RENAISSANCE ART

Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art

The Italian High Renaissance is the major movement in art narration, during the Renaissance there was a shift to Greek and Roman culture that lead to an all new revolution of knowledge specifically in human form together with innovations in science and mathematics. The interest of artists got diverted more towards creations of God, and importantly human form in particular demonstrated the high end of art. The relation of beauty and morality and the pursuit towards beauty in art became the ideal. The nude human form in which a linear aspect accompanied by the atmospheric aspect became the hallmark of Italian art! (Barrett, Maurice 1965)

Michelangelo is best remembered for his sculpture David the high point of Michelangelo's early style is the gigantic (4.34m/14.24ft) marble David, which was produced between the years 1501and 1504, after returning to Florence. The Old Testament hero is depicted by Michelangelo as a lithe nude youth, muscular and alert, looking off into the distance as if he was sizing up the enemy Goliath, whom he has not yet been encountered with. The fiery intensity of David's facial expression is termed aggressive and stubborn, a feature characteristic of many of Michelangelo's figures and of his own personality. David, was Michelangelo's most famous sculpture, it became the symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza della signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and the Romans, by infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning. Michelangelo's David clearly supports Mirandola's statement. Since Renaissance art focused on representing tangible, human figures, rather than depicting scenes from the Bible in order to praise God, the artists had to think in more natural, ...