Each artist is listed with their dates place of birth some places that they worked their media the type of artwork that they made one or two most famous works and some art galleries where their works can be seen. Renaissance artists ended in the late 14th century 1370 and includes famous painters and sculptors. This was a period when europe underwent an astonishing renewal in the fields of fine art such as painting architecture sculpture and drawing artists like sandro botticelli and leonardo da vinci started straying away from religious works of art to embrace individualism nature.
The renaissance period emerged in italy in the late 14th century and reached its zenith in the late 15th century. The arts had quite a difficult time remaining important during the middle ages given all of the territorial struggles that were occurring throughout europe people living then had enough to do merely figuring. The renaissance a word which literally means born anew is a name we ve given to a period in western history during which the arts so important in classic cultures were revived.
Born in florence in 1500 his life was a mix of violence and supreme artistry which saw him imprisoned for looting and by contrast producing the famous golden saltcellar for cardinal ippolito d este. Benvenuto cellini was a sculptor and goldsmith. Renaissance sculpture benvenuto cellini.
The founder of renaissance sculpture was ghiberti whose masterpiece is the gates of paradise a pair of bronze doors for the florence baptistry the main panels of these doors comprise ten biblical scenes rendered with impressive realism including deep perspective. Renaissance painting and architecture were founded by masaccio and brunelleschi respectively. And when this eager delight in the then fresh and sensuous graciousness that is the mark of much classical work to the.
The revival of classical learning in italy which was so marked a feature of italian culture during the 15th century was paralleled by an equal passion for the beauty of classical design in all the artistic fields. Western sculpture western sculpture the renaissance. Renaissance art painting sculpture architecture music and literature produced during the 14th 15th and 16th centuries in europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature a revival of classical learning and a more individualistic view of man scholars no longer believe that the renaissance marked an abrupt break with medieval values as is suggested by the french.
Renaissance art is the painting sculpture and decorative arts of the period of european history emerging as a distinct style in italy in about 1400 in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy literature music science and technology renaissance meaning rebirth art perceived as the noblest of ancient traditions took as its foundation the art of classical antiquity but. Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions it is one of the plastic arts durable sculptural processes originally used carving the removal of material and modelling the addition of material as clay in stone metal ceramics wood and other materials but since modernism there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process.
