Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art: A Memory From the Past

Art allows people to get inspiration to communicate feelings or ideas through forms, lines, or music without using words. In order to approach all the interests in classical civilization, Renaissance explode that artistic energy. The Renaissance alludes to the period in Europe from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century in which new types of art was cultivated after the Gothic Era. The word “renaissance” means “rebirth”. This meaning was given because of the way intellectual interests reminds the classic past with the Middle Ages. The principal source of inspiration was the Roman statues and buildings throughout Italy. Creating this kind of art made artists feel free, because some paintings were preserved from the old Roman Era and they could take ideas for their creations to follow this style. The Renaissance includes important art-forms such as literature, painting, music, and sculpture.

The term “Renaissance” does not have a approximate dates to indicate the limits of this movement. According to Richard Brace, author of The Making of the Modern World, this movement began in Italy at the middle of the fourteenth century. The Renaissance period in art history corresponds to the beginning of the great western age of discovery and exploration, when a general desire developed to examine all aspects of nature and the world (Brace). During this period, art became valued not as a way for religious and social identity, but even more as a mode of personal expression. During the Renaissance there were many drastic changes in the style of art. Early renaissance artist sought to create art forms consistent with the appearance of the natural world and with their experience of human personality and behavior, and artists studied the way light hits objects and the way our eyes perceive light (Hayes). These artists made an effort to go beyond transcription of nature, to provide the work of art with ideal, intangible qualities, giving...