With this concept, artists and sculptors started to revive the Greco-Roman influences and reflect it on the male nude figure with Renaissance quality. Through the portrayal of iconic heroism, artists like Donatello, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo developed a new sculptural representation of the biblical king, David. ... Through Donatello, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo, the evolution of David is prominent as each artist captures the courage and the spirit of this ancient biblical figure. ... In the late 14th century, the revitalization of ancient thought continued to influence the artists of the ...

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The thinkers and humanists had much to do with the direction of the Renaissance, but the artists also had significant importance. ... The artists of the Middle Ages focused primarily on religious subjects, not focusing on making their art realistic. ... There were many great artists spread across the time of the Renaissance. ... There was also Michelangelo, who it was said that through him, art in Italy attained the 'supreme perfection'(Silver 162). ... Just like during the time of the Italian Renaissance, the artist of today play an important role in our civilization. ...

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These new aesthetics found expression in the works of such Italian artists as Leonardo da Vinci, S. Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Michelangelo. ... Among the most famous figures of this type were the architect, painter, organist, and writer Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo. The great artists of the period made several notable contributions to literature. The sonnets of Michelangelo are impassioned expressions of inner feelings and religious conviction. ...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by an artist. ... Humanism, "with its respect for the classical past, was merely a convenient vehicle for the subtle genius " of scholars, authors, and artists of the Renaissance (Kekewich 3). ...

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Much of this money went to sponsor the great architects and artists of the age. ... We know that Pope Julius II commissioned his own tomb, but it is unclear if Michelangelo was paid the full amount he was owed, since after the Popes death the tomb became significantly smaller. ... By the High Renaissance, led by Michelangelo's tombs, the effigies are often sitting up, and later may stand. ... With the rise of this phenomenon, tomb making for painters, sculptors, and architects rose, showing a new interest in the cult of the artist. Artists who achieved earthly fame were honored with indiv...

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Early Renaissance artists would seek to create art forms in line with their experience of human personality and behavior. ... Artists in the high Renaissance like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael established paintings in the narrative style that exhibited the human body in a more technical and natural manner, thus showing the different features of daily life. Da Vinci would express humanist and classical values and Raphael would express the classical ideals of beauty, serenity and harmony, while Michelangelo would originate creative power, as he used the human body as the u...

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Artists, writers, musicians and composers began creating work outside the church. ... There were many notable artists during the Renaissance period that earmarked the transition from the medieval era. ... Another renowned artist of the period was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) who was known as a sculptor, architect, painter, engineer and poet, and is credited with significantly influencing western art (Hughes, 327) (Janson, 246). Many of Michelangelo's sculptures, architectural designs and paintings have been noted as famous throughout the modern day world. ... He ...

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At these courts leading artists, intellectuals, and politicians gathered under the sponsorship of the signore and families. ... They were definitely not concerned with making their artwork look lifelike, as can be depicted by famous artwork of many medieval artists. ... Giotto is considered the first artist to portray nature realistically (sorry Monet). ... Michelangelo is known as probably the greatest artist of the Renaissance, excelling in painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. Michelangelo was well known for capturing the essence of the human body, an achievement well sought after...

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It was then that artists were in complete control of their materials and were capable of executing masterful works of art. ... They were definitely not concerned with making their artwork look lifelike, as can be depicted by famous artwork of many medieval artists. ... Giotto is considered the first artist to portray nature realistically (not Monet :>). ... Michelangelo is known as probably the greatest artist of the Renaissance, excelling in painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. Michelangelo was well known for capturing the essence of the human body, an achievement well sought a...

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Original thinkers such as Galileo Galilei, Martin Luther, and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni lead inspirational paths forever changing humanity. ... The ingenious cultural impacts of Michelangelo during the Renaissance are still principal to Italian as well as Western culture today. ... Not to cast a shadow on the great artists and writers of the Renaissance, however, while culture is an essential part of society, it is constantly changing. ...

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The artist was responsible for everything, organizing a team of stone-masons and apprentice painters, too designing and laying out the complex composition of the work. The Camera Obscura, allegedly used by Vermeer was not to come into play for another three hundred years, yet Masaccio was to lay out a complex grid system of strings while working with a plaster medium that only allowed the artist to cover the wall with as much plaster as he could paint in a day this was to become known as Giornata (Italian for day).Twenty eight different Giornato have been revealed during the renovation work (E...

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A short period known as High Renaissance (1500-1520) gave birth to some of the most influential and greatly known artists, among them Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. ... The Renaissance enabled artists to stray from painting on church walls and experiment with oil based paints on stretched canvases. ... In summation the rebirth of lifelike art, or Renaissance, brought with it uniquely talented artists. These artists revolutionized the way art was made and who art was made for. One artist specifically is Sandro Botticelli who brought an ...

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Weddings and births were causes for great celebration and artists would create pieces to commemorate such occasions. ... The more liberal view of homosexuality showed through in the somewhat ambiguous male adolescent nudes of Verrocchio, Michelangelo and Donatello. ... Homosexuality was also suppressed in the Dark Ages while during the Renaissance artists were openly gay and reflected their sexual inclination in their work. ...

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Traditional styles and topics kept on dominaing the time of the High Renaissance in the work of the early-sixteenth-century experts Leonardo da Vinci (1452 "1519), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 "1564), and Raphael Sanzio (1483 "1520). ...

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