Renaissance Paintings
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Renaissance art represents the best known traditional art movement which remains popular today, some 500 years later.
Indeed, its greatest contributors are still household names around the world and respected as highly as any artists of the more modern painting eras. This article aims to identify the most famous renaissance paintings and explain a little about each.
The Renaissance era covers many different changes across society, not just painting, and represents the transition from middle ages to modern day. The paintings of this era are respected and well known as a key factor of this. Renaissance art began in Italy and spread around Europe to become influential in many different European countries from 1400 to around the end of the 16th century.
Due to it’s excessive influence of the time, many paintings of the time featured religious depictions and symbolism. Sandro Botticelli’s Magnificat and Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love are examples of the typical styles used of the time.
The best known artists of the Renaissance period come from Italy, France, Netherlands, England, Northern Europe & Spain. Further research into these individual artists will uncover the most famous renaissance paintings. Other good examples of art from this time to study include Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, & The Vitruvian Man, Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, Pietà, David and Donatello’s Primavera & The Birth of Venus. The oil paintings of this time led directly to Baroque art, which followed onto the contemporary art forms that we have today. Its importance remains for all the see, and continues to inspire and attract many into art.
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