Early Renaissance Art
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The early Renaissance period of painting represents the period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe. The most active areas for painting during this era were Flanders (northern Europe) and Italy. During the later Renaissance period, art, literature, philosophy and architecture would focus on the increasingly secular and humanistic aspects of society, politics, and philosophy. However, during the early Renaissance, there was still a focus on religious themes and religious symbolism in the artworks of some of the greatest painters of this period. Though such distinctions are evident between early and late Renaissance artworks, early Renaissance paintings often depict the distinction from Byzantine Art which preceded the early Renaissance. They do so in the manner that they demonstrate a growing focus on anatomy and perspective. This analysis will compare and contrast paintings from three of the most significant painters of the early Renaissance: Paolo Uccello, Sandro Botticelli, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. One of the best painters of the early Renaissance was born in Florence, Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), (Early II, 9). Botticelli painted a number of works but one of his most famous is Portrait of a Young Man. The painting is tempera on panel, measuring 16 1/8” by 12 1/4” (Tansey 720). Painted during the late 1480s, Portrait of a Young Man demonstrates the increasing focus on perspective among early Renai
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30” by 20”, painted in 1488 (Tansey 719). Unlike the expressive psychological emotive value in Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man, Ghirlandaio’s portrait is coolly formal and its perspective is typical of many works before 1470 in that it is a profile. Instead of using sharp lines and emotion to convey his subject, Ghirlandaio uses this formal presentation to underscore the proud bearing and sensitive beauty of the aristocratic woman portrayed. The anatomy in the portrait is much less detailed than in Botticelli’s and value contrasts are used to highlight the figure more than the sharp lines and internal shading used in Portrait of a Young Man. Unlike Botticelli’s work, however, in this work we see the influence of Classical Greek and Latin art and culture on humanist artists during the early Renaissance. As Tansey reports, “In the background is an epitaph (Giovanna Tornabuoni died in childbirth) that is a quotation from the ancient Roman poet Martial”, (719). The painting also shows the customary profile perspective of most artists before Botticelli’s time. Further, it shows the attraction of many artists during the era to the aristocracy, including their wealth, their breeding, and their sensitive demeanor and proud bea
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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