Compare Northern Renaissance Art To The Landscape Art Of China

The transition from Middle ages to Renaissance for art changed dramatically. The Art in the Middle ages was usually 2 dimensional and had a religious subject. When the renaissance came around art changed a lot. New artistic styles would echo the broader movements and interest of the new age. The art produced in the renaissance was more 3d and focused more on individuals and landscapes (Doc A). Paintings such as the Mona Lisa are what the Renaissance focused on, as well as landscapes such as the wedding at Cana. The works of art changed man’s view of the world

Another way that the renaissance change man’s view was the arts between the middle ages and renaissance. The middle ages art contained religious themes (angels in the left corner of the painting). Man’s view was changing by emotion of the pictures. The renaissance art was three-dimensional, very detailed (landscaping).

The Renaissance was a distinct time period from the middle ages, due to many factors. Some of the factors include, the artist's’ thinking, the style of art, and architecture, and the advancement of education.

As I mentioned before, Northern European supporters desired art which contained earthly subjects more so than religious subject matter. Paintings that depicted everyday life were now more popular, as were paintings, which depicted moral messages to teach/tell a story. An example of a moralizing painting is Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. The left panel represents God and Adam and Eve, as for the central panel is a broad panorama of sexually engaged nude figures, animals, oversized fruit and stones. The right panel is a hells cape and portrays the torments of damnation. Another well-known landscape painter was Peter Bruegel the Elder. His art, such as Return of the Hunters. This particular painting is one in a series of six works, five of which still survive, that portrays different times of the year. This painting was one of six large paintings; each of them was over five feet

The general perception of an ideal male and female type changed with each passing time period. This was evident in the portrayal of male and female characters in Northern and Italian Renaissance art. In the Northern Renaissance, two pieces of work stood out in their depiction of the ideal male or female. The first of these is the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck. This painting is very representative of the ideal female type during the Northern Renaissance.

For example, the Mona Lisa is painted by the Northern Renaissance style. You could see that by looking at the highly detailed style of the figure. Mona Lisa’s face is especially detailed; it almost looks real. The artist of the Henry Clay and Theodore Roosevelt political cartoon focuses more on the background rather than on the structure of the faces. However, Leonardo de Vinci focuses more on the structure of Mona’s face instead of the background and that’s why the paining looks very simple and

Art was similar between the Italian Renaissance and the northern Renaissance as they both imitated nature through emotional intensity through religious scenes; however, Northern Artistic Renaissance focused more on empirical observation and accurately paying attention to details of visual reality. The Italian Artistic Renaissance, meanwhile, accurately portrayed visual reality through proportion, perspective, and human anatomy. Italian artists portrayed mostly classical mythology, while Northern artists portrayed mostly domestic interiors and portraits. Literature was similar between the Italian Renaissance and the northern Renaissance as they both had standards of literature that portrayed the belief that it was an individual's duty to participate

Mainly, the Northern Renaissance happened in regions of Eastern Europe. Throughout that time, there was an importance on the lives of peasants. A significant importance was put on living a simple life. As a result, artists like Pieter Bruegel the Elder did paintings such as "Haymaking." It showed regular peasants conducting out their usual day to day duties. Remember that the Northern Renaissance came in later.

I would say that I did not have a favorite piece of artwork this term. But I did like some of the Northern Renaissance artwork out of the other eras that we went over.

These early paintings depicted the sublime elements of land and nature (Cantrill & Oravec, 1996; Elliot, 2006; Sandweiss, 1991). Paintings of the Roman Empire exhibited landscapes with a foreground, middle ground, and background similar to positions on a theatrical stage (i.e. upstage, middle stage and down stage). The foreground typically contained a large tree or side of a cliff, called a coulisse. The middle ground depicted a human or animal, sometimes a river or even a ruin to lead the viewer’s eye into the scene. The background contained the horizon framed by the objects of the foreground. Key to these paintings was the harmonious coexistence of humans and all of Earth’s inhabitants. Near the end of medieval times, painters applied the rules of math and architecture to render the principles of perspective to accurately represent depth and perspective with a true vanishing point. Renaissance painters revered classical Greek ideals in their paintings, a practice that continues even today. In the 17th and 18th century, landscape was the backdrop to the larger biblical or mythical stories depicted in paintings. Paintings also served as records of instrument and painters routinely were commissioned to accompany British, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish explorers as they colonized the western world. With colonization, these paintings reinforced status as well as expansion of one’s

In the eighteenth century in Japan, landscape painting emerged as an incredibly popular subject, coinciding with an increase in access to inexpensive multicolor woodblock prints. Previously, landscape painting was long regarded as a major subject of Chinese and Korean painting. Japanese landscape artists also took inspiration from Dutch landscape engravings imported into Japan when the ruling Tokugawa government was attempting to enforce its isolationist policy. However, Japanese printmakers drastically transformed the compositions and coloration of these Western models of landscape painting.

Artists painted just enough to get the message across. Using icons, and frontal figures with no depth or dimension. For example, artwork from Byzantine had no realistic detail to it. It was more about the icon symbolism and the story behind it. The Renaissance was more about paying attention to the little details, giving them meaning, and a story.

It is not unusual to associate the Renaissance with Italy, where art was rapidly becoming more and more realistic as artists embraced the Roman style of their past. This trend, however, was by no means exclusive to Italy. In Northern European countries, other artists were also developing their technique. And, because they had no access to Roman or Greek sculptures, their art changed in a different way. Artists began to pay closer attention to the subjects of their work. Van Eyck mastered this skill, and his Ghent Altarpiece shows his ability to perfect even the tiniest details in his work. Albrecht Dürer’s The Great Piece of Turf shows how artists began to use messiness and uneven patterns as a way to achieve realism. Durer walked the fine

During the Renaissance, all that changed. Artists then included an emphasis on human beings and the environment, which shown that this is indication of changes in their culture at the time. "Renaissance individualism and realism found their greatest and most lasting representation in the visual arts" (Walker 77).

The renaissance or “rebirth” was a cultural awakening which spanned from the fourteenth to sixteenth century. A growing interest in humanist traits and classical ideas heavily influenced the art during the renaissance. A growing community of artists provided much needed competition for their profession. The renaissance introduced many different and modern ideas but also remained obedient to classical belief. The unique art of the renaissance spread throughout Europe. Northern European art differed tremendously from Italian art.