transition of Europe from the medieval
period to the Early modern age is marked by Renaissance art.
By 1500, Renaissance style succeed and as late Renaissance art
development, it has its own characteristic in every region.
Late 13th
and early 14th
centuries in Italy, Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano (sculptors) show the
classic tendencies (influenced by the familiarity of artist with ancient Roman sarcophagi). Pulpits of the
Baptistery and Cathedral of Pisa are the masterpiece of them. Giotto (a painter) developed a way of
unprecedentedly naturalistic, 3D, lifelike and classicism figurative painting. His greatest work is the cycle of the
Life of Christ.
The painters in early Netherlandish art included Jan van Eyck, his brothers.
Their paintings develop uniquely without influenced. The style of painting grew
directly out of the Medieval arts of tempera painting, stained glass and book
illumination. They used oil paint to paint. the Netherlandish painters did not
approach the creation of a picture through a framework of linear perspective and
correct proportion. A medieval view of hierarchical proportion of religious
symbolism is maintained by them.
During the early Renaissance in Italy, the first Renaissance artist emerge in 1401 –
Brunelleschi, the most popular architect. Moreover, he also created a variety of
sculptural works. Perspective studies of him have influenced the painter become the
greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance. Masaccio was the painterly descendant of
Giotto, continue the trend towards solidity of form and naturalism of face and gesture.
Several panel paintings are completed by Masaccio and managed to influence later
painters. Perspective and light in painting was particular concern. Uccello was trying to
achieve an appearance of perspective that according to Vasari. The result can be seen in his fresco cycle of The
History of the True Cross. In Naples, Antonello da Messina starts using oil paints for portraits and religious.
In the high Renaissance in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was to further perfect the aspects of pictorial art. His
adoption of oil paint as his primary media meant that he could depict light and its effects on the landscape and
objects more naturally and with greater dramatic effect than had ever been done before. Michelangelo, his
painting or sculpture never show interest in natural object expect human body. He has a perfect technique.
In early Renaissance in France, the artist always associated with courts, providing illuminated
manuscripts and portrait. There were some artists at this date who painted famed altarpieces that
are stylistically quite unique from both Italian and Flemish. Religious painting of Giovanni
Bellini represent the high Renaissance in Northern Italy.
In German, Hieronyms Bosch was a painter who employed the type of fanciful forms that were
often utilized to decorate borders and letters in illuminated manuscripts, combining plant and
animal forms with architectonic ones.