CLASSICISM IN RENAISSANCE ART

Classicism in Renaissance Art

Classicism in Renaissance Art

Introduction

The term "Renaissance" has been used, first, by potters in the mid 16th century because, according to him, the period in which he lived "would have revived the art," after so many centuries during which the "barbarians" had destroyed. According to a fairly common tradition, the beginning of the Renaissance is located in 1492, the year of important historical events, but ideas "Renaissance", which spoke of "man at the center of the world", the use of perspective in painting as an art "mutation" of nature circulating in Florence in the early years of 1400, when the city has already exceeded the financial and social crisis, but it was above politics of Medici family who, along with others, becomes one of the largest commissioners of works of art, surrounding himself with artists and intellectuals (Taylor, 2007).

Next to the church, was born private clients, leading to a different thematic choice, a different mode of expression. The duration of the Renaissance is, almost two centuries, and lasted until the sixteenth century and gradually establishing it in the various courts, which housed the artists who were educated in the various "shops" of the great masters (Johnson, 2009).

Discussion

The term "artist" was not used in 'humanism. G. Vasari, in outlining the biographies, dedicates his work to the "Framers" of the drawing, to those who "practiced the visual arts." The Renaissance is the dominant aesthetic of classical type and assumes an ideal elite: the art must be based on a high intellectual content and rigor of formal models derived from the great antiquity. The metaphorical use of language must conform to the criteria of elegance, decorum and restraint that bring poetry to oratory. Hence the importance of rhetoric, strongly theorized by the first systematic exposition of the principles of poetic art.

It is a work inspired by the art of Horace, Cicero and Quintilian, and spread the precepts. Another distinguishing feature is that the new aesthetics, which were widely debated in the previous century, imitation: it theorizes the need both imitation of the classics, the imitation of nature, in an attempt to reach a higher synthesis between assimilation of the standard from the classical masters of antiquity and the direct study of life. Finally, and importantly, the new art is inspired by an ideal of perfection based on the principles of harmony, balance, proportion relationship between the parties, the décor (Johnson, 2009).

If the second half of the fifteenth century was characterized by experimentation and unfinished (think of the poems of Politian, Pulci and Boiardo of, for example), now the completeness, stability, respect of the rent values ??become dominant (eg to Ariosto). To achieve the ideal of harmonious beauty which we now tend, the uniformity is considered essential to a standard. Hence the flourishing of treatises on art and literary genres was witnessed. The aesthetics of the sixteenth century is short, perceptive type. Since the thirties, the Poetics of Aristotle is taken as the basis of all discourse ...