He, too, was breaking away from tradition because he viewed art differently than others sis. In his book, Michelangelo, William Lace states that Michelangelo was responsible for bringing realism to art and "freeing it from the stiff formality of the preceding centuries" (Lace 7). Michelangelo wanted his art to appear as realistic as possible. His goal was to create something that suggested authentic emotion. In addition to this, Michelangelo also saw the artist differently than others did as well. He wanted to bring forth from the stone what was already inside it. Here we see an artist that sees himself as a part of the artistic process. This sort of though was new and it inspired many artists of the day. What we find so important about this new line of thinking is the freedom that the artists felt when approaching it. They felt no restraint and their freedom is demonstrated in their work. It is also worth noting that this type of thinking also paved the way the public viewed artists, according to Lace. Prior to Michelangelo, artists were not held in any special regard. Michelangelo's popularity and his influence in the arts changed this. The public became aware that artists were capable of doing something that not all men could do. Even Michelangelo knew this and stated that artists were extraordinary and should never be "judged by ordinary standards" (8). One look at Michelangelo's David reveals just how the artist wanted to sculpt something that was real and could also compel the viewer to feel something real as well. Pieta is another sculpture that reveals Michelangelo's expertise. Leonardo di Vinci is another premier artist of the Italian Renaissance. His work is like other artists of his time in that he was introducing new ways of thinking...
This did not include just art. Di Vinci also delved into the sciences. He is the person most historian point to as the forerunner of the "new, experimental style known as mannerism" (Craig 440). Mannerism can be seen as an extension of the Italian Renaissance; it became popular in the Late Renaissance and it opened doors for the "strange and even the abnormal and gave freer reign to the subjectivity of the artist" (440). Again, we see the notion of freedom as a motivating factor to explore art, science, and existence.
I had a lot to learn from Giorgione. Having been taught in the fresco technique by Ghirlandaio, I was not acquainted much with oil painting and did not truly know the mastery of this type of painting. How to mix the oil and the paints so that one was in enough quantity? More so, how to use enough oil so as to obtain the right amount of darkness or pale
Technology has now reached such dizzying heights that it attempts to give us here and now the Empyrean that Galileo's telescope neglected to find. How has it worked? Perhaps that should be the subject of another discussion. All the same, it is interesting to note that modern science is still attempting to explain the mysteries of the universe that in the medieval world were simply accepted on faith as
Renaissance Art The relationship between patronage and art During Early and High Renaissance of Italy, it was through the vehicle of patronage was the key fashion in which an artist established his artistic identity as well as established himself economically. For instance, in considering Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," it is important to remember that this vision is not an individualistic picture of a an artist living outside of his society. Rather,
Leonardo's Last Supper (1495-1498) does something very different from the other Renaissance portrayals of this scene from the Gospel. Unlike Andrea del Castagno's or Domenico Ghirlandaio's Last Supper versions, Leonardo's is at once more earthly (neither Christ nor the Apostles wear halos) and chaotic than the others -- and yet at the same time it is substantially more divine and imposing in its stark simplicity. This paper will trace the
Art History -- High Renaissance raphael, da vinci & MICHELANGELO: THE SUPREME MASTERS OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE Within a thirty year span, beginning approximately in 1495, the city of Rome replaced Florence as the Italian seat of artistic pre-eminence. A series of powerful and ambitious popes, most notably Julius II and those associated with the rich and powerful De Medici family run by Cosimo De Medici and later on by Lorenzo De Medici,
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