Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. ... Funerary art may serve many cultural functions. ... The Renaissance was a golden age of church building. ... Every Renaissance church in Italy is filled with masterpieces of Funerary Art. ... By the High Renaissance, led by Michelangelo's tombs, the effigies are often sitting up, and later may stand. ...

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Even as artists began to show a sense of perspective in their art, the lack of a defined theory made drawings appear awkward. ... This was one of the first urban gardens of the renaissance, providing a venue for Papal theatry. ... This discussion has shown the positive effect that the development of 'renaissance' perspective had on the history of design. ... In terms of theatre, perspective opened art to the realm of the psychological, something upon which drama relies. ... If the true art of perspective were followed, all straight lines would appear slightly curved if they we...

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Walking through the illustrious halls of the Met, I struggled with choosing just one of the many magnificent pieces of art that reside in the distinguished museum. ... Over the course of his life Serra delegated several other commissions to Guercino and was known as a notable art collector in Rome. ... Artists use elements of style and principles of composition all throughout their art in order to express certain mood, convey different ideas, and to emphasize particular subjects in their composition. These styles and compositional rules differ throughout the various periods of art, as well as ...

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The principal is known as the Carolingian Renaissance, supposed to perceive the blossoming of adapting under the rule of Charlemagne (ruled 768 "814). ... The accomplishments of the Carolingian age set the stage for the following traditional restoration, known as the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, a term coined by Charles Homer Haskins (1870 "1937) to portray the blooming of established learning amid this period. ... Traditional style was grasped from multiple points of view amid the Renaissance in Italy, and it showed itself in different interests. ... Alongside the painter Mas...

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In Baroque, classic roman features were used but without the placid order and restraint of the early Renaissance; for instance the facades of early Renaissance buildings were flat, while the concave and convex forms of Baroque facades surge back and forth in depth producing dramatic effects of light and shade, and giving moreover a feeling of crowding, exuberance and extravagance. ... Renaissance architecture uses the strait line- it is sober and calm, while Baroque relies on the multiplicity of curved lines for its effect of motion- it is spectacular and exuberant. It's appeal turned ...

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