Italian Renaissance Fresco Paintings

The Early vs. the High Renaissance - I've decided to go with Piero Della - Francesca Battista Sforza and Frederico Da Montefeltro vs. Raphael Agnelo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi. Paintings. Despite their many differences, there are also some similarities between the portraits made by these two artists. Discussing pg. 620 (20-31) Piero Della Francesca Battista Sforza and his wife and Frederico Da Montefeltro, an Italian artist during the Early Renaissance, Fifteenth Century in Uffizi, Florence. The artist showed the small panels that resembles Flemish painting in their detail luminosity, their record of surface and texture, and their vast landscapes. as mentioned on page (620) the reason why they are turned side ways is due to male in the portrait

The Italian Renaissance was a significant era for art, because of the many famous artists of extraordinary skill who changed the craft forever. One of the notable figures that emerged from this great timeframe was Giotto di Bondone. Giotto was born around 1266 in Vespignano, Italy. Very little is known about his life as a child. As a thirteen year old boy, he was said to be a prodigy, so he was able to become the apprentice of Florentine Cimabue, a master of art. While di Bondone was traveling, word of his talents spread like wildfire, and he became so well known that his gift was said to be better than that of his masters.. His earliest works were a series of frescoes on the Saint Francis Church of Assisi in the mid 1290’s. As Di Bondone continued to paint the walls of prominent churches and chapels, his talents becoming more and more well known. Three years before his death, the people appointed him the Magnus Magister (The Great Master), the head Florentine architect and the Chief of Public Works. Giotto was believed to be one of the key influences on the Renaissance and Gothic art, because of his trailblazing technique, palette, and style.

Ferrara is a small city in Italy, almost comparable in size to Portland, ME. This city is known for its many buildings from the renaissance era in which at the time was ruled by the Este family. The Este family is known for building the Diamanti Palace, as well as the famous Este Castle. The Castello Estense, also known as the Este Castle is a historical building in the center of the city of Ferrara, Italy. This medieval castle served as a fortress for the Este family during the late 1300s. This castle is an important part of Ferrara’s history because of the part it played in the growth of power that the Este family gained throughout the 13th century. Throughout the

During the Renaissance, the people of Europe experienced a rebirth of culture and study of classical antiquity. New ideas arose that transformed every aspect of European life. Beginning in Italy, the Renaissance spread northward to the rest of Europe. Italy had the advantage of not being hit by the Black Death or the Hundred Years War, in comparison to the rest of Europe, and therefore was able to trade to Asia and maintain prosperous cities during the Middle Ages. The Italians, as a result, had merchants who were proud of their success in business, which they believed was possible because of their merit as an individual. The merchants were able to fuel the Renaissance in Italy by commissioning artists and writers to produce specific works. Northern Europe still needed to recover from the Black Death and Hundred Years War to gain political and economic stability to have a Renaissance. While both the Italians and Northern Europeans went through a Renaissance, they experienced the Renaissance differently, and the similarities and differences between their experiences in terms of how they each developed the ideals of humanism, individualism, and secularism is evident in Renaissance artists’ works, specifically Michelangelo’s David and van Eyck’s The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin.

The Renaissance occurred in Europe between 1400 and 1600. This event began in Italy during the Medieval period and then expanded to the rest of Europe, marking the start of the Modern age. The Renaissance began in Florence Italy in the 14th century. It was a cultural movement that had an enormous impact in Europe during the early modern period. The Renaissance’s influenced politics, science, literature, art, philosophy, religion, music, and other aspects. Around the 13th century in Italy started the Renaissance’s art influence. Leonardo da Vinci, was known as the "Renaissance man," because of his art masterpieces and his studies in other fields during this time. Italy wasn’t a political concept in the

On the 10th of May 1508 I signed a contract to agree to fulfill Pope Julius’commission on painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I had bad feelings about thewhole thing from the day Julius commissioned me to paint instead of sculpt. I am anarchitect and sculptor not a fresco painter. It is not that I doubt my ability’s to completesuch a task, but I believe that there are other artists that would be much better suited for

Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation had really stirred the religious pot. In the early 1600’s, the Catholic Church responded with the Counter Reformation which propelled the Baroque movement and its artistic aim of making Catholic theology appeal to the masses. Biblical stories with drama and movement were some of the ways Baroque artists sought to engage the viewer. Baroque dominated most of the seventeenth century Europe and later developed into the Rococo style later during the eighteenth century. Begun in the 1700’s, the Rococo Era was art of the aristocracies for the aristocracies. It was technically flashy, but without deep thought or emotional drama, the Rococo celebrated the leisure activities of the upper class. The Rococo style is above all an expression of wit and frivolity. Rococo style signaled the shift from Rome to Paris as the new capital of culture and fashion in Europe. Both styles were influenced by political, social and religious factors, and there are profound differences between the two styles. For this essay, I chose to compare an Italian painting from the Baroque era with a French painting from the Rococo Era. The two paintings I chose to compare and analyze are Luca Giordano’s Martyrdom of St. Bartolomeo, and Jean-Marc Nattier’s Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance.

The Ideal City is the title given to three indistinguishable Italian Renaissance paintings with uncertain attribution. Being kept at three different spots they are most frequently referred to by their sites: The Ideal city of Urbino, Baltimore, and Berlin.

One of the greatest stories from the Italian Renaissance is the one of Fillipo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti. In 1401, the directors of the art of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral held a contest for artists; to create panels for a the doors on the east entrance (Kleiner, 560-2). Because the east doors faced the cathedral, the people thought it extremely prestigious to be able to participate in such a massive creation. After the first competition round, two finalists remained; Brunelleschi, an accomplished and experienced artist, and Ghiberti, a younger artist, but one with just as much talent. The two competitors were required to create a panel (or square) of Abraham readying to sacrifice Issac. Before reading which was which,

Three fascinating artists known as Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo marked the stylistic period of the Italy 1500 to 1600. These three men inspired the high Renaissance. Florence and Rome hosted the leading artist for that century. I will like to describe a painting of Raphael that caught my attention from reading the textbook; it is called the Marriage of the Virgin. In this painting the artists used linear perspective to create the illusion of space in the far back. He placed the vanishing point of the one point perspective in the doorway of the beautiful painted round house that is symmetrical on both side. The artists created the plaster in different sizes of rectangular shapes in red and cream colors to emphasize on the importance of linear perspective in the painting. If the painting was divided in two parts, the viewer will see that it is symmetric on both sides. There are thirteen figures on each side of the painting with the high priest being the middleman placed in the center of the human drama. He also put the figures in groups that relate to the part they each play in the artwork, this is known as a unified figure group in high

“No painter can paint well without a thorough knowledge of geometry” (qtd. in Butterfield 27). The Italian Renaissance is famous for its art which includes unique style of painting and sculpting, however, the Renaissance made significant remark on the use of scientific techniques which also can be considered as the influence of classical ideas. Although, classical ideas were not advanced like in the Renaissance, it provided the foundation for the Renaissance to revive it again. The Italian Renaissance transformed the manner of viewing the arts. Before, most people in Italy were bounded by religious thoughts and beliefs. Renaissance helped people to shift their mind and behavior towards the secular ideas, instead of vague ideology like

The 13th century for Italy marks the decline of classic structures, such as Notre-Dame de Paris, and the push towards more natural and flowing figures which were just inklings of what was to come in the Renaissance period . The first hint of change can be seen when comparing Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano, who both fashioned pulpits for a baptistery in Pisa. Nicola carved out three biblical inspired scenes (Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds) into three panels showing influences of medieval and classical styles . Giovanni designed a pulpit with nine panels with biblical inspired scenes showing influence of French gothic style . The main difference between the father and son ‘s art style, and conveniently it can

The Renaissance time period was home to many new ideas in art. This includes new artists bringing forth ideas that had yet to be discovered and made popular. New themes and types of art were also being brought forward during this period.

The paintings composed during the Romanesque era were also highly involved with religious subjects. Toman emphasized this by describing the different uses of paintings as well. He explained that paintings were very similar to sculptures. They were used to decorate the interior of churches just like sculptures. They also consisted of many of the same images as sculptures did such as saints and religious themes. But a distinct difference in the use of paintings was that they were used for book illuminations. They were used to illustrate many bibles and scared texts. A unique set of texts that developed from paintings were the Bestiaries. The Bestiaries revolved around religious ideas and themes. According to Toman, they were collections of animal

Art became well known back in the pre-historic era when cavemen painted pictures on the walls. But became really popular during the Renaissances when painters and sculptors took light. The Renaissances was a great time for art in Italy when land was being explored and people trying to get back to their ancient Greek and Roman roots. Writers, Scholars, and Artist alike were reawakened with inspiration from Ancient Greek and Roman art. The origin of the Renaissance was traced back to the late 13th , early 14th century known as the "Proto-Renaissance".