A change came from Italy in the mid 1400s when Masaccio burst onto the scene embodying all the qualities that make the Renaissance the rebirth and rediscovery of Greco-Roman art and literature. ... As time passed this artistic movement spread across Italy to Venice and Rome, and by the Sixteenth century the rest of Europe. ... Directly following this period is an interval that concluded the inspired majesty known as The Renaissance, this period is called The Late Renaissance. ... Spumato shading made it appear as if the lighter parts of the painting were coming forth from the shadows, thus its...

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As the vivid form of art developed, people from all over the world experimented with animation and developed it, such as the Italian painters and artists from the Italian Renaissance who started to apply a three dimensional perspective to drawings and paintings ("Meep! ...

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He also said that Michelangelo was a renaissance man, as he was a great sculptor, painter and architect that ever lived. ... El Greco did like Michelangelo, after all he was under his wing for a while when he was in Italy. ... Michelangelo's artistic background was from the humanism of the Italian Renaissance while El Greco's style of art came from the Byzantine and Venetian background that he had. ... Michelangelo was born March 6, 1474 during the Late Renaissance in Florence, Italy. ... The High Renaissance, which Michelangelo studied in, was a very creative time; people were obses...

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The idea of an object being a "work of art" was not considered until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy. (Witcombe, 4) First used during the Renaissance, the word "art" was a collective term for sculpture, painting, and architecture. ... (Witcombe, 10) Largely, the new modern artists rejected the standards and principles of the academies and the Renaissance traditions. ... (Witcombe, 11) This statement was in ironic mockery of the Renaissance tradition which had placed the artist in a dignified position. ...

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