Renaissance Art
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Numerous massive stylistic changes in art produced a reaction throughout Europe and not merely in one school or region. Changes in the styles of artistic expression throughout history have reflected not only developments in materials and shifting patterns within the art world itself, but have also reflected changing circumstances in society at large. These patterns include political changes, historical movements, altered social conditions, changed economic circumstances, shifts in religious thinking, and so on. Such differences manifest themselves in new ideas an forms for painting, sculpture, and architecture, and one of the massive shifts in thinking came during the period now known as the Renaissance. We may think of the Renaissance as associated always with Italy and with Italian art, but the Renaissance had an effect in other regions of Europe as well, producing new types of works with new historical and aesthetic concerns. The Renaissance affected German artists as it did those in Italy. The Renaissance is a period seen as a rebirth of learning on the classical model. The modern conception of the Renaissance actually derives from the nineteenth century in the work of Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, who published a pioneering work in 1860 in which he saw the Renaissance as almost purely cultural, as the work of a small Italian elite pioneering a new attitude toward human beings. They now saw human beings as people who had suddenly acquired a new consciousness
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re the main battles of the "war of styles" took place during the first half of the fifteenth century. Two of the more important artists of the era were Matthias Grunewald and Albrecht Durer. Both died in 1528 and were probably of the same age, though only Durer's birthdate is known--he was born in 1471. Durer was internationally famous, while Grunewald remained so obscure that his real name was discovered only at the end of the nineteenth century--Mathis Gothart Nithart. Grunewald's fame is similar to that of El Greco in that it has developed only in this century. In the Northern art of his time he shows overwhelming power. One of his works is the Isenheim Altarpiece, painted between 1509/1510 and 1515 for the monastery church of the Order of St. Anthony at Isenheim in Alsace. It is now in the museum of the nearby town of Colmar. It is a carved shrine with two sets of movable wings, and it has three stages, or views. In the first and outermost, all the wings are closed. This shows "The Crucifixion." It is very medieval in that Christ's terrible agony and the desperate grief of the Virgin, St. John, and Mary Magdalene are apparent. The pitiful body on the cross has twisted limbs, countless lacerations, and rivulets of b
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