During the high medieval period (1000-1300), architecture and art based on religion was said to have flourished and the art reflected a move toward international Christianity (Renaissance Art, web). ... Art mimicked this humanistic focus. ... Although Leonardo da Vinci made many contributions in the form of art, he is most known for "Virgin of the Rocks"" (1480's) "The Last Supper"" (1490's) and "Mona Lisa"" (1500's) (Gardner, 451). ... He was an Italian architect and painter, and his work has reportedly been admired for it clarity of form, visual achievement of the human body a...

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As a result, there would be a complete transformation in the nature of art. ... Early Renaissance artists would seek to create art forms in line with their experience of human personality and behavior. In addition, they would also strive to depict realistic human forms with exact proportions and true to life clothing and expressions that were rich in drama and emotion. ... Drawing would also emerge as a major art form during the Renaissance as the creation of the printing press in the mid-1450s would make paper cheaper and easier for the artists to obtain. ... Art would become more than just a...

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"Art is a mirror of any given society: Art reflects the major beliefs values and assumptions of the society that it is created in."" ... A more secular and humanistic form of art was made. ... An even better example of this shift in views from the medieval art to the Renaissance art was Michelangelo's sculpture of David. ... The Renaissance artist paid so much attention to detail that sometimes the bodies looked to be without skin; this was because the artists would look at human bodies to see what the true form of the body was and would often paint this detail of the lines of muscle into...

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I learned about the ways that these three art forms are similar and different. ... In renaissance and classical art, bodies were depicted as ideal people or forms. ... One way that the three periods of art, classical, medieval, and renaissance are alike are they, all used painting as a form of art. Another form of art was sculpting. All three of the periods also painted as a form of art. ...

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Gothic Art Gothic Art is the style of art produced in Europe from the middle ages up to the beginning of the Renaissance. ... For Gothic art it was the city. ... The human form was the last of God's creatures to succumb to the "naturalistic" trend in Gothic art. ... Adam and Eve whose nakedness signaled sin, stained the human form. ... I've noticed that ironically, the first human form to be represented was a corpse. ...

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Art, it's everywhere you look. ... At this point in time, so many people were interested in art that many Societies were formed to display art. ... Surrealists claim to create forms and images not primarily by reason, but by unthinking impulse and blind feeling-or even by accident. One modern art movements in art was Pop Art. Pop art was an art movement, mostly American, that became well known during the 1960s. ...

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Most of the works of art center around the church, as they were the major financial supporter of art during this time. ... It was a revival of the classical forms originally developed by ancient Greeks and Romans. ... Many sculptors evoked an interest in the forms of classical antiquity. ... In medieval times Gothic Cathedrals and also Romanesque style were the main form of architecture. ... There was a revival of ancient Roman forms, including the column, round arch, tunnel vault and the dome. ...

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The pride and appreciation exhibited in the work of art for the human physique demonstrated the humanistic ideas of the Renaissance. ... His letters became a blueprint for humanists of the Renaissance, with letters becoming the favorite form of prose (Humanism: Italy 5). ... In his time, no longer were the teachings of the church and Aristotle, a teleologist who believed in eudaimonia, often described as the highest form of human good, suitable (Kessler 59). ... They thought of themselves as "apostles of a new golden age that would usher in the rinascita " or rebirth of all societies with the...

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Renaissance Art The Renaissance was "A revival or rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly in Italy,"" according to Art In Focus. ... During the Renaissance, art was a branch of knowledge. ... The major forms were then modeled in a brownish tone. ... Leonardo was a genius in his approach to art and many other areas of study. ... The Renaissance was period of time when art was very important. ...

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST ART Sumerian Statuettes from Tell Asmar 73 35 Figures of many different heights, hands are folded in gesture of prayer. ... VOCABULARY Apadana: an audience hall in a Persian palace Capital: the top element of a column Cuneiform: a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow-head shape Cylinder seal: a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image Facade: the front of a building Ground plan: the map of a floor of a building Hierarchy of scale: a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the siz...

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Sexuality in Renaissance Art The Italian Renaissance, which spanned over the years 1350 until about 1550, is usually defined as a rebirth, focusing on the revival of classical learning and an exhilarating sense of renewed human potential in the moral, political and creative spheres. ... It is interesting to note that these works of art were only commissioned for the birth of a son, rather than a daughter. ... The restrictions on women's dress were expected to form an outward manifestation of the inner subordination they were expected to adopt. ... The sculptor's admiration of ...

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Some topics that will come up include the transformation of a new form of art, what the importance of humanism was, and the artist that were prevalent during this time. ... Some forms that were reborn were nudes, which became a major subject of art. ... Seen in fig. 1 which is a sculpture created by Donatello you can see the detail of muscle structure and form. ... This painting is another great example of Renaissance art. ... In spite of van Eyck's realistic detail, the paining has a Gothic quality in its symbolism, form, and vertical lines. ...

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During the Italian Renaissance, social and humanistic values started to be expressed in many forms: literature and architecture but most importantly sculptors and paintings. ... The socialistic values now forming in paintings was quite dominate. ... These values that were so intricately weaved into the Renaissance through art started movements that would change history. Each value began to express how social classes were forming (with more definition) and humans were not focusing as much on their after life but now on their present life. They still held their views of religion and God but ...

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Art has come a long way in time from the early prehistoric art through the Classical period and then into the Renaissance, all the way to where we are now, art has evolved with the times. Everywhere you look, art is present, and whether it is obvious or not, be it a painting, a sculpture, or some sort of architecture, our world is full of art. ... His technique was that of a new, sharply contoured, slender form and rippling sinuous line" (Schutz, 1992, 46). ... Botticelli is of his generation in his enthusiasm for themes "from classical mythology and along with it in his suiting the ancient...

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As no dominant powers emerged as they did in other parts of Europe, the oligarchic city-state became the dominant form of government. By the fifthteenth century, Italy was divided into separate city-states, each with a different form of government. ... In 1628, William Harvey formed a theory that states that the heart acts as a pump that pushed blood throughout the body which regulates respiratory breathing. ... In the past, Italy's government has been ruled by city-states, monarchies, fascists, and different forms of democracy. ... All of these plus more rich styles of art such as, Pop a...

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It seems to me that before this time the aristocracy was the only ones who played a part in the making of art. ... The people of these countries formed what is now the middle class, so they now had the wealth to invest in art and the other great achievement of the Renaissance, education. ... I think that this has a great deal to do with the amount of money that was spent on art. ... Just as the science changed the art of the Renaissance it has greatly changed art in today's society. ... I can only hope that in the future when people read about our society when studying humanities they ...

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He was the artistic factotum of Duke Frederick, one of the most intellectual princes and most enlightened art lovers of his age. ... At this time he made a transition form the typical style of the Umbrian school, with its emphasis on perspective and rigidly geometrical composition, to a more animated, informal manner of painting. ... Works Cited Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble, Patrick Frank, Art Forms , 7th Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001 Raphael. Artsworld www.artsworld.com/art-architecture/biographies/raffello- Sanzio, 2002 ...

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In these times music was a simple art, sung by the people to praise the Lord. ... The cantata and oratorio were created as new forms of vocal pieces. ... New forms of music were written in continuous contrapuntal form with no distinguishable movements, the most famous of which was the fantasia. ... Like in the Baroque era, the concerto and sonata were used as art forms. In the Classical period the symphony and string quartet were added as new acceptable art forms. ...

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Humanism inspired new forms of writing. ... Yet to be altered in my mind, I find that art is the biggest classical influence during the Renaissance and the most remarkable. ... Humanism also helped influence the classical art that was set in mind. ... The Renaissance brought back some of the greatest forgotten works of literature, life, and art. ... From Francesco Petrarca to Leonardo da Vinci the Renaissance has had a huge impact on how art and culture is viewed today. ...

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This document will explore the influence of Italian Renaissance art on today's civilization, which has greatly changed the art of today. ... Even though Giotto was ahead, he lacked the awareness of perspective, but he used space, light, and color to create a very strong sense of the human form, along with a storyteller's ability to capture the central moment in a particular scene (Walker 78). ... Just like the artisans of the Renaissance, the artisans of today are supported by patrons of art. ... Today's art might not be as lively or diverse. ... They take our cultures and ideas...

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It was said that art was becoming a necessity as same as food. ... Lorenzo dedicated his life and his money to produce more art than ever, and help created a culture best for art creation. ... Roman Catholicism also played huge role in renaissance art in Italy. There must be a best cultural environment for art because most of the great art that has made during renaissance era is more likely related to Jesus, Virgin Mary, or Greek Gods. ... Artists became more concerned with form than the content. ...

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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. ... Generally speaking--the main elements of the Renaissance were:  Oil paint was used for the first time--prior to this point, egg tempera was the medium of choice.  Both symbols and real-life events were represented together in the same art works.  Chiaroscuro (the balance of light and dark was for the first time shown within a picture by using shadows rather than blocky outlines).  Balanced compositions-- the arrangement of thi...

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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. ... Every Renaissance church in Italy is filled with masterpieces of Funerary Art. ... In most instances, specialized funeral art was produced for the powerful and wealthy, although the burials of ordinary people might include simple monuments and grave goods, usually from their possessions. ... Although the style of the work is thoroughly classicizing, the overall form reflects the grandest type of the medieval Italian wall tomb, in which the ver...

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Just by looking at most of the art work during that era shows the significance it had on the culture. The majority of the art work was religious based. ... Before long, scholars were rediscovering Greek and Roman art, science, and literature" (Day). ... Art in Italian Renaissance was one of a kind. The art in Italy focused on mechanical perspective, aerial perspective, proportion, and anatomy. ...

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When the new upper class movement, Renaissance, occurred in Italy around the 14th century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intensified concern with secular life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. Thus, artists such as Mosaccio and Giotto depicted art that unlike the Middle Ages, showed emotions, feelings, and bright colors, thus demonstrating the deep concern for naturalism in the society. ... With the continuous growth of paintings and artists, prestige for art increased dramatically to ...

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