During the Renaissance art and music became big in its own power. ... Art and music began in the Renaissance as an activity during leisure time but people started to buy art to hang in homes and people started to take music classes or learn musical skills. ... Art and music were a couple of the major contributions to society in the Renaissance. ... Baroque and Renaissance styled art were more basic featuring simple brush strokes and everyday human life but as several years passed more and more styles of art started hypnotizing society and the people in it. ... In conclusion, the Italian Renais...

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is known for his early religious paintings that synthesize with the late Renaissance and the decline of the Church's power. His bold, naturalistic style revolutionized Renaissance art by introducing a new style that was adopted by many artists. ... Living with Petersano and working in his studio introduced Caravaggio to Renaissance art. ... Caravaggio's stay in Rome helped him learn more about art. ... This Baroque style of art served as a reaction against the intricate logic and reason that began to dominate the Late Renaissance with the help of peo...

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The Renaissance Period, spanning from 1400-1600, was more than just a movement in the type of music that was playing; it was a movement of ideas in almost every art form of the time. ... This spanned to all forms of art and generally took people as a whole by the dissemination of information and the pursuit of knowledge. ... This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect intonation, and vocal renaissance music was especially noted for its perfect fourths and fifths (Norton 158). ... The Renaissance had many iconic composers such as John Dunstable (1...

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Religious conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants had a great effect on art. ... The emergence of an urban middle class with disposable income used art as an investment. ... The Baroque artist began to specialize even further, no longer the universal man of the Renaissance, but concentrating on a particular medium. ... Below is an example of Baroque art at its best in my opinion. ... Below is an example of what Romantic art encompassed. ...

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It is a picture of the Bridgeman Art Library while a show is being put on. ... Some stylistic characteristics of Baroque art is the deep color and intense light and dark shadows. The art typically was done by the Baroque artists at the moment the action was occurring, which is different from the Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an even took place. ...

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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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Choral Music of the Baroque Era The baroque style of music was different than its predecessor the renaissance period, because music during the renaissance period was sung in the a cappella choral style, while in the baroque era instruments played a huge role. ... Other Arts (Poets/artists) Baroque art used complex style to create emotions and tension that appealed to the senses. ... Caravaggio and Carracci brought three-dimensional art. ... The name "Baroque" became a name that is associated with strong emotional feelings, passion and tension, whether in music, art, or politics. ... Eve...

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Rubens was very much influenced by the artists of northern Europe of his time so he traveled to Italy where it happened to be the center of art at that period. ... There, for nine years, he did many originals and also copies of Renaissance paintings. A very important part of his life that developed his artistic being was an influence in the early baroque art of Anniblae Carracci and Caravaggio and also many humanist intellectuals. This brought Rubens into a new maturity level of art. ...

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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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