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Rennaisance Art - Research Paper

Rennaisance Art

The term renaissance, describing the period of European history from the early 14th to the late 16th century, is derived from the French word “rebirth”. This period is described as the revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and an intensified concern with the secular life--interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual. The renaissance period in art history corresponds to the beginning of the great western age of discovery and exploration, when a general desire developed to examine all aspects of nature and the world. Art, during this period, became valued -- not merely as a vehicle for religious and social identity, ...

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and more permanent than that actually found in nature. Artists such as Donatello in sculpture, Masaccio in painting and Fillipo Brunelleschi in architecture were part of this period. Masaccio for instance gave figures the “illusion” of live beings when characters and reactions were individualized. He also made use of perspective by exploring linear (a vanishing point), and atmospheric perspective (effects produced from a single light source). He also made use of gradations or light and darkness (Chiaroscuro) to give illusions of weight, substance and bulk to the bodies.
The art of high renaissance, however sought a general, unified effect or pictorial representation or architectural composition, increasing the dramatic force and physical presence of a work or art. Also, the culmination and fulfillment of the previous period when the problems of perspective, light and shade, foreshortening, space composition, painting in oil, texture and movement were solved. A few artist of ...

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Added: 8/24/2007 01:01:18 AM
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 552
Pages: 3

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