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Middle Ages and the Renaissance Art

Middle Ages and the Renaissance Art

Introduction

The era between classical antiquity and the modern age is termed as middle age. The term is also used for non-European historical periods that present analogies with medieval Europe or the institutions or the decline of civilization or for other reasons.  The concept of the Middle Ages was formed between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. the work of humanists who saw in it the negation of beauty and balance artistic classics, and works of the reformers who identified the Middle Ages with a long period of decadence and corruption of the Church. This negative judgment last long, though for the people of the Middle Ages the Church was often regarded as a moment of brilliance. 

Discussion

The relationships between the Middle Ages and the renaissance periods

The middle ages knew only a critical historiography in the eighteenth century. In Italy many reports were designed to show how vital forces were acting in the middle ages, for the formation of a new Europe. During the nineteenth century, in Germany, through the aim was observed to re-evaluation of the Germanic world. The chronological limits within which it is customary to define the middle ages are conventionally AD 476 (the date of the fall of the Roman Empire) and 1492 (the year of the discovery of America), but this is simply indicative references. If in 476 ended the succession in the imperial West and was not the authority of the Roman emperor in Italy, other countries such as Gaul, the British Isles, the Germanic provinces had already detached itself from the Empire, on the other hand, the section Eastern Empire lasted for another millennium. Moreover, one can speak of the middle era of decline for the Arab countries or the countries conquered by Islam, such as Spain, where he began instead a time of artistic and cultural splendor (Johnson, 2003).

Historical middle ages art period

The Renaissance is one of the late middle ages and early modern era. In the historiography of "Renaissance" is a term that designates a period in history and art and culture that developed in Italy and spread elsewhere in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by the emergence of a new ideal of life and the revival of studies and the arts. In this period of fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages, the art was based mainly on the agricultural economy and on an intellectual and cultural life inspired by religious thought, turned into a society based on the central political institutions. This society was the advocated commercial economy of urban and the patronage of secular art and literature (Johnson, 2003). Best examples of Middle Ages artworks include, Madonna from the Annunciation by Simone Martini, The Crucifixion and the Last Judgment by Jan Van Eyck and many more.

Renaissance came forward because the people were finally able to think and understand about the world aside from their agricultural and other needs. They finally started appreciating the concept of beauty, divinity, God and Theology.

The term "Renaissance" was first used in 1855 by the ...