Renaissance+Art

system for creating depth using the horizon line and the vanishing point. Giotto (1267-1337), was one of the first artists to paint with a believable sense of depth and was also one of the first artists to venture into the field of fresco painting. || Type in the content of your page here.
 * David || Mona Lisa || The last Supper || // Father of Renaissance Painting // ||
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 * The picture above is a sculpture of Donatello's David. Donatello lived in the late 1300's to the 1400's mainly as a sculptor. David was a free standing nude sculpture. Being 14 feet in height and carved out of an old, unwanted block of marble, David, depicts an adolescent David with the severed head of his Biblical foe, Goliath, lying at his feet. This anatomically accurate and realistic sculptor is a general characteristic of most Renaissance art. It is also modeled after the Ancient Greek and Roman statues, a revival the classical past.Seeing the new Renaissance art amazed people, because they had never seen anything like it before. It was innovative in its design and controversial in its subjects as well as being both realistic and beautiful. As many artists and city-states competed to see who could make the finest work a new energy and excitement grew among them. || The picture above is a masterpiece has continued to keep people intrigued after 500 years. Some of the most recognizable art of the western world was produced in the high Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is a portrait of a mysterious woman. This piece of art work is arguably the world's most recognizable painting. This painting exemplifies Leonardo's use of light and shadow to create an exquisite softness and realism in human flesh. Leonardo da Vinci's areas of study ranged from nature to music to math to anatomy to engineering to botany to the arts, studying everything and he even kept notebooks carefully filled with his ideas, sketches, and diagrams for his inventions. Along with Michelangelo Buonarotti, Leonardo da Vinci left a legacy of pure genius that would bring the Renaissance in Italy to its culmination. || The Last Supper is a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. This painting has faded tremendously because of his inadequate fresco preparation.Leonardo possessed an interest in virtually every human endeavor and had a great talent at almost he tried. His areas of study ranged from nature to music to math to anatomy toengineering to botany to the arts. He also studied everything and carefully kept notebooks. Leonardo da Vinci conducted scientific experiments,dissected human corpses, and used various painting techniques in his art work. He was one of many artists to contribute in significant ways. || This picture is called "the Father of Renaissance Painting." During the Renaissance the most significant innovation in painting is linear perspective. Paintings from this times tended to look flat and had little sense of realistic depth. Artists in the early Renaissance developed a