Renaissance Art

Painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of

European is call the Renaissance. It also becomes Italy unique

style about 1400. Renaissance art also know as a royalty of

ancient traditions. The transition of Europe from the medieval

period to the Early modern age is marked by Renaissance art.

By 1500, Renaissance style succeed and as late Renaissance art

development, it has its own characteristic in every region.

Late 13th and early 14th centuries in Italy, Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano (sculptors) show the

classic tendencies (influenced by the familiarity of artist with ancient Roman sarcophagi). Pulpits of the

Baptistery and Cathedral of Pisa are the masterpiece of them. Giotto (a painter) developed a way of

unprecedentedly naturalistic, 3D, lifelike and classicism figurative painting. His greatest work is the cycle of the

Life of Christ.

The painters in early Netherlandish art included Jan van Eyck, his brothers.

Their paintings develop uniquely without influenced. The style of painting grew

directly out of the Medieval arts of tempera painting, stained glass and book

illumination. They used oil paint to paint. the Netherlandish painters did not

approach the creation of a picture through a framework of linear perspective and

correct proportion. A medieval view of hierarchical proportion of religious

symbolism is maintained by them.

During the early Renaissance in Italy, the first Renaissance artist emerge in 1401 –

Brunelleschi, the most popular architect. Moreover, he also created a variety of

sculptural works. Perspective studies of him have influenced the painter become the

greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance. Masaccio was the painterly descendant of

Giotto, continue the trend towards solidity of form and naturalism of face and gesture.

Several panel paintings are completed by Masaccio and managed to influence later

painters. Perspective and light in painting was particular concern. Uccello was trying to

achieve an appearance of perspective that according to Vasari. The result can be seen in his fresco cycle of The

History of the True Cross. In Naples, Antonello da Messina starts using oil paints for portraits and religious.

In the high Renaissance in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was to further perfect the aspects of pictorial art. His

adoption of oil paint as his primary media meant that he could depict light and its effects on the landscape and

objects more naturally and with greater dramatic effect than had ever been done before. Michelangelo, his

painting or sculpture never show interest in natural object expect human body. He has a perfect technique.

In early Renaissance in France, the artist always associated with courts, providing illuminated

manuscripts and portrait. There were some artists at this date who painted famed altarpieces that

are stylistically quite unique from both Italian and Flemish. Religious painting of Giovanni

Bellini represent the high Renaissance in Northern Italy.

In German, Hieronyms Bosch was a painter who employed the type of fanciful forms that were

often utilized to decorate borders and letters in illuminated manuscripts, combining plant and

animal forms with architectonic ones.