The High Renaissance.
The flowering of Italian Art.
The High Renaissance in Italy is
generally described as the period from around 1500, although like the
starting date of the Renaissance itself the dates are not set in stone.
Work from ancient Greek and Roman
sculptures and buildings had been admired and studied by generations of
artists and the explosion in art and creativity reached its pinical in
quite a narrow timescale, up to about 1530.
During this period the classical arts of
antiquity had been fully recaptured and the accumilation of knowledge
that started with Giotto was fully expressed in the work of the Great
masters,
Michelangelo, Rapael,
Leonardo
and the Venitian painters
Giorgione
and Titian.
The
Laocoon group. (P)
The
Laocoon group is a first century Roman sculpture copied from a Greek
original dating from the second century B.C. Laocoon was a Trojan
priest who was punished by the gods when they sent two serpents to
suffocate him and his two sons to death.
Michelangelo
admired this work very much and it's clear to see why the artists of
the Renaissance looked to the art of antiquity for inspiration. I have
seen this statue in the grounds of the Vatican and in my opinion it is
as fine a work as any Renaissance sculpture.
After the sack of Rome in 1527 by German
mercanary troops, and the death of Rapael in 1520, Pope Paul III
Farnese oversaw possibly the final great High Renaissance work
excecuted in Rome, Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
In Venice the painters Giorgione and
Titian
seem to have worked closley together in the early years of the
sixteenth century and their work together ended on the early death of
Giorgione. Titian's fame was almost the equal of Michelangelo and he is
the superstar of Venetian painting.
The
Bridge of Sighs, venice.
(P)
The early Renaissance years had belonged
to the city of Florence but the High Renassance in Italy is centred on
the two citys of Rome and Venice. Eventually the Renaissance style was
adapted by later painters and evolved into the style known as Mannerism.
Western Art has grown and expanded from
the lessons learned in the Renaissance, from the Baroque; Rococo;
Romanticism; Impressionism and through to the Cubist and Surrealist
movements and the `Modern` Abstract art of Pollock and Kandinski. Learn
more about Abstract Art at abstract-art-information-inspiration.com
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The High Renaissance to Early Renaissance History.
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