Comparing Medieval Art with Renaissance Art By: Noor 1
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Michelangelos Art (14751564) 2 "Detail From The Creation Of
Adam by Michelangelo "David by MICHELANGELO Buonarroti"
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Renaissance Characteristics Michelangelo was a painter,
sculptor, poet and architect. ("Mongol Elements in Western Medieval
Art") He expressed a lot of renaissance characteristics in his work
such as, painting nature, nudity and expressing human emotion. The
fact that he had been talented in more than one field meant that he
was a renaissance man. Michelangelo was also a humanist. ("Short
Biography of Michelangelo) He was more drawn to people with softer
emotions and he was compelled to embrace his talents and allow
himself to focus on human nature and the influence of religion that
seemed to impact everyone. He was also apart of the Medici family.
However he did not take part in their banking business. 3
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Renaissance Characteristics reflected in Art An example is
reflected onto this sculpture of David. Even though it is a
religious sculpture it portrayed in a humanistic way. Michelangelo
wanted to demonstrate the transition between childhood and
adulthood (puberty). The sculpture expresses strength, confidence
and curiosity. Those three characteristics were not seen in the
medieval time because they were not encouraged. Works of art in the
dark ages were only focused and centered on religion. 4 ("David by
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti")
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Holbein The Younger 1497-1543 5 ("Christina of Denmark - Hans
Holbein the Younger - WikiArt.org") WikiArt.org ("Hans Holbein the
Younger Biography")
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Renaissance Characteristics Holbein was also a renaissance man,
he made; prints, murals, stained glass and pen and ink
illustrations. His main focus was on portraits of people. This
differentiates the renaissance art and the medieval art because
Holbein took the time to paint people more than he painted
religious inspired paintings. Holbein was greatly influenced by
humanists. He was very intrigued by Thomas More, which he then
painted a portrait of. ("Christina of Denmark - Hans Holbein the
Younger - WikiArt.org")WikiArt.org 6
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Renaissance Characteristics reflected in Art Holbein was drawn
to new and fresh ideas so he was very welcoming of the transition
between medieval art and the renaissance art. He also realized that
religious art had become less popular in the market. ("Christina of
Denmark - Hans Holbein the Younger - WikiArt.org). He focused on
making the person he was painting appear as real as possible. On
the canvas he wanted to show human emotion as much as possible.
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Differences and Similarities Between Both Artists Michelangelo:
Tondo Doni 8 Holbein: Thomas More
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Differences Between Both Artists: Michelangelo made a lot of
sculptures and murals he was more of a humanist than Holbein, of
course that might be because he was around humanist since it was
more popular in Italy than it was in Germany since the whole
concept was new at the time. ("Christina of Denmark) Holbein
focused more on neutralism and realism, he wanted to paint
portraits of people, even though that was not very popular at the
time. He was moving away from religious paintings and focused more
on humans. 9
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Similarities Between Both Artists Both Holbein and Michelangelo
had renaissance interpretations in their work (Nudity, Nature,
Religion and Classic Stories of Rome and Greece) Both artists
wanted to convey human emotion rather than just paint typical
religious paintings/sculptures. Michelangelo and Holbein were both
talented in different aspects of art and they both valued change
and knowledge. 10
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Middle Ages Vs. The Renaissance 11
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Middle Ages Vs. The Renaissance There is definitely a strong
connection between religion. The Renaissance art seems to embrace
and connect religion to humans more. Furthermore, the Middle Age
art focuses more on the seriousness of religion. It is more of an
obsession than an adoration. The art during that time was strict
and there was no liberty given to artist. Also in the middle ages
the people were more narrow minded, they were simplistic characters
who lived and died worshiping religion. Unlike the Renaissance
period, where there was a sense of freedom given to the
people.
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Evidence of New Birth I have discovered a gradual between the
Medieval Ages and the Renaissance by looking at the politics, art
and the ideals that people had. From a political aspect, The
different city states, Venice, Mulan, Florence,Pisa, Genoa had
become very powerful by being competitive with one another,
bettering their economy and thickening their culture allowed them
to step away from the natural law and move into a positive law with
rules that men created for the society instead of following god.
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In terms of ideology, humanist became more and more popular,
suddenly humans began to care about education and become curious
with the human condition. It became a generation of upgrading and
becoming better. Lastly, there was also a change in the art that
was being made, because it was only focused on religion but as
humans began to gain more knowledge they began to want to
paint/sculpt other things around them instead of just fixating on
religion. This slowly allowed them to become less narrow minded.
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