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High Renaissance Art: Introduction

I chose High Renaissance art because the artwork in this period shows

real distinctive details and emotion.

I want to know why the human body was so inspirational to these artists.

I am interested in learning why this art period is called the rebirth of art .

High Renaissance Art: Introduction

• Renaissance Art was done in Europe from the late 1400s to1600.

• Separated into three main categories: Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, and Late Renaissance.

• Marked by “logical thought and the new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement called humanism” (Frank, 2014, p. 279).

• Artists studied anatomy and “applied geometry to the logical construction of implied space through linear perspective” (Frank, 2014, p. 281).

• High Renaissance was peak of Italian art from 1490 to 1530 (Frank, 2014).

La Primavera Sandro Botticelli

1482 Tempera on panel

(Botticelli, ca. 1482)

Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci

1503-1506 Oil on wood

(Da Vinci, ca. 1503)

The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci

1495 Paint on plaster

(Da Vinci, ca. 1495)

Adam and Eve Albrecht Dürer

1504 Engraving

(Dürer, 1504)

Virgin and Child before an Archway Albrecht Dürer

1495 Oil on panel

(Dürer, ca. 1495)

References

• Botticelli, S. (ca. 1482). Birth of Venus [Tempera on canvas]. Retrieved from http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/the-birth-of-

venus-by-sandro-botticelli/

• Botticelli, S. (ca. 1482). Primavera [Tempera on panel]. Retrieved from http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/la-primavera-

allegory-of-spring-by-sandro-botticelli/

• Da Vinci, L. (ca. 1495). The last supper [Oil on canvas]. Retrieved from

http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo4.html#note

• Da Vinci, L. (ca. 1503). Mona Lisa [Oil on wood]. Retrieved from http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/mona-lisa-

portrait-lisa-gherardini-wife-francesco-del-giocondo

• Dürer, A. (ca. 1495). Virgin and child before an archway [Oil on panel]. Retrieved from

http://www.wga.hu/html_m/d/durer/1/01/07virgin.html

• Dürer, A. (1504). Adam and Eve [Engraving]. Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/19.73.1

• Frank, P. (2014). Prebles' Artforms: An introduction to the visual arts (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.