HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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realistic depiction of human figures
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use of linear perspective
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use of bright colors
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focus on religious themes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most important techniques that were established during the renaissance were sfumato, chiaroscuro, perspective, foreshortening and proportion. The advent of these techniques marked a significant shift in art history.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some examples of linear perspective in Renaissance Art are The Ideal City of Urbino, The Hunters in the Snow, The Tower of Babel, and The Arnolfini Portrait. These portraits show linear perspective in all its awesomeness from the dimensions of the city to the realistic proportions of the human body to its surroundings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Desiring to fascinate patrons Renaissance artist were greatly concerned with painting realistic scenes and linear perspective was the method they found to portray space and depth in art; this technique helped make their art all the more captivating.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1400s, the Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) reintroduced a means of rendering the recession of space, called linear perspective. In Brunelleschi’s technique, lines appear to converge at a single fixed point in the distance.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Renaissance brought forth realism as a by-product of art letting artists create many new types of realist emotional paintings including da Vinci’s work with the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and his use of Light and shadow in his paintings (Renaissance).